Application
Number
Name of
organisation
Service name
CCG area covered
Brief description
1
Cruse
Bereavement
Care (Craven &
Bradford Area)
MOSAIC II
Cruse Bereavement
Care, Craven &
Bradford Area
AWC CCG
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MOSAIC II
All three CCGs
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7
Little Lane Tai Chi
Group
City CCG
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9
Little Lane Tai Chi
Group, regular
exercise for older
women
Relate Relationship
Support Services
All three CCGs &
Craven
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All three CCGs
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18
Roshni Ghar
Roshni Ghar
21
Making Space
22
Bradford
Counselling
Services
Prism Youth
Project
Bradford and
Airedale Mental
Health Advocacy
Group
Bradford and
Airedale Mental
Health
Barnardo’s
Bradford & Airedale
Mental Health Carer
Support Service
Bradford Counselling
Services
City & Districts
CCGs
City & Districts
CCGs
Keighley and
Craven
All three CCGs
Click Here
15
Relate Bradford,
Relate Pennine,
Keighley & Craven
Family Action
Alma Street Project
(Alma Street
Project)
Family Action
Building Bridges
(Building Bridges)
Family Action
Children and Loss
All three CCGs
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Breathing Spaces
All three CCGs
Click Here
Volunteer Advocacy
and Befriending
All three CCGs
Click Here
Acute Inpatient Mental
Health Advocacy
Adults
Barnardo’s Bradford
Young Carers Service
Community Support
Agency – Mental
Health Team
Bradford BME Mental
Health Involvement
and Recovery Project
Bradford People First
Health Living Project
All three CCGs
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
City and Districts
CCGs
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5
12
14
24
26
28
33
40
Horton Housing
Association
45
Sharing Voices
Bradford (SVB)
46
Bradford People
First (healthy
living project (5
days))
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Click Here
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53
The Isis Project
for Women and
Children Limited
62
63
Domestic
Violence Services
Keighley
MIND in Bradford
66
Barnardo’s
67
Sacar
70
84
Bradford Rape
Crisis & Sexual
Abuse Survivors
Service
Bradford
Disability Services
Limited
Sacar
91
The Cellar Trust
92
Choice Advocacy
98
Bradford Cancer
Support
Girlington
Community
Association
People First
‘Healthy Me’
Keighley & Craven
Bradford
Bradford Bereavement
Bereavement
Support
Support
74
106
115
117
The Isis Project for
Women and Children
Limited – Mental
Health/Well-being
service for women
(and under 5’s)
DASH (Domestic Abuse
Services & Health)
Districts CCG
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All three CCGs
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MIND in Bradford
Existing Services
Wellness Recovery
Action Planning with
Young People
experiencing mental
health difficulties
The Autism Health
Engagement Project
Rape Crisis Sexual
Violence Services
All three CCGs
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All three CCGs
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All three CCGs
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All three CCGs
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Ideas For All (IFA)
City and Districts
CCGs
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Autism Works
All three CCGs
Click Here
The Cellar Trust
Personal Development
Programme
Advocacy for Better
Health
Supporting People
Affected by Cancer
Girlington Healthy
Communities Project
All three CCGs
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
City CCG
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AWC CCG
Click Here
All three CCGs
Click Here
Cruse Bereavement Care (Craven & Bradford Area)
To continue to provide support and information to bereaved (or pre-bereavement) children,
young people and adults resident in Craven and Bradford, responding to such requests in a timely,
efficient and consistent way, free of charge and not time-limited to a set number of sessions.
We do this through sound management, supervision and on-going training arrangements for
all aspects of the work. We operate from an office base in Skipton which includes two purposeequipped counselling rooms, one of which is equipped for work with children and young people, but
by arrangement with other organisations can offer suitable venues in other parts of the Area, or
where necessary for the client’s needs, in their own home.
The consistency and high standards of administration and record-keeping are currently
secured through 21 hours per week of paid staff, but we would like to increase this by another 6
hours. Otherwise leadership and management rests with volunteers who give much time in various
aspects as well as variously fulfilling the other roles of bereavement support worker, supervisor and
trainer. A principle of Cruse is that volunteers not be out of pocket for the work they do so travel
expenses are paid and this demand increasing resources because of the rural nature of the Craven,
Airedale and Wharfedale end of our Area
Mosaic ll
Mosaic II supports families whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse by enabling them
to gain knowledge regarding child protection procedures and obtain healthy coping strategies
following the disclosure of sexual abuse within their families.
We do this by offering counselling, complementary therapies, physical wellbeing sessions,
support work which is offered in a variety of ways to meet the clients’ needs. We offer training and
group work on various topics related to sexual abuse issues. We have found by offering holistic
support to clients it supports health promotion and illness prevention as clients achieve feeling less
isolated, value themselves, build self esteem and gain confidence which is conjusive to promoting
self care.
Clients accessing Mosaic services present with a huge variety of symptoms including; suicidal
tendencies, eating disorders, depression, agoraphobia, anxiety, PTSD also many clients harm
themselves as a coping mechanism to assist them in dealing with the feelings that arise from
memories of sexual abuse. We believe Mosaic II are working with adults who were not able to
access services as children and have now carried symptoms through into adulthood which impacts
their health and well being.
Mosaic is an independent registered charity clients voluntarily access our services
demonstrating a desire to make improvements to their life styles. All services offered are not time
limited so a client can come for as long as they feel they are gaining benefit from accessing Mosaic
services we also hold an open door policy which enables clients to return to Mosaic if they wish in
the future. All services offered are targeted at clients discovering how to take care of themselves
and valuing themselves as individuals. Mosaic is the only service which provides support to all
family members both male and female in this geographic area.
Little Lane Tai Chi Group, regular exercise for older women
The group would like to continue to run as an hourly exercise session, led by an experienced
tutor, for 45 weeks a year, aimed at older women in the BD8 and BD9 communities and held in Little
Lane Church and Community Hall (Little Lane/Duckworth Lane BD9).
The project supports health care and illness prevention by regular exercise through the
holistic approach of Tai Chi. The exercises improve balance and flexibility by strengthening and
stretching muscles, thereby helping to prevent falls. Deep breathing practices increase lung
capacity, improve stamina and resistance to respiratory infection. The regular exercise supports
heart health. The group promotes self-care and improved fitness through a positive approach to
mental and physical health in a friendly and sociable group. Participants are encouraged to walk to
the session, to develop a daily habit of exercises using some of those practised in the group session
and share concerns over, for instance, weight and general fitness. There are opportunities to share
health concerns with professionals in the field, through inviting visitors to the sessions.
Extra social value is added as the sessions are followed by a tea/coffee and listening
opportunity in the hall, enabled by volunteers from the church, of which Tai Chi group participants
may take advantage. Also, the sessions are taken to outside venues about three times a year, to
emphasise the pleasure of exercise in the open air and to provide an opportunity to visit no charge
leisure places in the district (e.g Tai Chi in the Mughal Gardens, Maningham Park followed by a visit
to the art gallery).
The grant is needed to cover tutor costs, hall rental, public liability and employer’s liability
insurance.
Relate Relationship Support Services
Relate Bradford and Pennine, Keighley & Craven wishes to continue district wide provision of
specialist counselling/therapeutic services with a relational focus, not duplicated elsewhere in the
district.
Offering interventions from ‘cradle to grave’ •Adult couple/ individual counselling •Psychosexual therapy •IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression (EOI to FTT, no outcome at time of this
application) •Children/Young People’s Counselling •Family Counselling •Group work with a
relational focus •Liaison/consultation to other professionals •Supporting clients into other relevant
support/ resources •Training/retaining highly skilled therapeutic workforce •Participating in local
networks, groups and boards, sharing best practice, influencing policy on family life/ relationships
Our proposal is to ask the CCGs to finance the provision of 5465 sessions out of a total
operational output of 7275 across all therapeutic disciplines enabling a timely response thereby,
maximising the early intervention and preventative benefits of our work. Half our work will be out
of work/school hours in both Relate centres and out-post facilities. Referrals have increased by 40%
since end 2009/10 and are currently: 20% from GPs, School nurses/health visitors 13%, Mental
Health Teams 11%, Social Workers 10%, Crisis Intervention 9%. We are aware that many of those
young people who use our services surprisingly fall below CAMHS thresholds despite the fact that
these cases are serious and complex; some choose not to use CAMHS.
Referrals from Looked After Care and young people leaving or on edge of care are
increasing. Commissions have historically helped us ensure services remain accessible to those who
are disadvantaged, hardest to reach and vulnerable. This work is complex with for example 44% of
referrals having client issues involving domestic abuse, 13% with known child safeguarding issues.
We encounter much more of these issues from those people who self- refer and are often the first
agency to hear about those at risk.
Alma Street Project
Funding will enable continuation and development of our existing Alma Street Project which
offers therapeutic support for children who have been sexually abused.
This Project provides individual therapeutic recovery work for children aged 5-17 years who
have been sexually abused, which: • Gives children the opportunity to tell their stories and explore
feelings such as guilt, shame, and worthlessness • Helps correct erroneous beliefs about self and
others resulting from abuse • Enables identification of early warning signals, support networks, and
safety strategies in order to prevent re-victimisation and promote satisfying and healthy
relationships • Eliminates or reduces symptoms specific to trauma such as re-experiencing the
traumatic event, avoidance and numbing, and increased anxiety and emotional arousal • Helps
children to identify and learn how to regulate their emotions, manage difficult and painful feelings
and develop appropriate coping strategies.
It also provides education and support to non-abusing parents/carers, enabling them to:
• Understand and meet the social and emotional needs of their children • Provide a stable and safe
home environment where risks of re-abuse are minimised • Work on rebuilding relationships
between non-abusing family members • Acknowledge their own emotional needs and explore how
these might be appropriately met • Feel less isolated and stigmatised.
Finally it provides consultancy to professionals, enabling them to: • Understand the social
and emotional needs of children who have been sexually abused • Highlight and take action to
address safeguarding issues • Plan effectively for children’s immediate and long-term needs.
We take a child-centred approach and assess the full range of needs a family bring to the
therapeutic process. We offer tailor-made packages of support which maximise outcomes for each
child and their family.
Building Bridges
The Family Action Building Bridges service supports parents affected by mental health issues which
are impacting on relationships with their children.
The service : • provides counselling and psychological therapies • supports the
engagement of service users with therapeutic work • works on relapse prevention by using
volunteer befrienders • supports service user engagement with other agencies including health,
social care and education • facilitates self help and peer support groups
The Clinical Commissioning Group currently fund an Engagement and Assessment Worker
that: • acts as the initial point of engagement facilitating access into the Building Bridges service •
works from community based settings with marginalised groups of parents with mental health issues
who may be out of touch with mainstream health services • undertakes holistic assessments with
service users and allocates cases to volunteer counsellors and befrienders • builds and maintains
referral pathways and partnership relationships between health professionals and the Building
Bridges service. • carries a caseload of more complex cases where there are significant
safeguarding and or issues of risk (such as multi agency involvement in child protection and CAF)
The Big Lottery currently funds (until July 2016) a Volunteer Coordinator to supervise a team
of volunteer counsellors and befrienders • Volunteer counsellors: work with parents to help
improve emotional and mental wellbeing and to strengthen parent/child relationships
• Befrienders provide one to one work and run self help /peer support groups enabling service users
to: • stay engaged with the Building Bridges service and wider health services • meet identified
goals, maintain positive change and prevent relapse into unhelpful/harmful behaviours • Work
towards social inclusion.
This service bridges the gap between adult mental health and children’s services working
closely with professionals from both sectors to achieve positive outcomes for families affected by
adult mental health issues.
Children and loss
Funding will enable continuation and development of our existing Children and Loss project
which provides a therapeutic recovery service for children/young people who have experienced the
death of a significant person in their lives and are struggling with the grieving process.
We aim to extend our service in the financial year 2013/14 to offer therapeutic work to
Looked After Children who are struggling with the of loss of their biological family as a result of their
reception into care. We can offer individual therapeutic recovery sessions which help
children/young people: • adjust to loss and change • share their memories • express their grief •
find a narrative/tell their stories • identify coping strategies
The project can also provide: • Support sessions, information and advice to parents/carers
helping them to support children/young people effectively • Whole family bereavement work •
Long-term work to children/young people who have complex loss and trauma issues •
Consultation for professionals and community organisations which: • Provides them with an
awareness of bereavement models • Assists in developing an understanding of issues affecting
bereaved children/young people and their families • Helps professionals identify ways of supporting
children/young people in their grief
In addition the Children and Loss project will: • Run two therapeutic groups per annum to
support children/ young people who are struggling with bereavement or loss in partnership with
local schools and/or where appropriate youth services • Facilitate an annual event in partnership
with Marie Curie bringing bereaved children/young people together to remember and celebrate the
life of the person they have lost • Network with other agencies offering work with bereaved adults
or services for children in other areas such as BBS, Cruise, and SOBS • Provide a holistic service, in
accordance with every child matters and local safeguarding policies and procedures.
Roshni Ghar
Continue to promote social-inclusion through community development work. Continue to
target and engage most underrepresented and marginalised BME women experiencing multiple
disadvantages due to mental illness, distress, and stigma, or who are vulnerable to developing
mental health problems in Keighley, who experience cultural, and language barriers, majority who
speak no English at all.
Continue to work with established partnerships, the female Psychiatric Ward, CMHT, CAMH,
GPs, Psychological Therapies, other professionals and deliver integrated packages promoting
independence through providing a safe space and a confidential one-to-one emotional support
service in the heart of the community from a range of outreach venues suitable for women. To
continue and achieve better health outcomes for women experiencing mental health illness, distress
and stigma, or who are vulnerable to developing mental health problems through providing them
with support during recovery to enable them and their carers/families to live normal lives as much
as possible through providing support with personal care and health promotion.
Help women and their families achieve better health outcomes through reducing social
isolation, providing information and meaningful daytime activities that are service user/community
led, developed and designed in consultation with them, and are culturally and socially appropriate to
meet their expressed needs. Provide a fun and learning environment for women to address issues
that impact on their mental health and well-being.
We do this through working in partnership with other mainstream and voluntary sector
agencies through using holistic approach that promotes wellbeing and recovery through
participation, inclusion, choice and maximizing these women’s potential through tackling
inequalities. In partnership with other agencies enable women to build confidence, self-esteem, and
skills through accessing education, volunteering and employment opportunities by enhancing their
financial situation and improving quality of life.
Bradford & Airedale Mental Health Carer Support Service
Making Space currently delivers a Mental Health Carer Support Service in Bradford & Airedale. The
service provides support to carers of adults with mental health problems, enabling carers to have
more choice and control over their own lives by providing them with practical and emotional
support and promoting their own physical and mental wellbeing.
The aim of the service is to:
- Promote provision for carers in line with national objectives
- Provide information about mental ill health and services
- Provide information on medications and side effects
- Intervene and advocate on behalf of families
- Help carers gain access to the services they need
- Support carers to participate in service development and planning arrangements
- Provide emotional support
- Support carers to develop coping strategies
- Promote carers own physical and mental wellbeing
- Identify and provide opportunities for carers breaks
- Develop and support self-help groups, activities, individual interventions to reduce social isolation
for carers
- Liaise with Mental Health service providers both in statutory and voluntary sector to ensure joint
working
- Promote carers assessments
- Provide awareness training sessions to other mental health staff anticipated to be providing
referrals, to assist such staff to understand the role of the Service and how to access the Service
- Work with the acute wards to target new carers
- Identify “hidden carers”
- Enable the experience of carers to influence service development and evaluation
- Have a system of measuring outcomes for carers, which values carers’ perspectives and enables
empowerment and choice
- Support carers to re-enter employment, education or leisure activities
- Support carers to access health services
- Target the BME communities with dedicated BME workers/ Asian language speakers
- Provide wellbeing and healthy living workshops
Bradford Counselling Service
Bradford Counselling Services is a long-established project, delivering generic counselling to people
from across the 3 CCG regions. These are delivered under three sub-project headings: • Off The
Record: For young people aged 18 and under on any issue • 1-2-1: For adults on any issue,
including relationship counselling • The Freedom Project: For women who have experienced
domestic abuse and/or violence.
Most of the counselling is delivered in-house at our main address, however, we also operate
a satellite service in Keighley under The Freedom Project heading, to enable women of limited
means referred via Keighley Domestic Violence Service to access counselling.
Prism Youth Project
Breathing Spaces project is based within a holistic Inner City Farm environment in Bradford
West and a Horticulture Training Centre in Keighley and works with young people and adults
affected by mental health. Both sites are in areas of high social deprivation and provide a
‘greencare’ environment using eco-therapy to promote good mental and physical wellbeing. We use
a range of interventions, including social and therapeutic horticulture and animal-assisted therapy in
an agricultural setting.
The project is promoted as volunteer opportunities to help reduce the problem of the
stigma and discrimination attached to mental health that beneficiaries strive to avoid. It provides
volunteering / mentoring opportunities for both young people and social excluded adults in the local
diverse community who benefit from the healing and calming qualities that the outdoor
environment can provide and enables those affected by mental health to break free from a clinical
environment which can be oppressive to their own recovery and wellbeing.
The project meets the ‘five ways to well- being’ through its programme and delivery
methods offering opportunities to develop new skills and build confidence and also offers
accreditation to those who chose to take this up. Young people and adults have been encouraged
to volunteer on the programme for as much or as little time as they felt they could give. There is
absolutely no pressure, we have found this the best approach which saw many volunteers thrive
and become fully involved in the daily tasks required to run a city farm and horticulture site which
also gives them a real sense of ownership.
Eco therapy is free of unpleasant side-effects and offers a cost-effective and natural addition
to existing treatments. Commissioned reports by mind have confirmed that participating in green
exercise activities provides substantial benefits for health and wellbeing.
Volunteer Advocacy and Befriending
Building on and maintaining the successful volunteer advocacy project funded by the PCT,
we also intend to provide volunteer befriending support to adults across the district that are socially
isolated as a result of experiencing mental ill health. The project will recruit, train and support
volunteers to provide quality user led advocacy and befriending.
This project will consist of two parts; • Volunteer Mental Health Advocacy: This current
project employs a Volunteers’ Organiser to recruit, train and support volunteers to provide advocacy
support to mental health service users within hospital and community settings. After completing the
training programme covering mental health awareness, boundaries, communication and advocacy
skills, our volunteers shadow trained advocates until competent to take on their own caseload. Most
of our volunteers have personal experience of mental health issues and their advocacy support
empowers service users to have more control in their recovery and future by enabling them to
express themselves, access information and services, explore choices and options, and defend and
promote their rights. On-going supervision, training and support ensures that volunteer advocacy is
to the same quality standard that we expect from our paid advocates. • Volunteer Befriending:
Using the same principles of recruitment, training and support as above we will work with a small
team of volunteers to provide a service to those who are isolated as a result of their mental ill
health. Training will be tailored to the principles of Befriending, and volunteers will be matched to
those in need aiming to alleviate isolation and provide assistance enabling the befriendee to move
forward in their life. Partnerships will be time-limited and goal orientated to ensure there is purpose
and outcome. Befrienders and befriendees will both benefit with improved life-skills, confidence and
self-esteem. In this project’s previous incarnation, Befriendees often went on to become volunteer
befrienders.
Acute Inpatient Mental Health Advocacy Adults
This project provides essential independent user led mental health advocacy to those
receiving inpatient services both at Lynfield Mount Hospital and Airedale Centre for Mental Health,
providing an essential safeguarding mechanism for voluntary patients who have no statutory rights
under MHA / MCA.
‘Advocacy is taking action to help people say what they want, secure their rights, represent
their interests and obtain services they need. Advocates and advocacy schemes work in partnership
with the people they support and take their side. Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and
social justice ‘ Advocacy Charter - Department of Health.
Advocates will: •listen to the needs of the patient in a non-judgmental and respectful way
•ensure a voice is given to their needs, views and wishes within their care and treatment •ensure
the needs of the patient aren't over looked or ignored as a consequence of their informal status
•enable people to understand their rights and choices in relation to their care • provide information
about previous and future care meetings and the progress of their case •enable people to express
their needs for discharge •provide appropriate information and signposting •provide an equitable
and accessible service.
By: •working with people as individuals to understand their situation • discussing their
options •liaising with professionals and other organisations around other issues affecting their
mental health e.g. physical issues or long term conditions which exacerbate mental ill health and
ability to make decisions •helping them communicate with their care team • attending ward
rounds and other meetings as appropriate •gathering information on their behalf •sharing
information with someone at a time and in a way that is appropriate to the individual • maintaining
records of advocacy involvement •maintaining a regular and physical presence on wards at both
sites.
Barnardo’s Bradford Young Carers Service
Young carers provide care and support to a family member who have a long term physical
illness, mental ill health, physical or sensory impairment or substance misuse issue. The support
provided by young carers is crucial to maintain individuals in the family home. There is a significant
risk that this support can have a negative impact on the long term health of the young carers.
The Young Carers service works with young carers and their families to: - address any
negative impact of the caring rule - support young carers to develop coping strategies to minimise
any future impact of caring role - liaise with school to ensure that school understands and
accommodates the young carers needs arising from their caring role - supports those cared for
(usually parents) to access services including treatment services - support those cared for to access
community based services - support young carers to access locally provided leisure and social
activities.
The service has a clear process of assessment, planning and review and adopts a whole
family, outcomes based approach. The direct work involves a range of interventions - Individual
work ( to young carer and parent) - Time limited group work - Mediation and advocacy Signposting and support to access other services - Parent training. Young Carers accessing support
from the service report a reduction in the negative impact of the caring role ( Apr-Jun 2013 68%, JulSep 70% reported a reduction in the negative impact of the caring role)
The current service supports over 250 young carers per year. The service also works with
other agencies to promote early identification and intervention and has worked with mental health
services, education, school nurses and substance misuse services. The service also plans to work at
primary care level to increase identification and support.
Horton Housing Association
The proposed project is an existing community/home based support scheme that addresses
our community’s mental and physical health issues. We do this by promoting independence, self
care, healthy lifestyles and illness prevention through a three tier approach –
• Weekly home visits by allocated support staff offering practical interventions to improve the
individuals health and well-being
• Provision of a crisis worker who will offer a rapid and assertive response
• Develop clients to offer peer support as ‘experts by experience’.
Promoting good health and well-being within their communities by integrating with existing
forums and developing such groups We achieve excellent outcomes for individuals in terms of
improved economic well-being, housing, educational/vocational skills, improved well-being and
recovery. We provide specialist provision of bi-lingual language skills and cultural knowledge. We
tackle gender and ethnicity specific health inequalities with our ability to engage directly with black,
Asian and minority ethnic groups. We deliver interventions to prevent or better manage common
conditions to this population, such as diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, depression, drug misuse,
harmful drinking and general poor health.
We understand that recovery is ‘contagious’. We will employ an Engagement Facilitator to
engage ‘experts by experience’ to act as peer mentors. Peer mentors will share knowledge,
experience and advice to current clients, develop community links and conduct well-being activities
at heart of the specific locality. We employ a robust assessment and support planning processes,
ensuring health issues are screened, assessed and addressed. We focus on access to appropriate
health interventions, treatment compliance, sustainable recovery and self-care.
Our outcomes, measured through our comprehensive ASPIRE quality tool, are based on the
Every Child Matters indicators and the Health and Well-being Strategy Outcome monitoring tool.
These outcomes are then fed back through clear monitoring systems.
Bradford BME Mental Health Involvement and Recovery Project
Proposal is a community development mental health project promoting Race Equality (JSNA2012
5.3.6) within mental health services, self care, integration, undertake health promotion into local
communities, achieve recovery and reduce reliance on services.
It will:
• Identify participants with complex needs, assist with issues and support access to services thereby
fostering integrated care and preventing hospitalisation
• Work with 100 people living with mental health diagnosis offering 1-1 befriending and full package
of complementary community based services.
• Work with 170 people experiencing mental distress
• Work across district with BME communities including SA, ACC, White minority (Irish), CEE, ASREF
and Faith
• Work across gender, age groups and LGBT individuals
• Work with 70 young people providing a transition into adulthood in 9 schools
• Sustain 15 culturally appropriate and accessible self help groups located within communities
• Deliver 5 self care/help courses per year (min 70 people) & minimum 20 volunteers
• Continue to pioneer use of media and social media formats targeting young leading to prevention
and reduction of self-harm.
• Develop existing partnerships with Bradford District Care Trust (BDCT), GP’S, Schools, third sector,
places of worship and BME business community
• Deliver additional social value e.g. volunteering, training and job experience leading people to
employment and reduced hospitalisation
• Support self advocacy
• Develop community based ‘Listening Imam/Alima and Priest’ project. Have recruited a female
Imam graduated from Cambridge Muslim College to offer pastoral support to south Asian Muslim
women.
• Provide support to statutory bodies undertaking research & development
• Support smaller groups including ASREF that deliver support to communities
• Deliver outcomes that contribute to wider health and well being e.g. gym group, walking, People in
the Dales etc.
• Development of mutual interest group, facilitate joined-up working and link into established
planning forums
• Deliver outputs/outcomes as identified in Q53 and Q54
Bradford People First Healthy Living Project
The aim of the project is to: Reduce health inequalities for people with learning disabilities
through self-advocacy, service-user participation and education. The project will run for 5 days per
week – approx. 35 hours. The work will be carried out by up to 12 people with a learning disability,
working as volunteers. They will be supported by a paid member of staff. The project will build on
its existing work and partnerships with other organisations in the area, and will expand on the 3 day
funding proposal also submitted.
Proposed work for the project will include: •Training for people with learning disabilities,
students, professionals and carers on range of health issues, including: o Annual health checks o
Healthy diet and healthy heart o Cancer screening o Diabetes o Learning disability awareness and
communication skills for professionals
We will also focus on health issues within the ‘Transitions’ group providing service-user
representation and consultation at events and meetings including: o Healthier Lives Sub-Group
(Learning Disability Partnership Board) o Closing the Gap/Additional Needs (BTHNHSFT) o Involving
you 3 (BDCT) • Running an annual Healthy Living Event for people with learning disabilities,
professionals and carers • Providing consultation re: information and service delivery – e.g. o Easy
read information o Health Improvement Action Plan o JSNA • Improving Patient Engagement and
experience through: o Working with, for example, PPG’s and Involving You 3. O Establishing and
implementing ways to improve service user involvement within PPG’s for people with learning
disabilities • Providing feedback to existing organisations regarding the experiences of people with
learning disabilities – e.g. Healthwatch
The existing Healthy Living Project are registered as ‘Healthwatchers’ - Our members are
quality checkers for the ‘Enter and View’ scheme. One of our members is Learning Disability
Representative on Healthwatch Board. Increasing accessibility and information regarding sports
services for people with learning disabilities.
The Isis Project for Women and Children Limited – Mental Health/Well-Being service for women
(and under 5’s)
Our application for funding is to enable delivery of our gender specific service to women in
recovery from mental distress, aged 18+. Our application will reflect “Full Cost Recovery” to ensure
all aspects of our quality service are delivered in the same holistic, time limited interventions which
reflect value for money and social inclusion in its broadest form.
Our service resonates with Third Sector Grant Objectives in that we currently engage with
women who may be marginalised, under-represented and stigmatised due to their mental ill health.
We are located in Shipley but take referrals from all three CCG areas, and feel our service resonates
with the anthem “about us but not without us” – as some of our staff team are survivors of mental
distress and can empathise with our service users.
We take a “hands on” approach to working with our clients. We encourage their
involvement in our service when they have reached that point on their recovery journey. We
continue to develop cross-sectoral partnership arrangements with other statutory and voluntary
services and implement mutual referral pathways into each other’s services.
Weekly input from a Health Trainer ensures women can access information and guidance in
achieving personal goals around health improvement e.g. – smoking cessation and our Cook and
Share sessions incorporate health eating plans to combat diabetes and heart disease. Our
Partnership/mutual referral pathways ensure the correlation between mental health, homelessness
and domestic abuse is acknowledged.
We share fast track access into Bradford Women’s Aid/Staying Put/Rape Crisis Services.
Offering Childcare is crucial. We wish to ensure that a crèche runs alongside our outputs.
DASH (Domestic Abuse Services & Health)
DASH (Domestic Abuse Services & Health) will provide a confidential, non-judgemental client
focused individually tailored community based support service to women affected by domestic
abuse. We aim to provide a holistic service offering both practical/emotional support and
information at point of crisis or for longer term support.
DASH will address short term crisis intervention needs initially to ensure safety and
protection providing a pathway to longer term emotional support services that can focus on building
self-confidence/self-esteem and resilience, breaking the cycle of abusive relationships.
This specialist domestic abuse service will be delivered by experienced floating support staff
with relevant languages including Urdu, Punjabi, Mirpuri, Czech, Polish & English. We will link in with
and signpost to other services within the VAW sector and those of partner agencies in both the
statutory and voluntary sector to create a comprehensive pathway of care from the point of contact
until such time that it is felt the client is ready to move on. This promotes engagement of vulnerable
clients with complex needs who will be given support to understand their options to enable them to
make informed decisions. Assistance will be offered in securing safe accommodation, accessing legal
help, claiming welfare benefits, dealing with immigration issues, substance misuse and mild mental
health issues.
DASH aims to support and empower clients in moving on from the trauma of domestic
abuse enabling clients to make long lasting positive changes so they can lead independent lives free
from abuse keeping themselves and their children safe hence, reducing the risk of repeat
victimisation.
MIND in Bradford Existing Services
We wish to continue the service Mind in Bradford provides to adults with mental health
problems across the Bradford District. This includes 3 evenings a week social support 5pm – 9pm for
people who are isolated and whose mental health or associated behaviour precludes them from
attending mainstream social venues.
We also provide both a men only and a women only day time session. Within this we
facilitate peer support groups to share information on staying well and managing conditions such as
OCD, depression and bi-polar disorder.
We also broaden people’s life skills by giving them the opportunity to work on reception,
tuck shop and kitchen duties. Up to 50 people attend any one session of which at least 20% are from
BME communities. We also deliver a three month rolling programme of group work which includes
activities known to improve mental and emotional wellbeing, such as singing, walking, drama and art
and also groups to help people manage their mental health such as Wellbeing Recovery Action
Planning, Recovery Support and Mindfulness. These groups are delivered at different venues across
the Bradford District. Over 250 individuals access our group work during a three month programme.
Guide-Line telephone helpline has well trained paid staff & volunteers, open 12 noon to 9
pm every day. Located in Shipley, it covers Bradford Metropolitan District. We answer between
seven and a half and eight thousand calls each year. We give long term & short term support by
phone, support through crisis, and give information and signpost to other organisations as needed.
Calls are confidential; people ring us with severe & enduring mental health conditions; suicidal
thoughts; self-harm; anxiety, depression often complicated by other issues. We get calls from carers
and professionals. Our email service Alex gives people an alternative way of accessing help.
Wellness Recovery Action Planning with Young People experiencing mental health difficulties
Wellness Recovery Action Planning is an evidenced based approach that promotes health
and wellbeing by helping people in their recovery with mental health difficulties. It is applicable to all
diversities as it is an individualised approach where a person writes their own recovery plan based
on what they identify keeps them well in everyday life. WRAP promotes health, self management
and empowers individuals to shape their experiences, achieve life goals/dreams, improving quality
of life and resilience.
Year One - a WRAP pilot project with Young People on a District Wide basis, including; •
Training of a Barnardo’s member of staff alongside CAMHS staff to facilitate the course. •
Recruiting 12 young people currently at transitional age between adult and child services and who
experience mental health difficulties. • These young people will undertake a 12 week WRAP course
providing them with a lifelong recovery plan. They will then attend a 5 day WRAP facilitators training
course preparing them to operate as peer mentors and co-facilitate future 12 week WRAP courses to
other young people across the District in Year 2. • Setting up and facilitating a peer support group
where experienced young people befriend and provide ongoing preventative support to their
cohort. • Benefits measured through Evaluation Research conducted by the BDCT (in kind) and
disseminated.
Year Two: • Professionals involved will roll out the approach across the 3 CCG areas to 12
young people in each area, with the support of the trained young people (46 young people in total
across 3 areas). • Further peer support groups established in each CCCG area. • Explore continued
roll out of this approach calling on other agencies to adopt this best practice, ultimately creating a
tier 1 preventative level diminishing the need to use Specialist Services.
The Autism Health Engagement Project
This Autism specific project will improve the health and wellbeing of adults with an Autism
Spectrum Condition (ASC) from the Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Districts. It will
involve the delivery of a social skills workshop, health and wellbeing workshops (2, one for men and
one for women) and a community links workshop, each delivered once a week, every week over a 2
year period from our site in the centre of Bradford.
We will work with health services across the 3 CCG districts, inviting representatives to
speak about various health topics, whilst also arranging supported group visits to services, in order
to increase access for this client group. We will also support participants to research social
opportunities within their local community and organise group visits in order to increase confidence,
social inclusion and independence.
The social skills training will underpin the success and sustainment of this engagement. The
project will be delivered by a qualified facilitator and two skills mentors who each have an indepth
understanding of ASCs through training and experience of working with adults on the Spectrum. The
project will be supported by volunteers from the 3 CCG areas who will receive specialist ASC training.
This project will reach and engage with this underrepresented and marginalised group to increase
confidence and self-esteem, teach and further develop essential social skills such as communication
and social interaction, develop awareness and understanding of their disability and health issues,
increase this client group’s knowledge of what services and opportunities are available across the
Bradford District, in order to increase social inclusion and improve their long term health and
wellbeing.
This project will not only increase the independence of participants but also that of their
parents and carers, many of whom have previously received no support, thereby improving their
health and wellbeing.
Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Survivors Service
Provide specialist sexual violence services both within a safe, confidential, accessible Bradford Rape
Crisis Centre and in partnership with health and voluntary sector organisations in community
settings.
• Specialist BAME Jyoti Counselling • By Qualified BAME Rape Crisis(RC) counsellors • 880 sessions,
88 assessments per year • Target group: BAME women & girls (W&Gs) Art Therapy • Qualified RC
Art therapist • 132 sessions per year • W&Gs Helpline & txt • Two experienced RC helpline
workers • Mondays 11am – 2pm Fridays 1.30-4.30pm = 92 sessions per year • W&Gs & referring
agencies Specialist BAME Jyoti Helpline & txt • Two experienced BAME RC helpline workers •
Wednesday 1-4pm Thursdays 1-4pm = 92 sessions per year • BAME W&Gs & referring agencies
Specialist BAME Jyoti Shared Support group • Qualified BAME RC Counsellor & qualified Art
therapist • 45 sessions per year • BAME W&Gs RASW Shared Support group • Two qualified RC
counsellors • 45 sessions per year • Refugee/ asylum seeking W&Gs Bevan Healthcare Partnership
• Qualified RC counsellors • Counselling: 308 sessions & 44 assessments per year • Advocacy: 44
sessions • Drop-in support: 44 sessions • Refugee/asylum seeking women, Homeless women,
Women exiting prostitution • Bradford College Partnership • Qualified RC counsellor • f2f support
sessions: 44 sessions per year • Young women Naye Subah Partnership • Qualified BAME RC
counsellor • f2f support sessions: 88 sessions per year •S Asian women experiencing mental health
difficulties • Bradford Working Women’s Service Partnership • RC staff • Deliver sexual violence
training to WWS staff • Provide consultancy for WWS staff as appropriate • Develop referral
pathway • Women selling sex & Women exiting prostitution • Sexual violence workshops • RC
staff • 4 workshops per year • General Public, BAME communities & Staff in agencies • Additional
Option for the CCGs to consider: Core counselling service • Qualified RC counsellors • 880
sessions, 44 assessments per year • W&Gs
Ideas for All (IFA)
Funding will develop a recently established partnership of user led disabled people
organisations that in turn will deliver a diverse range of services that will address many of the CCG
Strategic Objectives including: - • Transforming planned care and long term conditions • Reducing
health inequalities and increasing health promotion • Tackling health inequalities through
prevention, integration and partnerships •
Improving patient safety and experience, improving
engagement, • Improving outcomes for people with long term conditions • Improve the well -being
and health of our population.
IFA partners have a proven and successful track record across the district of delivering
services for disabled/vulnerable people, carers, families and the communities they are part of,
including: - • Advice (Welfare Rights) • Signposting & telephone helpline • Specialised
Equipment to support Independent Living • Peer Support, befriending & Self Help • Advocacy •
Community Development, Engagement & Participation (Including to, hard to reach groups,
communities & individuals) • Organisational and group support • Accessible Information
Exchange/Sharing (Including public meetings, events, newsletters, website and social media –
embracing the five principles of accessible information for disabled and vulnerable people) •
Networking with Statutory Agencies and Professionals • Volunteering Opportunities - including
formal & informal training & skills development.
Funding will enable IFA to: - • Develop and deliver services throughout targeted
communities within all three CCG areas • Build capacity • Identify, develop and make efficiency
savings • Explore innovative ways of working through the appointment of a dedicated development
worker
IFA outcomes: - • To develop and create a local united VCS Disabled People Led
organisation and social enterprise • Employment of a diverse and experienced staff team, of 8 FTE
posts • Involvement and support of over thirty (30) volunteers most of whom have some form of
disability or long term illness. • Training, Peer Support & Employability opportunities for volunteers
and placements. • IFA Partners are Membership Infrastructure Organisations • Providing services
that meet the CCGs priorities.
Autism Works
This project is specifically for individuals aged 18+ with an Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC)
who often have a learning disability and/or mental health condition and also have various underlying
health conditions as a result of their disability such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and drug
and alcohol abuse and other associated health conditions including epilepsy, dyslexia, dyspraxia.
We will deliver an employment programme one day per week, 5 hours per day over 52
weeks. This will be a rolling programme and no time limits on participation, in order to meet
individual needs. This will make the project as inclusive and accessible as possible for our client
group. The programme will include topics such as creating a CV, job search, completion of
application forms and preparation for interviews, however we will adopt an Autism specific
approach thereby making this project very different to other generic mainstream or disability
employment programmes.
Our Workshops will be centred around essential social skills training and involve role-play,
interpreting Job Descriptions/Person Specifications and matching these to the participants’ skill
base, discussions around the impact work can have on a young person with an ASC and strategies to
deal with these issues and also exploring skills, abilities, strengths and areas requiring support, in
order to create individual ‘Work Passports’ to be taken into the workplace and shared with
employers.
In addition to the employment workshop, we will provide one-to-one personalised support
with ‘Work Orientation’ visits, visits to external agencies such as the Job Centre, sourcing work
placements, volunteering and employment opportunities, travel training, attending interviews,
benefits advice, implementing individual strategies for maintaining employment and ongoing
support for participants in their roles.
We will also provide essential ASC Awareness training for employers and work colleagues,
along with ongoing advice, support and guidance in order to support sustained employment.
The Cellar Trust
This programme supports individual from referral, however poorly, to where they can make
choices about what comes next in their life and have capacity and ability to achieve it. Only criteria:
wanting to try. Recruitment Aim: Engage with as many as possible.
• Referral processed. Client contacted by phone to establish rapport/ make
appointment./Aim: minimise DNA. • Majority clients have significant functional issues -service must
start at their level. • Key worker conducts initial discussion ascertains client needs, familiarises with
service, Informs of parameters. Checks risk issues. Gains commitment to participate. • No
therapeutic work undertaken. • Service agreed with a named start date maximising chances of
follow through. Service includes practical, ie. an education class or skillshop session /next
appointment with worker. • Inappropriate referrals signposted to other services.
Delivery/progression aim: Client control. • Modular approach facilitates bespoke packages •
Service builds incrementally matches progress. Graded exposure to problems. • Max two sessions
week in skillshop before adding voluntary work in community. •Education classes extra to two
sessions. Numeracy, Literacy to Level 2, ITQ1 delivered by Shipley College • WRAP / Beating the
Blues, therapeutic programmes and Adult Directions, guidance added as needed. • One to ones
support clients in all and develops self awareness and self care through increasing awareness and
better self management skills. • Progress measured and recorded through client driven five step
action planning process, case notes, PHQ9 and Sunshine tool. Exits: Aim Sustain Achievement •
Outputs : voluntary work in community, in house education courses, further / higher education and
referral to our employment service. • Outcomes: manage mental health better / sustain
improvement in functioning • Negotiated tapered support at exit ensures client sustain activity
before case closed. • Link back to clinical services for clients leaving for other reasons.
Advocacy for Better Health
To improve the health of people with learning disabilities, autism and Asperger Syndrome
through the provision of 40 hours of professional advocacy (per week). Advocates will achieve this
through individual work with referred partners.
Referrals can come in from any source including self referrals. Advocates ensure peoples
rights to service are upheld and promote independence ,choice and control, ensuring information is
accessible, the individuals voice is heard, and they are fully involved in making important decisions
about their lives.
The more detailed objectives of the project are: *improve access to health care-eg
facilitating communications with healthcare professionals, *improve healthcare outcomes-eg
ensuring joined up heath and social care agency provision *encourage healthier lifestyles *tackle
the causes of poor physical and mental health including; poor or inappropriate housing, ensuring
adequate personal support in the community, safeguarding, improving parenting skills and support,
financial security, challenging poor practice. *Current NHS funding has also paid for 25% of the
organisations core costs. This application also includes those costs which relate to management and
supervision, running costs and our input to several key strategic groups such as the Adult
Safeguarding Board and sub-groups, Partnership Board and sub-groups, the MCA local
implementation group.
Supporting People Affected by Cancer
To provide emotional, psychological, social support and practical help to cope with anxiety,
treatment and living with and beyond a personal diagnosis of cancer or that of a loved one. To
ensure that the right support is delivered at the right time ensuring that all identified needs are met
following a holistically assessment of a client’s individual needs.
This assessment also enables the identification of clients who are palliative and ensures that
those clients have, according to their prognosis, a timely response to their needs, access to all
services and are supported holistically through illness and bereavement.
Our centre provides a welcoming calm environment for all those affected by a cancer
diagnosis. We will provide a listening ear, face to face and on the telephone. One to one support will
enable clients to express their fears and concerns in a safe, non-clinical environment. We will also
offer flexible client focused groups and classes so clients can gain mutual support from each other
whilst participating in an activity to enable them to learn coping skills, keep healthy and learn new
skills. We will provide information enabling clients to make informed decisions contributing to
self-care, overcoming hurdles and to gain the knowledge required to help them and their families
now and in the future. We also provide the practical solutions to issues and signpost to other
services and support.
We will visit community centres and GP practices and work in partnership with health
professionals to raise awareness of cancer and to promote Cancer Support Services. To enable
cancer patients and their family, if appropriate, to attend appointments at the hospital and support
centre we will provide a supportive, timely, friendly, very cost effective and efficient transport
service.
This project funds the core of our support services and whilst enabling us to find funding for
the delivery of welfare rights advice, counselling and complementary therapies by other income
sources.
Girlington Healthy Communities Project
Girlington Healthy Community Project will have a holistic approach to address inequalities in
health and work with the most deprived communities ( Health also highly deprived on a national
basis) in Toller Ward – especially the Girlington Neighbourhood.
We, with our partners will; 1. Educate, inform and encourage people to take better control
of their own health and well-being, 2. Deliver services that enable the community to experience first
hand tools to help them to do so, 3. Encourage people to get involved in volunteering and educating
and informing the wider community about self-care and prevention against ill-health, 4. Develop self
help groups, 5. Develop an effective referral system with GP and other health professionals, 6. Seek
out isolated people and ensure that they are engaged with to tackle mild to moderate mental ill
health, 7. Tackle obesity in the community.
In order to achieve our objectives we will arrange; 1. Information sessions on health matters,
2. Confidence building sessions, 3. Weight management workshops, 4. Healthy eating classes to
teach, children, young mums as well as older people on how to cook and eat well on a budget
(because of economic deprivations and lack of disposable income / winter poverty), 5. Exercise and
fitness classes, 6. Yoga and relaxation sessions, 7. Offer non- medical intervention at Local GP
practices, 8. Quarterly Health Forum type of Health events for service providers and communities to
get together.
‘Healthy Me’
To provide a residential model of service for young people/adults with learning disabilities using
Henshaws Society for Blind People campus in Harrogate. The 5x 5 day residential will focus on
teaching individuals how to shop, prepare easy and healthy meals combined with fun exercise. The
rationale is by teaching individuals to shop and prepare healthier option meals this will reduce
health inequalities across the district and tackle the CCG’s priorities of obesity and heart related
diseases.. We will also employ a health care support worker to coordinate the residential service
and provide health care training to schools and colleges across the district, focussing on Nutrition
Good fat – bad fat Sugar & Salt Intake Bone Health Diabetes Epilepsy & Seizures.
Bradford Bereavement Support
Bradford Bereavement Support (BBS) provides a free, high quality, bereavement counselling
service throughout the Bradford District to people aged 16 and over. We deliver support within the
heart of the community offering social value and promoting improved mental wellbeing and selfcare. Our well-publicised self-referral process provides easy access to bereavement counselling.
This accessibility seeks to engage under represented and marginalised communities: those on low
incomes, vulnerable adults and those with disabilities.
We work to the BACP ethical framework to ensure the safety and quality of our services,
providing professional supervision and training. We are the only local, community based
bereavement counselling service where Colleges of Further Education place counselling diploma
students for work experience. This has proved to be an effective partnership resulting in the
recruitment of high quality counsellors.
Feedback from evaluation forms is excellent. Over the past two years the majority of clients
reported improvement in mental health and wellbeing. We have the use of 3 well-appointed
counselling rooms. The premises are accessible to those with mobility difficulties. We also have
access to low cost premises city wide. Clients are assessed by our experienced assessment
counsellor then allocated to one of our counsellors. Telephone counselling is available to those
unable to access face to face counselling, enabling the isolated elderly, in particular, to receive
appropriate support. We have 13 diploma qualified counsellors specifically trained in telephone
counselling skills.
The waiting list currently stands at 6 weeks - much shorter than the NHS. GPs are enabled to
signpost clients for early intervention where indicated. 84% of our clients were referred by GPs
during the period April 2012-March 2013. We are well established after 29 years in the Bradford
district. Counselling is also, unlike that of the NHS, not time limited. Evening and weekend
appointments offer maximum flexibility to clients.