Making recovery happen for young people and local communities
Rethink and YoungMinds are pleased to announce the success of our joint bid to the Big Lottery Young People's Fund. The grant of £1.2m over three years will enable us to design and deliver a range of powerful and creative recovery based programmes targeting young people who are experiencing or caring for someone with severe mental illness.
Building upon our respective areas of expertise, YoungMinds will focus support to the 14-25 age group by offering regionally based weekly courses positioned as after school activities. Rethink will focus on the 19-25 age group by delivering weekly courses and residential recovery programmes.
Between January 2007 and December 2009 we will reach out to approximately 2000 young people living in the south east, south west and east midland regions of England by delivering a range of programmes and activities that enable young people to take control of their own recovery. We will deliver the only residential recovery learning programme for young people experiencing a mental illness in England and will also provide a unique recovery learning resource for sibling carers and friendship networks. A team of national and regional staff will be employed to provide inspirational recovery learning programmes in creative settings, establish mentoring and peer group support opportunities and design web based personal learning tools. As a result, we will enable young people to improve their mental, emotional and physical health, feel a sense of real achievement and begin making safe choices and plans for the future involving lifestyle, work and educational goals.
To help us get started and whilst we recruit project staff we have appointed Rachel Whale and Vanilla to deliver the first 5 months of development work. Rachel knows Rethink very well and was involved in the original bid submission. We believe that Rachel and her development agency Vanilla will deliver the initial targets within the project; helping us to shape the staff team, establish evaluation systems, engage with young people in the regions and begin marketing the project. Rachel can be contacted on rachel@vanillafreelance.co.uk tel: 07870 174607 or 02380 404954. For more information on Vanilla please visiti the website at www.vanillafreelance.co.uk
We know you will appreciate the value of this work and the wonderful opportunity we now have with the support of the Big Lottery to make a real difference to the lives of young people living with severe mental illness. If you would like to get involved or share ideas please get in touch with Rachel Whale or Jo Loughran (020 7330 9122). Find out about our job opportunities.
Best wishes
Jo Loughran (Rethink) and Barbara Herts (Young Minds)
Between January 2007 and December 2009 we will reach out to approximately 2000 young people living in the south east, south west and east midland regions of England by delivering a range of programmes and activities that enable young people to take control of their own recovery. We will deliver the only residential recovery learning programme for young people experiencing a mental illness in England and will also provide a unique recovery learning resource for sibling carers and friendship networks. A team of national and regional staff will be employed to provide inspirational recovery learning programmes in creative settings, establish mentoring and peer group support opportunities and design web based personal learning tools. As a result, we will enable young people to improve their mental, emotional and physical health, feel a sense of real achievement and begin making safe choices and plans for the future involving lifestyle, work and educational goals.
To help us get started and whilst we recruit project staff we have appointed Rachel Whale and Vanilla to deliver the first 5 months of development work. Rachel knows Rethink very well and was involved in the original bid submission. We believe that Rachel and her development agency Vanilla will deliver the initial targets within the project; helping us to shape the staff team, establish evaluation systems, engage with young people in the regions and begin marketing the project. Rachel can be contacted on rachel@vanillafreelance.co.uk tel: 07870 174607 or 02380 404954. For more information on Vanilla please visiti the website at www.vanillafreelance.co.uk
We know you will appreciate the value of this work and the wonderful opportunity we now have with the support of the Big Lottery to make a real difference to the lives of young people living with severe mental illness. If you would like to get involved or share ideas please get in touch with Rachel Whale or Jo Loughran (020 7330 9122). Find out about our job opportunities.
Best wishes
Jo Loughran (Rethink) and Barbara Herts (Young Minds)
