To find out how this exciting new venture can help you, talk to Chris Dawson, Garrow House Project Manager on 01904 420913 or email chris.dawson@turning-point.co.uk
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
Garrow House is a part of Northern Pathways, an exciting new joint venture from two of the most highly regarded third sector organisations providing mental health services – Turning Point and The Retreat.
The quality and safety of secure mental health provision for women has been the focus of research, campaigns and recent policy initiatives. With women in the minority, secure mental health services have primarily been developed with men in mind. As a result, women are often unfairly affected by institutional responses to the behaviours of men.
In response to this major concern and the gap in high support community residential services for women with complex needs, the national Women’s Mental Health Strategy (2002) and the Implementation Guidance for Mainstreaming Gender and Women’s Mental Health (2003) recommend a revision of women’s secure services. The Department of Health have allocated funds to run four pilot schemes in different regional catchment areas. The Northern Pathways joint venture has been commissioned to provide one of the four pilot services.
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
Garrow House is a part of Northern Pathways, an exciting new joint venture from two of the most highly regarded third sector organisations providing mental health services – Turning Point and The Retreat.
The quality and safety of secure mental health provision for women has been the focus of research, campaigns and recent policy initiatives. With women in the minority, secure mental health services have primarily been developed with men in mind. As a result, women are often unfairly affected by institutional responses to the behaviours of men.
In response to this major concern and the gap in high support community residential services for women with complex needs, the national Women’s Mental Health Strategy (2002) and the Implementation Guidance for Mainstreaming Gender and Women’s Mental Health (2003) recommend a revision of women’s secure services. The Department of Health have allocated funds to run four pilot schemes in different regional catchment areas. The Northern Pathways joint venture has been commissioned to provide one of the four pilot services.
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
How we work Our service places women with complex needs at the centre of a model of high support community residential services. We aim to provide a safe and secure environment, enabling women to effectively manage the transition from living in a secure institutional environment to living in the community. While the women using our service may have a range of needs including mental illness and learning disability, the service will be bespoke to individual needs rather than delivered in line with formal diagnosis. Service users will choose from a range of options so that their support is tailored to them and using a Care Programme Approach will ensure that each individual’s needs are properly assessed and planned for.
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We provide 24 hour nursing cover and social care support, including access to: • A range of individual and group psychological therapies • Daytime activities around life skills development • Complementary therapies • Access into community-based education, training and social re-integration opportunities Our new service will be a major landmark in allowing women who use mental health services to have greater choice and control over the service they receive in a safe, supportive environment, as well as a faster road to independence.
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
About Northern Pathways
Combined expertise
Northern Pathways is an exciting new joint venture from two of the most highly regarded third sector organisations providing mental health services – Turning Point and The Retreat.
With a broad spectrum of expertise, Turning Point has a reputation for tackling people’s whole social care needs by addressing the wider issues of health and social disadvantage in parallel. This, combined with The Retreat’s reputation for excellence in specialist mental health provision and established clinical expertise, puts the Northern Pathways joint venture in a unique position to provide a number of services that address the real needs of commissioners and service users. Northern Pathways unites both organisations’ commitment to addressing an individual’s need, rather than making individuals fit into existing services.
25/9/08 12:50:13
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
How we work Our service places women with complex needs at the centre of a model of high support community residential services. We aim to provide a safe and secure environment, enabling women to effectively manage the transition from living in a secure institutional environment to living in the community. While the women using our service may have a range of needs including mental illness and learning disability, the service will be bespoke to individual needs rather than delivered in line with formal diagnosis. Service users will choose from a range of options so that their support is tailored to them and using a Care Programme Approach will ensure that each individual’s needs are properly assessed and planned for.
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We provide 24 hour nursing cover and social care support, including access to: • A range of individual and group psychological therapies • Daytime activities around life skills development • Complementary therapies • Access into community-based education, training and social re-integration opportunities Our new service will be a major landmark in allowing women who use mental health services to have greater choice and control over the service they receive in a safe, supportive environment, as well as a faster road to independence.
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
About Northern Pathways
Combined expertise
Northern Pathways is an exciting new joint venture from two of the most highly regarded third sector organisations providing mental health services – Turning Point and The Retreat.
With a broad spectrum of expertise, Turning Point has a reputation for tackling people’s whole social care needs by addressing the wider issues of health and social disadvantage in parallel. This, combined with The Retreat’s reputation for excellence in specialist mental health provision and established clinical expertise, puts the Northern Pathways joint venture in a unique position to provide a number of services that address the real needs of commissioners and service users. Northern Pathways unites both organisations’ commitment to addressing an individual’s need, rather than making individuals fit into existing services.
25/9/08 12:50:13
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
Northern Pathways is placed to deliver: • Low secure mental health services • Services for people with personality disorders in both residential and community settings • Crisis services that avoid admission to hospital • Specialist services for elderly people with behaviour challenges • Recovery services for those with complex mental health needs • Services for those who also need medical care
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
About Turning Point
About The Retreat
Turning Point is the UK’s leading social care organisation, providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability.
The Retreat is a not-for-profit specialist mental health provider, working with the NHS to provide care for people with complex and difficult needs. The charity was established over 200 years ago.
Established for over 40 years, Turning Point services now span across England and Wales. Their expertise across a broad spectrum of areas means they are skilled in providing services directly to people with multiple issues that other organisations can find difficult to support.
They have a reputation for excellence, providing care of the highest standard and quality. Relationships are based on respect, dignity and tolerance and patients are kept safe and secure through strong therapeutic relationships. The Retreat provides a range of mental health services which fall into four main categories; Specialist Adult Services, Specialist Older People’s Service, Complex Mental Health Recovery Services, and Psychological Therapies (Outpatients).
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
Northern Pathways is placed to deliver: • Low secure mental health services • Services for people with personality disorders in both residential and community settings • Crisis services that avoid admission to hospital • Specialist services for elderly people with behaviour challenges • Recovery services for those with complex mental health needs • Services for those who also need medical care
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Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
About Turning Point
About The Retreat
Turning Point is the UK’s leading social care organisation, providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability.
The Retreat is a not-for-profit specialist mental health provider, working with the NHS to provide care for people with complex and difficult needs. The charity was established over 200 years ago.
Established for over 40 years, Turning Point services now span across England and Wales. Their expertise across a broad spectrum of areas means they are skilled in providing services directly to people with multiple issues that other organisations can find difficult to support.
They have a reputation for excellence, providing care of the highest standard and quality. Relationships are based on respect, dignity and tolerance and patients are kept safe and secure through strong therapeutic relationships. The Retreat provides a range of mental health services which fall into four main categories; Specialist Adult Services, Specialist Older People’s Service, Complex Mental Health Recovery Services, and Psychological Therapies (Outpatients).
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To find out how this exciting new venture can help you, talk to Chris Dawson, Garrow House Project Manager on 01904 420913 or email chris.dawson@turning-point.co.uk
Garrow House: A high support residential service designed especially for women
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