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And the Jewish community is no different. The prevalence of mental health problems among both adults and young people is increasing year on year, diminishing the quality of life for many and too often risking lives.
When Paola left hospital, having had what she describes as “essentially a nervous breakdown”, she was referred to Jami and given a support worker. Paola also joined Jami’s online mental health sessions and started going to our hub in Finchley, where she took part in activities and groups to support her mental health. More recently, she’s benefitted from Jami’s vocational support and hopes to gain full-time employment soon. But for now, Paola is happy volunteering for Jami as it’s enabling her to use her skills and experience and give something back. “Because of Jami, my week is filled with positive things,” she says.
Without the support of Jami, my life would be empty.
Whether people need a reassuring conversation, expert advice on navigating mental health services, recovery-focused services, an advocate by their side, someone to speak to with lived experience, or long-term professional support, Jami ensures that people living with mental health problems, and their families, get the support they need, when they need it.
A year after their first child was born, Adam’s wife, Amy, had a mental health crisis. In desperation, the couple turned to Jami for help. Amy was given immediate support but what surprised Adam was that, as Amy’s carer, he was offered support too. Like Amy, Adam received one-to-one sessions with a Jami support worker. He then joined one of Jami’s carers’ groups. He says: “It’s been really cathartic. It’s a chance to listen to and support each other.” Adam further adds: “We both have people that we can speak to now – and this is so important. I don’t know how I or my family would have survived without Jami.”
When my wife and I were in crisis, community support was important. I don’t know how we would have coped without Jami.
Adam
Jami runs services for adults, young people and carers, as well as providing support to community organisations, teachers, educators and youth workers.
We provide treatment and support. We advise and advocate. We educate and campaign.
Jami’s support has been fantastic. I didn’t realise how much I needed it and how much my child needed it.
Emma, Jami service user
To increase mental health literacy and gain practical skills, we run online courses, seminars and events for educators, youth workers, community organisations and anyone with an interest in mental illness.
We offer free, safe, online mental health and wellbeing support through Qwell, a mental wellbeing accredited platform.
We advise and signpost to local and national services to help people get the support they require.
We match individuals with a volunteer with shared interests to provide practical support and friendship.
Our occupational therapists, social workers and peer support workers provide short-term intense support and longer-term ongoing support that is tailored to each individual’s specific needs.
We support and empower people, their carers and family to have a voice, understand their rights and make informed decisions.
We provide learning opportunities, support and connection with others through a weekly programme of free drop-in and online community group sessions.
Our multi-skilled team works with individuals, families and schools to address the mental health needs of secondary-school-age children.
Through individual and specialist group sessions, we provide unpaid carers with practical advice and emotional support.
We help people to access, prepare for, and succeed in meaningful activity, including volunteering, education, skills training and paid employment.
Alongside offering great food and drink, our social enterprise café provides an alternative to traditional mental health services. Our free community programme for everyone inspires open conversations and mutual support.
In addition to delivering our existing services to meet the increasing demand, our five-year strategy also focuses on developing additional services, including:
Affordable access to counselling and one-to-one psychological therapies
Increased campaigning, education and suicide prevention
Improvements to our ‘front door’ and more support offered 24/7 to make it easier and quicker to gain help
New Head Room cafés and integrated Jami hubs to support collaborative physical and mental health care in welcoming and non-stigmatising environments
If there was no Jami, my life would be dismal. Jami is a lifesaver.
Daniel, service user
Head Room opens in Golders Green Partnership agreement with Jewish Care*
Single communitybased service 50 staff 140 volunteers £1.5M turnover 200 service users
Where we are now
97 staff 212 volunteers £5M turnover
1737 service users
*To ensure the best use of community resources, on 1st April 2013, Jami formed an Association Agreement with Jewish Care. By way of this agreement, Jami became the provider of non-residential mental health care within the Jewish community and Jewish Care continued to use their expertise to provide residential care. Jami is a separate registered charity with a large professional team and are grateful to receive a grant from Jewish Care towards delivery of its services.
Over the last three years, referrals into our Young Adult service have doubled, and tripled into our Carer and Family Support service.
As statutory services buckle under the weight of demand, increasing numbers of people in our community are turning to Jami for help, making our lifesaving mental health services more needed than ever before.
We don’t, however, receive any government support to deliver them. Instead, we rely on the generosity of the community to
fund our services, which cost £5 million each year.
To keep our young people and adults safe and mentally healthy, we need the community to invest in mental health support on an entirely new scale. We know we have the ability and expertise to do this, but we can only succeed if the community plays its part too.
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