HEALTH + WELLBEING

Info about health and wellbeing support in Angus

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All in Angus | Enable Works

All in Angus provides specialist employability support to individuals aged 16-67, who have a health condition or disability, and are looking for work.

We can also support parents who are currently unemployed or employed and looking to improve or change their career.

Enable Works delivers tailored support throughout Angus, at a place and time that suits you. This support ranges from CV building and interview techniques to managing health challenges at work, employer engagement and in work support.

If you are interested to learn how we could support you, please contact us.

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Angus Access Panel

 

Angus Access Panel provides an advice and information service for people with disabilities and their carers.
The Panel covers a wide area. Coastal from Montrose, Arbroath, Carnoustie to Monifieth and Landward from Brechin, Forfar and Kirriemuir. It also includes the beautiful Angus Glens.

The panel consists of a number of volunteers who work from the office based in Forfar.

 
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ANGUSalive Be Active…Live Well   

ANGUSalive’s BE ACTIVE…live well programme supports those living with | or at risk of | a long term health condition to increase their physical activity. The programme may also benefit those who haven’t exercised before or who have not been active for some time and just don’t know where to start.

Be Active…Live Well continues to support people across Angus living with and beyond cancer to get active and stay active. Our team have undergone specialist training to ensure you are supported to find a suitable and safe activity | whether you are coming to us before | during or after cancer treatment.

Referrals can be made by any health professional including doctors | health visitors | practice nurses | physiotherapists and dieticians. People can also self-refer by completing the referral form on our website.

The benefits of being physically active include reducing the risk of a range of diseases | e.g. coronary heart disease | stroke | and type 2 diabetes. It also helps to maintain a healthy weight | helps maintain ability to perform everyday tasks with ease | improves self-esteem and reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Please see our website for more information about the physical activity opportunities currently available.

 

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Physical Activity | Long Term Condition | Cancer | Stroke | COPD | Heart Attack | Falls | Injury | Illness | Mental Health

 

Angus Integrated Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service

 

AIDARS covers the whole of Angus through two locality based teams. The North Locality Team covers: Brechin, Montrose, Forfar and Kirriemuir. The South Locality Team covers Arbroath, Carnoustie and Monifeith.

AIDARS offers the following support services:

  • Motivational Enhancement Therapy
  • In patient and community detox for alcohol and opiates and Opiate Replacement Therapy
  • Recovery care planning and self directed support
  • Overdose awareness (including Naloxone dispensing), harm reduction and BBV Testing
  • Relapse prevention in groups and one to one, supported by medication if required
  • Psychological interventions.

AIDARS aims to:

  • Respond to referrals requesting drug and alcohol assessments within one week
  • Provide an assessment appointment for Opiate Replacement Therapy within three weeks of referral
  • Commence non ORT treatments and support for individuals using drugs and alcohol within three weeks of referral
  • Enable individual s to access treatment quickly and support them to remain in treatment until they achieve their treatment goals
  • To reduce drugs deaths in Angus by providing Overdose Prevention and Intervention training to service users and their families.
  • Work with our partners in the third sector to provide a seamless service across the Recovery Oriented System of Care in Angus.
 

Angus Nova Project

Penumbra Angus Nova Service offers support to individuals experiencing mental health challenges to engage more fully into their community, by helping them to access mainstream activities and groups such as further education, sports, clubs and work, whether voluntary or paid. The service is available to anyone living in Angus, over the age of 16 years. 

 

 

We accept self-referrals, as well as referrals from any other agency/organisation

 

 

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Angus Suicide Prevention & Support Service

 

This service is available to all adults, aged 16 years and over, living in Angus who experience thoughts of suicide or may have attempted suicide.

We also offer support to family members, carers or friends of adults experiencing suicidal thoughts.

  • Self Management
  • Person Centred
  • Listening
  • Safety
  • Information
  • Crisis Planning
  • Signposting

There is no application form and no waiting list. Anyone over the age of 16, living in Angus, can access this service. You can choose to remain anonymous.

 
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Angus Talking Newspaper

We are a charitable organisation run entirely by volunteers, operating throughout Angus producing CDs of local news for blind and partially sighted people.  We provide a monthly CD, with the local news for your area, delivered free of charge to your door. We have teams covering the local newspapers in Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie/Monifieth, Forfar/ Kirriemuir, and Montrose. We are always looking for volunteers to read extracts from the local newspaper at a recording session held once a month, taking no more than an hour, and volunteers who are proficient with laptop use to help with recordings.

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Angus Voice

Reducing Inequality, Isolation & Stigma

Together, as a collective advocacy, we aim to support & represent what matters to you; the Angus community.
Angus Voice represents the views and experiences of people in Angus who heave mental health problems.

What is Angus Voice?
Angus Voice is for and led by people who have personal experience of accessing mental health services. The aim is to build the capacity and involvement of people who use mental health services. It enables us to contribute to improving the services that affect us. The project does this by building partnerships and challenging stigma and discrimination.

Why is Angus Voice Important?
People with direct experience of mental health problems have a unique perspective and expertise. Collective advocacy is an opportunity to harness this expertise and use it to benefit and influence the ways in which mental health services in Angus are developed and run, to educate professionals and the public, and to empower and influence individual members’ lives.

 
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Mental Health | Advocacy | Lived-experience | Inequality | Isolation | Stigma | Peer Support | Walking

Change Mental Health Tayside

Change Mental Health promotes resilience and recovery, supporting people to integrate into their local community across Tayside. We run services including Carer Support, Resilience and Hearing Voices in Tayside, which collaborate together and with our National services such as our Advice and Support Service, to ensure we are resourceful, keep support simple and place the individual at the heart of what we do. Our approach focuses on your circumstances and we welcome you into a safe, non-judgemental space where you can be open. It’s our goal to make sure you are not facing life’s difficulties alone, especially when poor mental health and mental illness makes it a much bigger task.
 

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Mental Health | Hearing Voices | Carers support | Resilience | Peer Support | Group Work | Bereavement | Loss | Grief |

Deaf Links

Deaf Links provide Sensory Advocacy support for individuals with and form of deafness or sight loss living in Angus, to ensure they have full access to information, can make informed decisions in their lives and have their rights upheld.

Our DefiniTAY project provides specialist advocacy support for any Deaf woman who uses BSL and has experienced any form of gender based violence or abuse.

We provide advocacy and mentoring for deaf or visually impaired children and young people under 25 living in Angus who are struggling with their mental health, having their voice heard, with their sensory identity, having their rights respected or just need some informed support around their sensory needs.

Deaf Links can deliver Deaf and sensory awareness training, BSL Cultural Awareness training and BSL workshop tailored to the requirements of any group or organisation. We also deliver Signature Accredited BSL Courses at Levels 1, 2 and 3.

activities and learning that truly reflect the needs of deaf and sensory impaired people in the area, empowering them to become equal and active members of the communities they live in.

Located on the ground floor of the Old Mill in Brown Street, Dundee, near the city centre, Tayside Deaf Hub premises are extensive and house the Tayside Deaf Community groups DDSSC and Tayside Deaf Forum for their social, sporting and information activities.

 

Headway Dundee & Angus

 

We offer free support, information and services for people with a brain injury, their families and carers.

 

Hillcrest Futures – Angus Mental Health Peer Support Service

The Angus Mental Health Peer Workers service is based in GP Practices in the North Locality of Angus. The service is to provide peer support to people with their mental health and wellbeing.  Peer Support is defined as the help and support that people with lived experience of poor mental health and wellbeing can provide for others struggling to manage their mental health and wellbeing, built on shared personal experience and empathy.
 

The Peer Worker role will start by assessing an individual’s mental health and wellbeing.  Peer workers will then support prevention and self-management by providing self-management tools and strategies, signposting to supports in the local community, and referring on to other agencies where required.  Peer Workers will offer a brief intervention and will provide support to adults and carers to understand their difficulties, self-manage and future plan.

To arrange a session contact your GP Practice or contact us:

 

Hillcrest Futures Community Recovery Service Angus

We provide 1-2-1 support as well as community and group work support for any individual aged 18+ affected by their drug or alcohol use. Working with individuals to create goals and develop appropriate coping strategies to help maintain a life free from problematic substance use.

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Drugs | Alcohol | Recovery | Support | Community | Groups |

Hypnotherapy Angus

Therapy Service – Solution Focused Hypnotherapist working with Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Unwanted Habits and more. Online or in Person.

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Therapy | Anxiety | Stress | Depression | Mental Health | Hypnotherapy

MS Therapy Centre Tayside

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Move More ANGUSalive

ANGUSalive is working in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support to develop Move More across Angus. Move More Scotland is part of Macmillan Cancer Support’s national campaign to support people living with and beyond cancer to find an activity that is right for them, with individually tailored health behaviour change support for people to continue to be active.

through Move More ANGUSalive.


How can I get support from Move More?

The medical team supporting you may have discussed Move More with you, and can complete a referral form for you. You can also access Move More services by contacting us directly:

 

NHS Listening Service

“People have problems which can overwhelm them and cause distress of varying degrees and many have no-one to talk to as they have a limited support circle or they can’t share e.g. family worries with family members” (NHS Tayside GP)

Based in Health and Social Care contexts, Do You Need to Talk is a service that promotes wellbeing by offering an active listening service. The service helps people explore their deepest hurts and draw strength from their own inner resources and those of the communities of support around them.

The service is a short term, early intervention model of person-centred, assets based listening with the aim of promoting personal and communal wellbeing.

“I came away with a feeling of optimism. I have since taken positive steps to make some changes in my like, which have improved my mental and emotional wellbeing.” (NHS Tayside patient)

The service is available to anyone registered with a Tayside GP practice.

 

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Multiple Sclerosis Angus Group

Our branch is run by volunteers with the aim of giving help, support and friendship to people in the Angus area who have MS. We also offer help and assistance to others affected by MS such as friends, family and carers of people with MS. Help with fund-raising. Help out at social events. Drive community bus. Grants, political lobbying, research.
 
 

North East Sensory Services

We have social groups across Angus, bringing together people with a sensory loss to enjoy a range of outings and activities, and provide informal support to each other, helping to reduce social isolation. We have social groups in Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Brechin and Forfar.        

                                                                 

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Sensory Impairments | IT Support | BSL | Social Groups | Volunteering | Aids For People With Vision Loss | Aids For People With Hearing Loss | Employability

NHS Tayside

NHS Tayside provides health care services for people in Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross.

For a full list of services, please visit our website http://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk and keep up to date with the latest news by following us on social media.

 
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The Health Shop

The Heath Shop is a free health information resource unit that provides health promotion and disease management information.
Health shop staff and volunteers can help people living with long term conditions access information to help them manage their condition. We are able to signpost to local and national organisations and sources of support that can help further support patients with their condition.

The Health Shop has sites at:

• Ninewells Hospital, main concourse

• Perth Royal Infirmary, by main reception

• Whitehills HCCC, by main reception

• Links HC, by outpatient‘s reception

• Brechin HC, within waiting area

The Health Shop provides a focal point for raising awareness of various health weeks and campaigns. A table and display board can be used on request at most units.

 
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TRE-Life CIC

TRE-LIFE focus on addressing unemployment and isolation issues in communities in Scotland. Our aim is to support individuals into brighter futures and improve their mental health and wellbeing. TRE-LIFE offer courses to young people and adults facing barriers to employment and support them into positive destinations. This could be into employment or, for some, setting up their own business. Social isolation and rural isolation are caused by many factors and TRE-LIFE run community projects to tackle these issues. 

Projects will include a variety of activities that will tackle environmental activities that reduce waste.

 

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Vision Support Montrose

Vision Support Montrose is a group open to anybody on the sight loss journey, both in and around Montrose, irrespective of age.

We meet fortnightly on a Thursday between 14.00 and 15.30 at the Park Hotel, 61 John Street, Montrose.

We meet for tea/coffee and biscuits, have a chat, draw a raffle, invite interested professionals to our group to meet members, have occasional outings such as a lunch out. Our group members are very friendly, kind-hearted, cheery and caring people.  You’ll be welcomed warmly, listened to, your views respected and made to feel included.

All are welcome. We are a group, not a club, but is open to all on the sight loss journey, both in and around Montrose irrespective of age.

No subscription charges or membership fees.  Those who come are asked to pay £2 for coffee and biscuits.  The raffle costs £1 for two tickets.  Prizes are donated by members and sometimes members of their family.

 

 

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Scottish Huntington’s Association (Angus)

To raise awareness through information and education and provide training to care providers and health professionals involved in the care of those affected by Huntington’s Disease.To provide specialist information, confidential advice, practical help and emotional support to anyone affected by Huntington’s Disease, their families and their carers. We work in close liaison with health authorities, social services and other statutory and voluntary agencies.


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