Project Space
Back to Life
People Involved: Sarah Alderson
Partners: TimeBank
URLs related to this project: www.timebank.org.uk/
Where is the need for this project?
Young men recovering from mental illness often lack the support networks they need.
Where do you hope this project can go?
Back to Life is a mentoring scheme which matches young men who are recovering from mental illness with near-to-peer male mentors who support them back to living independent lives. As a pilot project, Back to Life pilot was evaluated over three years and shown to have great success in building the confidence of young men leaving mental health care. It enables them to become active again in their local communities and to make choices about their futures, including accessing education, employment and social care, including individual budgets. As they have done with other projects, TimeBank hope to roll out the project across the country using a social franchising model.
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