Helping our communities and volunteers to improve our beautiful borough - pitch by 29th March 2023
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TRC seeks to develop a website and quarterly newsletter to provide self-help tools, online support and educational resources about addiction and recovery for those struggling with substance misuse.
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The design and development of a website to support and extend the work of TRC. The website will look to provide: * an online library of educational and self help resources * access to online support from a Psychotherapist specialising in addiction * Links to other local support services * a Peer Led Recovery Community A unique aspect of the project is to provide an online talking therapy service to those unable to attend or utilise support groups due to physical, mental or hearing difficulties. To produce a quarterly newsletter to disseminate information relevant to TRC's work. The newsletter will extend the education about substance misuse, addiction and recovery to the wider population in the catchment area and those not engaged in the online community. The newsletter will help to: * End social stigma surrounding addiction * Develop a thriving recovery community * Encourage communication between the professional and lay community Launch Party, Bench Unveiling ,
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Why it's a great idea:
The website and newsletter will support the talking therapy service's already being delivered by TRC. Addiction does not discriminate between race/ethnicity/age/gender/socio economic status. TRC therefore does not restrict its target audience reflecting the in discriminatory nature of addiction. We already offer a closed Facebook group for those currently accessing our service's. The website will enable us to: * Offer support to family/friends who often feel a sense of abandonment by the current service provision. * Contact hard to reach communities Eg. Hard of hearing, those with social/generalized anxiety disorders, physical disabilities. * A discreet form of therapy for those inhibited to access support due to personal, professional or social concerns. * Personalized programs of support to enable the individual to flourish and maximise their potential. * Online Substance Abuse training for employers * Access to substance misuse resources for the wider community
Steps to get it done:
Launch Party to promote project in local community Invites to be sent to Everton in the Community, Sefton CVS, Local MP's, National Lottery, GP's, local business owners
Location Southport
About the space
Merseyside contains wards in the top 50 deprived districts in England. A clearly established social gradient links deprivation and life expectancy. The differences in life expectancy can be partly explained by unhealthy lifestyles, with particular relevance to drug and alcohol abuse. This deprivation link is firmly entrenched in Merseyside.
Council
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
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Helping our communities and volunteers to improve our beautiful borough - pitch by 29th March 2023
How will the money be spent?Total £3,097
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Total £3,097
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VolunteerTRC is a community interest company aimed at providing sustainable support, education and coping skills to those struggling with all forms of addiction. The focus is to enable the individual to fluorish in recovery in a non-judgemental and open environment.
Formed in February 2019, TRC already provides a Talking Therapy service based on honesty, individual responsibility and empowerment. Weekly group sessions are run and facilitated by Dawn Gadsby, a Psychotherapist specialising in addiction and sexual trauma. Dawn also has extensive experience of working with those in addiction in both a group and an individual basis. She is further qualified to deliver meditation and mindfulnes workshops.
The Talking Therapy service provided by TRC is hence holistic and multi-dimensional and totally distinct from any other model.
TRC recieved a National Lottery grant in September 2019 to enable it to establish its own premises and expand its work. Beyond a Talking Therapy service TRC looks to end the stigma and isolation felt by those in addiction and uniquely to provide support and advice to family/friends of those suffering in addiction with the aim of ending the sense of helplessness often felt by those close to the addict.
TRC is already receiving referrals from the Hospital and Alcohol Liasion Team at Southport and Ormskirk General Hospital and support from local GP services.
TRC has also established links with Everton FC's award winning charity Everton in the Community to provide a similar service in the South Sefton/Liverpool area.
Project Owner: The Recovery Circle C.I.C. The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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