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Blogs, opinion pieces, stories and experiences from across Second Step. See below for our most recent campaign & video, our latest news and blog posts, and our 2023 Impact Report.

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Golden Key’s peer mentors

14 December 2016

The Golden Key Peer Mentor Team is a network of people with lived experience who support Golden Key clients.

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Hope, courage and walking

14 December 2016

The Second Step walking group decorated a tree as part of Treefest a spectacular display of Christmas trees in Bristol.

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Outstanding teaching at Second Step Recovery College

8 December 2016

One of our wellbeing and mental health trainers Nina Simmonds was given an outstanding grade in a recent teaching observation by Bristol City Council’s Learning Communities team.

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New approaches tested to boost older people’s mental health

4 November 2016

Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Carers Support Centre in partnership with Dhek Bhal, Happy City, Second Step and Oasis-Talk were awarded a total of £75,000 to trial different approaches to solution-focused brief interventions to support those older people whose emotional problems contribute to their loneliness.

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Marvin Rees joins City Partners in pledge to tackle homelessness

13 October 2016

Action on homelessness needs to be taken now before the winter hits, and for the longer term, the Mayor told a packed breakfast debate in Bristol on Thursday 29 September.

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Terry takes to the airwaves about OCD

13 October 2016

Second Step’s very own Terry Starr has been open about living with OCD to raise awareness of the issue. This weekend he is taking to the airwaves on South Bristol’s BASE Radio in a special edition of the “Second Step Recovery Tunes” show.

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