Second Thoughts East Yorkshire

Who We Help, Why We Help & the Difference It Makes

What We Do

Our organisation has several elements, all aiming to improve the quality of life for people with mental health problems and their carers. All services are free to participants.

Anxiety Management Support

We deliver group workshops, in small peer groups of 4 - 6 people over four sessions, each lasting around three hours one day per week. The sessions are confidence building, assertiveness, anxiety management and recognising your skills. We keep these small in numbers so that people have the time and opportunity to chat a little, rather than feeling overwhelmed. The workshops are delivered at various venues across the county.

Our workshops are designed to help people to regain some quality of life and social inclusion. The first workshop is confidence building, the second is assertiveness, the third anxiety management and the fourth valuing your own skills. They each run for about 3 hours over four weeks, one day per week (eg every Monday afternoon, or Wednesday morning). Sometimes, we run double sessions over two Saturdays, 5-6 hours each day. This is for people who would struggle to make weekday sessions because of work commitments or child minding problems.

Individual Support

If group workshops seem too much for you at this point, we are sometimes able to offer a limited number of one to one support sessions for people, but this is as a lead in to joining the workshops, not counselling.

Support And Information to Employers

In order to help people who are struggling with mental health problems, we also provide support and information to employers including mental health awareness, mental wellbeing through supervision and policy development.

• Mental Health Awareness - Mental health is very important and we offer training and information for employers or other organisations on maintaining good mental health, and an overview of mental health problems and personality disorders :
  
• Managing Work Based Stress - Holding on to paid employment is important for people and for employers. With huge costs to recruit, induct and train new staff, it makes far more economic sense to retain valuable employees rather than let them go because of the need for additional support. We offer bespoke training and information for employers. An introductory workshop is arranged followed by more intense workshops and cooperation if requested. This service may carry a nominal charge for companies, but is cost effective.
  

Support on the Move

Living in rural areas, public transport can be a barrier to accessing any activities and social interaction. For people with anxiety, depression or other mental health conditions, getting to where things are happening can be difficult at best, to impossible at worst.

Our other project is ‘STEY on the Move’. We have a minibus and we are going to offer to pick people up and take them to a woodworking unit in Hull, or a gardening project also in Hull. As the project develops, we will also look at other activities to take people to. There is no charge to any participants, for this support, nor indeed for any of our other projects.

Click here for more information on where we go and the interesting projects which are available for you to access. Please note that the logos are removed from the minibus before we pick people up, or drop them off, to respect confidentiality.

Self Help Groups

Since we launched as a charity, we have helped to set up self help groups running across our region which are now completely autonomous, run by the members themselves and independent of Second Thoughts East Yorkshire. Please contact us for more information about the groups.

Volunteer

We are a new organisation and we need help from the local community to set up and in turn, support local people who have, or have had, mental health problems and their carers.

Volunteering

If you have a little time spare, please consider helping us. We need people to help with administration, preparing workshop training content and people to assist with delivering training.We are always looking for people to help us with promotional events including fund raising at supermarkets and other outdoor events. We sometimes need volunteers to drive the minibus for us too. If you feel that you can support us, please contact us, or download a volunteer application form by clicking here.

We would particularly welcome ex armed forces veterans to join us, as we value them immensely. RUOK have received a grant from the Royal British Legion to provide support and a qualified trainer, who is also an understanding ex army veteran. More information on that is available by clicking here.

Fundraising

Sainsbury's Pocklington Local Charity of the Year - We are so delighted and grateful to have been selected as the Local Charity of the Year for 2018/2019. Click here for details of fundraising events.

Corporate Support

We are actively seeking corporate support and would really appreciate the use of a small office in East Yorkshire, and a secure place to park our minibus too.

Ideas Needed

If you have any ideas and suggestions about how we can deliver support, or promote what we do, we are happy to listen too. However you can help us, we greatly appreciate it. Any fundraising ideas will be very helpful, and we are always happy to consider innovative suggestions.

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