You Don't Have To Face Mental Health Challenges Alone

We Are Aware is a lived-experience peer community in North Somerset, creating connection, activities and practical support for people living with mental health challenges

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We Are Aware

We are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company based in North Somerset

We support over 100 individuals with long term mental health conditions directly through groups and activities

We raise awareness for mental health, suicide prevention and wellbeing through staging events, innovations and building partnerships with other organisations

If you are in distress and need support

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What We Are Aware Do....

We support an ever-growing mental health lived experience peer community through a range of groups, activities and points of contact.

We listen to those we support and provide them with the groups and activities they want and need- putting those we support at the centre of our person-centred support.

These are individual people, with their own paths. We are only here to support them on these paths.

We believe in the untapped wealth of knowledge and experience in the peer community- the power to support each other and realise none of us have to be alone.

We were approached during the pandemic by several lived experience individuals across North Somerset living in the community, who were feeling isolated, abandoned and "kept at arm's length" by services.

We have worked through Covid, to provide what connection we could, as as lockdown passed, feedback from those we support asked us to keep going.

There is so much more we can do.

We want to do more, support more, and make more of a difference. This will always require more funding!

To find out more about our groups and activities click below

Groups

Building Partnerships

We enjoy working with other organisations. It is an opportunity to share skills; publicise each other's work; and demonstrate the value of connecting!

We like the opportunity to promote services that already exist and the good work they do

Involvement in the Community

We appreciate the importance of community involvement. Our events aim to be positive experiences to promote and provoke the conversations around mental health.

We want people to be involved. We want the community to be involved. It is the awareness to look out for each other which will help us all

Creative Innovations

We want to make our events positive. We hope to catch people's imagination and interest.

We want the mental health conversations to continue long after the event has ended.

We are also always looking for ideas with a legacy that will endure and continue to keep mental health talked about and supported

224 YouthZone TalkingPoints 1-3

Benches number 7, 8 and 9 in the TalkingPoint family have recently been installed at the 224 Youth Zone in Bristol. This is the 19th OnSide youth hub and the first in the South West!

Great to see the benches in situ.

To find out more about the TalkingPoint project click on the link