Together We – Together We Talk
Together We is a Community Interest Company in West Cumbria that aims to empower people to learn skills to better manage their own physical and mental health and their overall wellbeing.
Together We – Together We Talk
Together We Talk provides talking interventions based on evidence for mental and physical health and wellbeing. This may include interventions based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Rewind Trauma Therapy and Person-centred Counselling. Providing interventions to those falling between service gaps and those not in receipt of psychological statutory services.
Together We offer a variety of different sessions/workshops designed to help people understand their symptoms and how to self-manage them.
The grant award will support staffing costs for Together We Talk, Copeland Provision over 5 years.
Project Impacts
Project Impacts
- Deliver 12-24 sessions per person with a therapeutic approach that is designed to the client’s needs using effective co-produced materials and engagement.
- Continue the Together We Talk service with a refined referral pathway.
- Support the professionals and referrers to know where to refer to in the West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership, stopping double referrals.
- Introduce Recovery Support Practitioners to link people into the right services at the right time, support people with their interventions and engage them in active management of their health.
- Increase the number of Talk Practitioners to offer alternative talking therapy to that of statutory services.
- To offer a service for those people harder to reach.
- To improve mental health, physical health, hope and resilience.
- Safeguard previous project roles and create new employment opportunities.
- Improving social inclusion by supporting people to access services outside of Together We in their recovery journey and symptom management.
- Supporting and building the emotional resilience of children and young people and their families, as well as the wider adult population around them. This will foster better community health and wellbeing.