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During a celebration event for Bristol Mental Health’s Community Rehabilitation Service, Bev sat quietly as her sister Lesley told a room full of people how the team had turned their lives around.

Strong U Belong is the brain child of Luke Elstone and a group of his friends. Luke tragically lost a close friend, Pete Davies, who committed suicide in 2012. Luke said: “The worst thing was that none of us were aware how bad things had become for Pete”. Since Pete’s death, Luke’s friends have spoken more openly about their own depression, anxiety and self-doubt.

Bristol Community Rehabilitation Service will be holding an event on 15 February 2017 in celebration of their work to date. The occasion will be an opportunity for people who use the service and those that work for the service to come together and spend some time with each other.

Volunteer Services recently set up two new mentoring programmes. One is in the Community Rehabilitation Service and the other with Get Connected.

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