Our Purpose
Our purpose and values are at the heart of everything we do to fight for better mental health.
Our Mission
We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress including carers, family, friends and supporters.
Our Vision
We will not give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect.
Our Goals
Staying well:
supporting people likely to develop mental health problems to stay well.
Empowering Choice:
for people who experience a mental health problem to make informed choices about how they live and recover.
Improving services and support:
ensuring that people receive the appropriate services and support at the right time to help their recovery and to enable them to live with their mental health problems.
Enabling social participation:
opening the doors to people with experience of mental health problems to enable them to participate fully in society.
Removing inequality of opportunity:
striving for equality of treatment for people who experience both mental health problems and other forms of discrimination.
Organisational excellence:
making the most of our assets by building a culture of excellence.
Services:
Active Monitoring
This is a free 6-week, a guided programme working with our Practitioner to help you to better understand and be more in control of your feelings and maintain your mental health and wellbeing.
Homelessness Drop-In Support
Are you homeless and not sure what to do? Are you sleeping rough or sofa surfing? We can help.
Counselling
We can provide access to subsidised or low-cost counselling in a safe environment that allows you the space where, in partnership with your counsellor, you can explore your feelings and situation.
Drop-In Mental Health Support
We can provide advice, support and assistance and can support a warm handover into other services and the opportunities across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent.
Sanctuary
The Community Sanctuary provides an alternative venue in which to receive help and avoid the need to access core mental health services.
Communities 4 Work
MHFA Wales develops and delivers high-quality research and evidence-based mental health training, holds the license for Mental Health First Aid in Wales, and they directly train, license and support all instructors who deliver MHFA in Wales.
Mental Health Advice and Support
We can provide mental health advice support and support a warm handover into other services and opportunities for adults with a mental health conditions living in the county borough.
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I need urgent help
We’re here for you, but if you need help immediately or are out of hours, please visit this page for contact information of organisations who can help you, as well as ways that you can help yourself right now.
