SERVICE DETAILS
It is well understood that adults living with disability experience mental health inequality, now exacerbated by the pandemic. That is why we wanted to develop "Wellbeing Wednesdays'' as a regular feature in our programme in response to deterioration to mental health and loneliness, experienced by adults with disabilities.
As part of this project proposal we will coordinate and implement a hybrid offering of four ‘Wellbeing Wednesday’ activities each month. All activities included in this proposal are in line with two get2gether’s organisational objectives, to reduce social isolation of adults with disabilities and increase emotional awareness of our members.
Proposed activities include:
- 6x ‘Mindfulness walks’ in person events in partnership with Change Therapy; walks would take place bi-monthly at fully accessible outdoor spaces, such as Duddingston community garden and Portobello prom. Steve Jones who runs these sessions for Change Therapy works with a person-centred Solution Focused integrative approach, implementing models of mindfulness therapy to support the wellbeing of people with disabilities.
- 2x ‘Monthly LGBT spaces’, which will include everything from ‘Coming out event’ to ‘Being Trans’ as well as working with LGBT Health & Wellbeing to create pathways for our members to engage with the wider LGBT community.
- 6x ‘Seated exercise’ - led by our member with lived experience of a disability, both in person and online, Developing ‘Men's (mental) health’, led by people with a lived experience of a disability, both in person and online
We are open to work with other organisations and projects from EVOC’s community commissioning and co-deliver more activities that would enhance ‘Wellbeing Wednesdays’ offer. This offer will be available to all adults with disabilities, living in Edinburgh.
We welcome the opportunity to work in collaborative ways to address the inequalities of the most vulnerable people in Edinburgh and foster a preventative approach to improving mental health in our community. To coordinate and deliver this work, we intend to transfer some of our staffing capacity. Our coordinators will create new local partnerships pathways, focusing on supporting the needs of our membership and creating social connections between people from different backgrounds and groups.
For further information on this new service, please get in touch.
