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Difficult times such as these may have an effect on our mental health and wellbeing. Our Peer trainer Hannah has created some videos to help you support your own mental health and wellbeing from home. These videos include tips and techniques to staying well.
Barnet Voice for Mental Health (BVMH) was started by Elsie Lyons in 1994 as the first mental health ‘Service-User Group’ in the borough. Elsie and her fellow inspiring Founding Members built Barnet Voice upon the strong belief that people who live with mental health issues or distress day-to-day can harness their rich experiences to design, deliver and improve mental health services in Barnet. Barnet Voice for Mental Health became an Independent Organisation in 1998, run by and for people with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Historically, Barnet Voice was closely involved with the design and development of mental health services with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust and in shaping the way in which ‘service user involvement’ was integrated into services in Barnet; this included helping them to decide which services to start, taking part in consultations about changes to services, delivering training to staff and sitting on panels for the recruitment of mental health staff. Barnet Voice also ran their own innovative peer-run crisis house, Kaya House, and delivered peer support with people who were staying in mental health wards in Barnet.
In October 2017, Barnet Voice members voted to join Inclusion Barnet; this decision was made in order to strengthen BVMH’s infrastructure in challenging times and in the belief that joining forces would enhance the power and reach of peer-led activity in the borough.
Touchpoint provides residents of Barnet with a place to go to get advice and support when things get difficult.
Supporting disabled people in Barnet with information and help with applications.
We are proud to be working with Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust to help them deliver peer support and coproduction.
Our team of talented volunteers provide peer support for people who are struggling with their mental health.
Our User Voice project aims to amplify the voices of disabled people in Barnet to ensure they are heard by decision makers and those in power.
We provide high quality training and consultancy for organisations which want lived experience to inform their practice and projects.
Inclusion Barnet runs two popular local libraries, East Barnet and South Friern, in partnership with Barnet Council.
We believe that research is important and that there is a lack of research that deals with the realities of being a disabled person.
A peer led research, policy and campaigning project focused on improving Barnet adult social care.
Working to support the vital role of voluntary sector organisations in the borough of Barnet.
Helping local people get the best out of local services.