All Services in Leeds

Asset-based community development, put very simply, is a bottom up approach to working with communities that starts from a place that celebrates the strengths and assets communities have to draw from rather than starting from a point of focusing on what is wrong in communities and needs fixing.

Touchstone is a partner in a Leeds city-wide initiative that provides supported accommodation for individuals and families with complex needs, including those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Beacon was launched in 2017 and is delivered by a consortium including Turning Lives Around, Touchstone and Foundation.

Being You Leeds provides groups, activities and training and awareness sessions for community wellbeing across Leeds, 7 days a week, including evenings and weekends. It is a partnership of lots of third sector organisations across Leeds.

The clinic is for non-pregnant women and offers a one-stop service for women who have undergone and/or are experiencing problems as a result of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The clinic offers a relaxed and safe environment for you and you can bring your friends or family with you for support.

Touchstone’s BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) Dementia Service provides specialist support to people living with memory problems or a diagnosis of dementia and their carers from ethnic minorities. Our aim is to raise awareness of dementia within BME communities by breaking down the barriers that exists about dementia and bring it out into the open so that people can access the support they need while meeting their language, cultural and religious needs.

Community Wellbeing Connector roles are help bridge gaps between people and support in their communities in the HATCH area of Leeds (Chapeltown, Harehills, Burmantofts and Richmond Hill). They work with people to promote mental health and wellbeing, increase their independence and support their recovery. They support people with ongoing and complex Severe Mental Illness (SMI’s), supporting people to consider and navigate the different types of community support available to them. They also offer practical support, i.e. accompanying people to activities/assessments if needed.

CRISS provides Peer Support to people that have been referred to CRISS, working in partnership with the NHS, to support those who are experiencing a mental health crisis as an alternative to hospital. Service users are referred to CRISS if they need urgent mental health support and interventions to help their recovery at home.

East Leeds Health for all (ELHFA) Better Together works within the heart of Lincoln Green to support the local community to help address health inequalities, reduce isolation and improve physical health and wellbeing, by providing a range of community groups and activities that have been developed in conjunction with our Service Users, listening to what they want, where and when.

Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services identify people who have mental health, learning disability, substance misuse or other vulnerabilities when they first come into contact with the criminal justice system as suspects, defendants or offenders.

Live Well Leeds is a Leeds City wide service, based in the community to provide support for people with mild to moderate support needs to manage and/or recover from their mental health, diagnosed or not.

The Men’s Health Unlocked network helps to deliver and support all the great men’s work happening in and around Leeds. They offer support to men in Leeds and work on creating strategic systems change and raising awareness of issues facing men.

Free confidential advice and support for men working in health and social care in West Yorkshire.

Shafa works with people form the South Asian community who have offended. We support people to access local resources, including employment, training, education and housing. We help people to address family relationship issues and substance misuse and will support people to recognise and address their triggers for offending behaviour. We focus on well being, health, housing, relationships, family, cultural considerations, employment and training.

Our aim is to improve the health and well-being of Sikh Elders– by supporting them to live independently, and to live fulfilling lives. We are a dedicated Punjabi speaking team who provide specialised provision and support. We address the many issues affecting all elders in the community.

Touchstone Loves the Arts is the home for all Touchstone’s work within the arts for mental health and wellbeing. We support service users and members of communities that Touchstone serves to develop projects, workshops, and other arts interventions with the aims of promoting well-being and preventing mental health issues through creativity across West Yorkshire.

Touchstone Outreach & Prevention Service (TOPS) supports people street drinking in Harehills and the City Centre through regular outreach and drop-in sessions, including offering immediate support where possible.

The Well-Bean Hope In a Crisis Café supports anyone in a crisis – it provides a safe place for people in crisis to go and to prevent avoidable attendances at A&E. The Well-bean cafe has been set up by Touchstone and the Basement Recovery Project, a Huddersfield social enterprise. It is funded by NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group.

This project works with people with lived experience and our partners across all sectors to understand the current experience of users and families of Autism and ADHD services and assess ways of improving services and addressing social inequalities faced by neurodivergent people.

Touchstone will be responsible for the co-production element of the project, ensuring voices from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences are involved in every aspect of the project.