NEXT WEEK: Opportunity Nottingham launches A Safe Space: Severe & Multiple Disadvantage and the role of Psychological Counselling... The report, authored by Grant Everitt, Emily Gallagher & Karan Kaur, is an Opportunity Nottingham evaluation of the Safe Space Counselling Service - a voluntary counselling service working with people in Nottingham & Nottinghamshire. 93% of Opportunity Nottingham beneficiaries report a mental health need. Safe Space Counselling is a vital service which helps beneficiaries of Opportunity Nottingham in accessing … [Read more...]
Leaving Prison, Homelessness & Reoffending – Dr Graham Bowpitt
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is the local evaluation partner for Opportunity Nottingham, and Graham Bowpitt, Reader in Social Policy at NTU, leads on this work. … [Read more...]
Meet our Education, Training, Employment & Life Skills Worker…
I have been in post for 4 months now and have such a long job title I have had difficulty narrowing down the role! I have spent my time turning up for Allocations and bothering everyone at Friar Lane, to get to know them and their beneficiaries. Thank you guys for being so helpful. Following that I have met 10 beneficiaries with their respective PDCs. The idea is to agree a focus or theme and work on this for 6 sessions, although this is flexible. So far I am doing beginning reading – this includes making a book about herself and reading a Quickreads book of her … [Read more...]
Brain Injury & Multiple Disadvantage
A blog by Anna Tickle, Clinical Psychologist: Take a moment to appreciate your brain. That 3.3lbs of matter and those billions of neurons allow you to do a lot of things without even being consciously aware. It is normal to take your brain for granted and often only when something goes wrong do we realise just how amazing brains are. Brain injury results from a lack of oxygen and / or blood to the brain. It can be caused before birth, but is more often ‘Acquired Brain Injury’ (ABI, also known as Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI) as a result of physical injury to … [Read more...]
Trapped in the “hamster wheel of homelessness” – a blog by Lee
I’d had a difficult time for quite a few years which ended up with a short period in prison. I knew I would be homeless when I came out, but I didn’t get any help. The screws were all too busy dealing with the day to day business of the prison to help with accommodation. So, on release I spent 17 weeks on the street. At this time, I had no income. I couldn’t get benefits as I was waiting for a medical. I kept on going to my local council - which was Gedling - for help with housing. But in the past due to the difficulties in my life I had built up £2,000 rent … [Read more...]
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