Working with our community networks, we offer a range of one to one and outreach support projects to help people experiencing mental health problems to move forward in their recovery.
Our aim is to deliver recovery and wellbeing opportunities for people experiencing mental ill health and other support needs, so that they can achieve their hopes and ambitions.
We work individually to empower people to access the solutions they need for recovery, independence, and progression towards happy, healthy lives.
Wherever you are on your recovery journey, we’re here to help.
I would recommend peer support work to others because it has really helped me pass a difficult part of my life. I learnt about strengths that I didn’t know or believed I had. I have taken away confidence and ways to continue to support myself and I am so grateful.
Support for people struggling with binge eating disorder.
Binge eating disorder (BED) is a mental health problem characterised by regular episodes of binge eating. You might feel unable to stop eating, even if you want to, and you might rely on food to make you feel better. You might also use food to hide difficult feelings. People with BED experience a loss of control and eat large quantities of food over a short period of time. These episodes can feel chaotic, uncontrollable and highly distressing.
What does the service provide?
EMBER is a binge eating project delivered by Cornwall Mind, the NHS Adult Eating Disorder Service and Pentreath Recovery College.
The project combines 1-1 support with a caseworker alongside a specially designed course that includes CBT, compassion focus, mindfulness, nutrition, psychoeducation and body image work. Through reflective exercises and peer support, participants are enabled to develop alternative healthy coping strategies and more positive thinking.
Our aim is to deliver recovery and wellbeing opportunities for people experiencing mental health problems and binge eating disorder, so that they can achieve their hopes and ambitions.
Funded by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cornwall Mind and RSPCA Cornwall have joined together to deliver a pilot project to support people affected by Noah Syndrome, a complex mental health problem known as animal hoarding disorder.
Animal hoarding is when you keep too many animals to provide proper care for. You might have trouble noticing that this lack of care causes harm to the animals. This could include the animals not having:
Often, at this time, the person experiencing animal hoarding is overwhelmed but does not seek support. This not only impacts the welfare of the animals in the property but also the person’s own health and wellbeing and can even affect those around them such as family, friends and neighbours. Very often, serious hoarding will lead to the animals being removed and to legal action, both of which impact on the mental health of the owners.
You might experience animal hoarding on its own, or alongside other types of hoarding. The reasons behind hoarding animals are very complicated. Those of us who hoard animals can often:
The Noah Project provides wellbeing support for people in both the early and late stages of animal hoarding. The project will address the underlying cause of hoarding and encourage animal ownership that is healthy, safe and sustainable.
To make a referral to the Noah Project, please contact RSPCA Cornwall.
Funded by Cornwall Community Fund, National Lottery and RSPCA Cornwall Branch.
We’re experiencing a high demand for this service, so we are not currently able to take referrals.
Cornwall Mind provides adaptable and creative person-centred support for people, supporting them in their mental health recovery. Peer Support Workers use their own experience of recovery to inform their professional practice and work closely with individuals on a one-to-one basis.
Peer Support Workers will help create a Wellbeing Plan to support individuals in identifying what is important to them and what will help in their mental health recovery journey. They help develop a strong bond of trust and support the person in their recovery to achieve goals, assist with signposting and supporting them to access community activities.
NHS Rehab Peer Support – Funded by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as part of Mental Health Transformation
Supported self-help is a free, 6-week guided programme. We give you the materials to understand and manage your feelings. And we call you regularly to give you support.
You don’t need a GP referral to sign up for supported self-help.
This is a one-to-one guided self-help service, not a counselling service. But our practitioners do use counselling based skills in their support. It incorporates some Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) style tools but also provides other kinds of support.
Once you’ve signed up, we’ll get in touch to talk about the issues you’re dealing with. If supported self-help is right for you, together we’ll agree a programme of support. This can cover any of the following:
Cornwall Mind, Pentreath and Rethink Mental Illness are working together to provide the mental health and social wellbeing support element of this wider project to help people develop the resilience, resources and skills they need to transition out of homelessness.
With a focus on the Five Ways to Wellbeing, the Recovery Supporter provides practical advice and support to clients, supporting them to achieve and maintain a rich and meaningful life.
The aim is to deliver recovery and wellbeing opportunities for clients with mental ill health and other support needs, so that they can achieve their hopes and ambitions.
Referrals through NHS Health For Homeless, Cornwall Housing Ltd or other housing providers.
Next Steps – Funded by Cornwall Council
In partnership with Community Energy Plus, our Mental Wellbeing Caseworker works with people experiencing mental health difficulties and fuel poverty. Using a psycho-social model, they support people struggling with their mental health, empowering them to take control of their own recovery. The project provides whatever support is needed in order that people can engage with the actions in their wellbeing plan.
The primary objective of this project is to provide the support needed for participants to engage effectively with their energy advisor, with the aim of improving fuel poverty.
Referrals through Community Energy Plus only.
Redress- Funded by Community Energy Plus
This project provides an independent, supportive and solution focused forum for the Peer Support Workers embedded within NHS Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust. It provides liaison between the Peer Supervision Group and clinical teams, communicating challenges and solutions.
Cornwall Mind will also develop a reflective report to support and inform the development of Peer Support within the Trust for the future, and also work to develop capacity alongside the growth of Peer Support roles.
This project is for Peer Support Workers only.
Peer Support Worker Supervision Network – Funded by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sign up with your email address to receive monthly news and updates from Cornwall Mind. You can unsubscribe at any time.
