The Living Well Network Alliance has launched its fifth report for 2023/24, which includes a number of short videos and case studies that bring alive grassroots mental health work in Lambeth.
Moving personal stories help to illustrate the Alliance priorities on Crisis, Independence, Equalities, Physical Health and Work & Training
In his opening remarks Bill Tidnam, Chair of the Alliance Communications and Engagement Group and Chief Executive of Thames Reach outlines the Alliance’s first six years have not all been straightforward, and big changes to the working environment ‘have had an impact on what we do. The pandemic has had a real impact on the way that services are delivered, and the cost-of-living crisis has had a real effect on peoples’ lives and, inevitably, their mental health’, he writes.
He adds it’s important to remember that ‘the idea of an alliance of commissioners and providers from the council, NHS and the voluntary sector, taking on shared responsibility for delivering and improving services, was very new when we started. And it’s an idea that is as important now as it was then, giving us the means to build services around the needs of people rather than trying to fit people round services and funding streams’.
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