Our carers specific work promotes the health and wellbeing of mental health carers by providing opportunities for carers to access their rights and entitlements and mutual support. Our support aims to promote recovery by recognising and building on the strengths and resilience needed to meet the challenges faced by a mental health carer.
We have a specific commitment to making our service accessible and welcoming to carers from hardly reached groups including Glasgow's Black and Minority Ethnic Communities.
The Carers Support Project operates on a city wide basis across Glasgow. Carers workers are based within our Service centres promoting partnership working externally with carers centres and allowing carers easy access to the service centres health and well being opportunities and forums.
Support Offered
Workers provide individual support to carers, listening to carers concerns and helping them to identify their priorities for action. Workers facilitate group opportunities allowing carers to meet and share knowledge and experience of the caring role specifically in relation to mental health.
Support aims to build on the strengths and resilience of carers by providing the knowledge and information carers need to access the opportunities they want to assist them in the caring role, and to promote their own wellbeing and development.
The Project links closely with the Carers Development Worker to ensure carers are supported and encouraged to participate in networks and forums. In particular Glasgow Mental Health Carers' Central Forum where carers are supported to participate as equal partners in care with service providers and to influence service development and planning.
Please see leaflet on how to access the carers services
Any enquiries should be made to:
Shelley Paterson
St Andrews By The Green
33 Turnbull Street
Glasgow G1 5PR
Tel: 0141 552 5592
email: s.paterson@gamh.org.uk