Health and Wellbeing

Health, Wellbeing and Resilience

Looking after a spouse, partner, family member, friend or neighbour can affect your overall health and well-being. We offer a range of activities designed to support carers and Black and Minority Ethnic communities to improve their own health, well-being and resilience. Our activities include mental health and well-being support, nutritional, physical and recreational activities either in groups or individually.

Mental and Emotional Health...

Our counselling service is provided by professionally trained and accredited counsellors who can help if you are experiencing stress, anxiety, low mood or relationship difficulties. Support can be provided face-to-face, over the telephone, by text, Watsapp, email or zoom. The service is free of charge and you can get 6 one hour sessions.

Referrals can be made through a MECOPP worker, another professional involved in supporting you or you can self-refer. There is a simple referral form to fill out. If you need help to do this, we can assist you.

Individual support is also available from our Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Worker for adults and older people.

This service is currently only available to the Gypsy/Traveller community in Scotland.

Download Community Health Matters Service leaflet at https://www.mecopp.org.uk/services/carers/health-wellbeing.

Healthy Living Activities & Health Literacy...

Our healthy living activity programme is designed to improve your physical health, reduce social isolation and build community connections. As part of this work we also deliver workshops to improve health literacy.

Recent examples include dance workshops; chair-based exercise, yoga and walking groups.

We can tailor activities to the needs of a specific group or community. This includes ‘taster’ sessions to identify wider interest. We can also support access to greenspace and wider use of community facilities.

Our work on health literacy includes workshops on specific long-term conditions to raise awareness and support self-management.

We are currently running a number of groups for Gypsy/Traveller women/families including: ‘food & mood’; mum and toddler group; women’s health groups; family groups; and, a youth group.

Please get in touch with us to find out if there is a group running for a particular community in your area.

Nutritional Support & Advice...

Our community food worker is a trained nutritionist and can provide advice, information and practical support. This includes cooking and nutrition workshops and one to one sessions combining tailored advice and learning new cooking skills and recipes. We can also provide information on existing community food initiatives in your area.

This service is currently only available to members of the Gypsy/Traveller community in Edinburgh and Argyll & Bute.

Creative Arts...

We use the creative arts to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing and good health within the communities we work with. Our work is wide-ranging from film and photography, drama, creative writing and arts and crafts. We do this by working in partnership with other agencies to support the inclusion of communities and by organising our own activities.

Please get in touch with us to find out if there is an activity running for a particular community in your area.