Community Options is a registered charity working in the field of mental health. Established in 1990, the aim of the charity is to support people with severe and enduring mental health needs to live in the community. Critical to the way we work are our values: Be Positive; Respect People; Be Flexible; Embrace Diversity; Be Inclusive; Promote Recovery; Learn Continuously and Work Together. These are the foundation to providing flexible support to meet the unique needs of each of our clients and achieving our MISSION, “to enable people with mental health needs to work towards recovery and lead valued lives in the community.”
All our work is focused on our commitment to the belief that people who have experienced mental health challenges can and often do recover.
The organisation has:
- Six registered residential care homes;
- 1 Older adults project
- 2 Continuing care projects
- 3 Adults with dual diagnosis projects (mental health issues and co-occurring issues with drug or alcohol misuse) - clients are expected to require support from these services for between 6 and 24 months
- Five shared supported housing schemes;
- 1 Older adults
- 4 Adults - clients are expected to require support from these services for up to 2 years
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- Three Community Support Services staffed by Support Time and Recovery Workers;
- Bromley and Greenwich teams support clients who are referred through secondary care providers
- A significant number of clients in these services have additional needs e.g. physical impairments, issues around alcohol and drug misuse
- Tower Hamlets team supports clients who are referred through primary care providers or self-refer (Support, Advice and Recovery Service)
- The service works with particular ethnic groups who find it difficult to access mental health services e.g. Bengali and Somali communities
- Service User Involvement Project;
- Supports service user groups to vocalise their thoughts on mental health services
- Provides training and development activities for service users
- Links with other service providers
- Provides information to service users
- Developing a service user involvement strategy for the borough
- Supporting people who use services to attend local forums and participate in discussions concerning mental health service developments
- Training and consultancy service;
- A range of training programmes on recovery, person centred approaches
- Self-development training courses for service users
- Mental Well-being in the workplace
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