SOCIAL PRESCRIBING BEFRIENDING

Previously, there have been limited ways to treat and respond to those with mental health conditions. Social prescribing offers a different, not necessarily new, way of treating and interacting with them. It connects them to the community and helps build up relationships and friendships that can be very difficult when suffering mental health issues, long-term illnesses and physical disabilities.

SPS Befriending offers a different way to respond and treat people. It doesn’t care if you have an illness or lots of diagnoses, if you are homeless or live in a mansion or if you are young or old. It’s a way of having fun whilst putting you in control of your own health and well-being, your own future and your own care. It is not a case of engaging in activities, it is more of a cause of how to live.

YAWR support workers carry out a home visit to undertake a social need assessment and link patients into appropriate services in the voluntary and community sector. The activities that we deliver are based on asset based community development (ABCD) model.