Our Community Partners
Wandsworth Talking Therapies is proud to work in partnership with The Awareness Centre, an organisation with expertise in providing counselling interventions.
Working with Local Community Organisations
We know many communities and groups already support local people with their wellbeing. We are always keen to work with others – be it co-producing a new wellbeing workshop based on your individual needs or visiting your group to answer any questions about our services and to explore how we could work together.
Perhaps you run a lunch club for older people in your neighbourhood, or a play group for local children? Is your faith group interested in exploring the wellbeing of your community? Are you a member of a local peer support group for carers?
In the past year Wandsworth Talking Therapies has worked with the Baitul Futuh Mosque, Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network, Homestart, Battersea Zoomers, Roehampton Women’s Network, Walk and Talk movement Wandsworth, Battersea Mosque, Elays Network, Balham & Tooting Community Sports & Social Club, Canerows and South Thames College to name but a few!
Please contact us to discuss working together to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of your communities.
Our Champions
To ensure we are supporting everyone from our local communities to access our service, we have developed Champion roles in our teams. These clinicians and wellbeing practitioners are keen to develop their interest and expertise in working with people who may have found it difficult to engage with services in the past or have particular needs they require support with.
Our Champions link with other organisations to ensure people in the local community are aware that we are here and the type of support we can provide, and they also ensure the service understands what changes we need to make to ensure people want to come to see us. We currently have Champions working with people and organisations related to pregnancy and becoming a new parent, people with long term physical health conditions, older people, people from a black and minority ethnic backgrounds, carers, people with a learning disability, those experiencing domestic violence and isolated men.
If you would like to link with one of our Champions, then we would love to hear from you. Please do get in touch here.
Service User Forums
Wandsworth Talking Therapies is keen to improve and learn from people who have accessed our services. We ask every person who is seen for support to complete a Patient Experience Questionnaire which are collected and reviewed every 3 months. The findings from these are shared with the team and we think about how we can act on the feedback we have received.
We also hold regular service user forums to share experiences and help influence new service developments. Please contact us if you would like to join our friendly groups to support us in this valuable way.