Together: Working for Well-being
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Together: Working for Wellbeing is a UK charity working in mental health.
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[edit] Description
Together is a leading UK charity, and the country's oldest mental health charity, working to support people with mental health needs.
Together is a service user-led, community charity. It supports more than 3,500 people who experience mental distress, through 100 different projects across the country. Together works with people of all ages from 18 upwards, both sexes and many different ethnic origins. Many of them have been diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health needs such as schizophrenia or severe depression. The charity provides mental health services by working in partnership with many other organisations, including housing associations, health trusts, local authorities, criminal-justice agencies and private- and other voluntary-sector bodies.
The charity changed its name in 2005 from the Mental After Care Association. Key to the change was the incorporation of wellbeing, now a foundational concept in the charity's work.
[edit] History
Together was founded in 1879 by Rev Henry Hawkins, then chaplain of Colney Hatch asylum, who wanted to find ways to support people leaving the institution once they returned to the community.
[edit] Values
Together’s vision is of communities that:
- value mental wellbeing
- respect and support each person’s individual journey towards fulfilment and happiness.
Together’s mission is to support individuals and communities to:
- achieve mental wellbeing
- realise their potential.
[edit] External links
- [1] www.together-uk.org
