Floating Support

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What can the Torfaen Mind Floating Support Service Offer?

 

  • Support with maintaining tenancies
  • Access to other Torfaen Mind services
  • Regular monitoring of your mental health
  • Help with claiming benefits
  • Help with budgeting/managing your money
  • Help to develop life skills
  • Help with housing problems and dealing with landlords
  • Support to improve confidence and self-esteem
  • Emotional support
  • Help to set up new social contracts / activites
  • Talking with other agencies or individuals on your behalf
  • Help to access other services and opportunities, e.g., housing, health, social services, education, training, employment, legal and counselling
  • Mediation / support to help develop relationships
  • Other practical support

Aims

 

To enable people to live independently in their own home, to manage their mental health, to gain quality in their everyday life and maintain their tenancies.

 

To provide a flexible service dependant upon tenant’s needs.

 

Objectives

 

  1. To offer person-centered work
  2. To liaise and/or advocate for clients with other organisations
  3. To offer support in using community resources
  4. To regularly monitor mental and physical health and provide support in accessing appropriate services when necessary
  5. To provide individual support plans negotiated with the client and to review this regularly
  6. To provide one-to-one client contact at least once a week

Who can use the Service?

 

Those who: -

  • Are suffering or recovering from mental health or emotional/stress related problems
  • Are willing to accept support
  • Are 18+
  • Are resident in Torfaen
  • Do not present an unacceptable risk to a lone worker

Key Benefits

  • Access to Torfaen Mind's services
  • Regular monitoring of your mental health
  • Help with claiming benefits
  • Help with budgeting / managing your money
  • Help to develop life skills
  • Help with housing problems and dealing with landlords
  • Support to improve confidence and self esteem
  • Emotional support
  • And many more 

Contact the Floating Support Team on: 01495 768841

Or floatingsupport@torfaenmind.co.uk

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