Posts Tagged ‘Community Rehabilitation’
Paint and Lunch: How our artist colleagues and clients are bringing colour and creativity to our new Bristol offices
A collaborative Paint and Lunch event aimed to create a “homely feel” for the new Second Step Pennywell Road offices…
Read MoreSecond Step’s Community Rehabilitation team and Bristol Wellbeing College host Carers’ Week Event
To coincide with Carers’ Week, our Bristol Community Rehabilitation team and Bristol Wellbeing College organised an event for carers on…
Read More“I looked forward to riding Maverick every week.” How horse riding became one young woman’s passport home.
It’s well known that horses can help our mental health, with a study by the British Horse Society revealing that horse riding stimulated many positive psychological feelings including reducing depression by 30%.
But for one young woman, who has spent the last 10 years in mental health units often under a section, horse riding became so much more than this. It helped her build her confidence and slowly but surely find the strength to return to life in the community.
Read MoreHealing verses: poetry and prose from Community Rehabilitation
Our Community Rehabilitation service in Bristol recently ran a creative writing group. Members met on Wednesday afternoons and wrote a mixture of…
Read MoreCreating connections through art
How volunteering at Second Step creates hope and change, and in this case, an actual piece of artwork too! It’s…
Read MoreKatie’s journey
Katie tells her story of volunteering at a local radio station.
Read More#TakingMentalHealthOutside
Our most recent campaign is the result of a four-month experimental film project with staff, volunteers, peer workers and clients…
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