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The Well-Bean Crisis Cafe – Hope in a crisis blog: July 2019. The Well-Bean Cafe is now to open 7 days a week across Leeds.

(Written by Matthew Hall – Crisis Support Worker at WBC) The Well-Bean Café (WBC) will soon be open across Leeds 7 days a week, providing support to those in mental health crisis. Currently we are open 5 nights a week across sites in Lincoln Green and Beeston, and will soon be opening in West Leeds in the Armley area on Thursday and Friday. As the service has expanded from being

2019-07-05T13:10:45+01:005th July 2019|Blog, Crisis support|

Crisis cafe for people at risk of suicide and self harm opens in Huddersfield

A cafe for people with nowhere to go when mental health services are closed has opened in Huddersfield. The Well Bean crisis cafe has opened in New Street and provides one-to-one support, practical advice, hot drinks and homemade food for people experiencing mental health crisis. It has been set up by Kirklees mental health charity Touchstone and Huddersfield social enterprise the Basement Recovery Project, which supports people with addictions and

2019-06-10T15:45:37+01:0010th June 2019|Crisis support, News|

How are cafes in Leeds helping people who are having a mental health crisis?

Leeds is set to get a third mental health crisis cafe which aims to help those at risk of self-harm and suicide. Funding worth £314,000, via NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), means a Well Bean crisis cafe can open in west Leeds adding to the two that are already established at Lincoln Green and Beeston and it will open seven nights a week for the next two years. The main

2019-06-03T16:38:00+01:003rd June 2019|Crisis support, News|

The Well-Bean Crisis Cafe – Hope in a crisis blog: April 2019. Our funding has been extended for another 2 years!

Written by Matthew Hall – Crisis Support Worker at WBC The Well-Bean Café (WBC) has been open in Leeds since November 2016, initially at the Lincoln Green Community Centre (Sat to Mon) and from this past January extended to 5 nights a week – running an additional two nights per week (Tue to Wed) at Touchstone House in Beeston. We recently received the news from our funders that the service

2019-04-25T15:08:26+01:0025th April 2019|Blog, Crisis support|

The Well-bean Crisis Cafe – Hope in a crisis blog: February 2019

THE WELL-BEAN CRISIS CAFÉ – HOPE IN A CRISIS BLOG: FEBRUARY 2019 - THE WELL-BEAN CRISIS CAFÉ IS NOW OPEN TWO EXTRA NIGHTS @ TOUCHSTONE HOUSE IN BEESTON (Written by Matthew Hall – Crisis Support Worker at WBC) The Well-Bean Café (WBC) is now open a further two nights in the south of Leeds at Touchstone House, Beeston on Tuesday and Wednesdays. Since November 2016, we have been open at

2019-02-05T15:11:41+00:005th February 2019|Blog, Crisis support, Partnership|

Leeds’ Well-Bean café offering a lifeline to people during a mental health crisis in South Leeds

Touchstone, in partnership with Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service, is building on the success of the Well-Bean café in Lincoln Green, with the opening of a second café in South Leeds later this month. The Lincoln Green centre, close to St James’ Hospital, has had 4,000 people through its doors since opening in November 2016. Now the two mental health charities are extending the service to a second location at

2019-01-22T13:27:38+00:0022nd January 2019|Crisis support, News, Partnership|

The Well-bean Crisis Cafe – Hope in a crisis blog: Christmas and New Year support awareness edition

Christmas and the New Year Period can be a polarising period of time. For many people this is a time for celebration and enjoyment with friends and family. For many though, this may not be the case. Many services that people rely on shut down over the Christmas period, and it can be a period that can feel very lonely and isolating for many people. With very cold weather and

2018-12-17T13:56:29+00:0017th December 2018|Blog, Crisis support|

Two years of The Well-Bean Café: Hope in a crisis

THE WELL-BEAN CRISIS CAFÉ – HOPE IN A CRISIS BLOG – November ’18: TWO YEARS OF THE WELL-BEAN CAFÉ: HOPE IN A CRISIS (Written by Matthew Hall – Crisis Support Worker at WBC) On 12 November 2016 the Well-Bean Café (WBC) opened, having our first visitor on that same evening. Now nearly two years on – we have had over 175 individual visitors to the service, and overall visits well

2020-04-17T11:00:15+01:0020th November 2018|Blog, Crisis support|

Report: Access and Experience of Mental Health Crisis Care Services in Leeds by Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

As part of the Leeds Crisis Care Concordat Action Plan for 2016/17, John Halsall of the Touchstone Community Development Service and Caroline Bamford of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust compiled some evidence about the experiences and patterns of use of the Leeds crisis care pathways by black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. To do this, John and Caroline reviewed data recorded by the statutory crisis services, and data

2020-04-17T10:51:38+01:0021st December 2017|Blog, Crisis support, Data and Statistics, Downloads, Equality and Diversity, Research|

THE WELL-BEAN CRISIS CAFÉ – HOPE IN A CRISIS BLOG – December 2017 – CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR EDITION

(Written by Matthew Hall – Well-Bean Café Support Worker) Christmas and the New Year Period can is usually a heightened time of enjoyment for a lot of people – building up to the end of the year with a sense of joy and freedom with family and friends. For a lot of people however – this is simply not the case…. The Festive Period for many can mean a time

2020-04-17T10:41:29+01:0018th December 2017|Blog, Crisis support|

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