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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Last month My Time in Partnership with the Birmingham based Housing Association Ashram, played host to the eminent and highly regarded clinical psychologist Peg LeVine. Peg LeVine (EdD, PhD) is an Adjunct Professor at Monash Asia Institute (Monash University) and the Director and Associate Professor of Rural Mental Health (University of Tasmania). She is a scholar and practitioner of Morita Therapy.
As clinical psychologist/arthropologist and academic researcher, she consults in AustralAsia with a focus on contexts for mental health — post trauma. Dr LeVine provides supervision and training at the LeKond Institute in Victoria, Australia
Peg presented a seminar entitled ‘Therapeutic Sequence’ & Contexts for Community Mental Health’.
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Celebrate Carers Week
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Celebrate National Carers Week- Supporting the Emotional Needs of Carers
Six million people in the UK provide unpaid care and support to a friend or relative who could not otherwise manage because of illness, frailty or disability. Many carers are expeirencing depression and stress due to caring for a vunlerable adults. My Time CIC (a west midlands social enterprise that provides mental health and counselling services) is currently delivering a Birmingham wide Counselling and emotional needs service for Carers who need someone to talk to and seek advice about their situation.
Carers Week, which runs from 8 to 14 June, will highlight the enormous and often unrecognised role played by carers and boost efforts to provide better support and services to carers and those for whom they care for.
My Time CIC is currently researching the emotional and psychological needs of carers, for further information please contact Susan Mo at susan@mytime.org.uk
We are a Social Enterprise based in the West Midlands that delivers award winning counselling and support services that are culturally and faith sensitive. Please explore our website to find out more about My Time CIC
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My Time Parenting Fund Success
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Family Action for Choice Tomorrow
My Time is pleased to announce that is has recently received a grant from the Department of Children, Schools and Families to help parents, particularly, fathers support and look after their families.
Nationwide, there have been 90 successful organisations who will benefit from the 12 million grant made available through the Institute of Families and Parenting. The fund was set up by the Government in 2004 to give money to build and strengthen the work that the voluntary and community sector does with parents and families.
Baroness Delyth Morgan, Minister for Children, Young People and Families said:
“We are delighted to announce the additional support that will help strengthen family relationships, provide support to fathers and encourage greater take up of existing parenting services. By funding these services we aim to help vulnerable families and those who have not been able to easily get hold of the services they need.”
My Time’s Parenting Project Manager Amra Mekic, has been thrilled to pieces with the news, “This grant is a real victory for the families and parents that will benefit from the programme, something we have been fighting for, for a long time” , she said on receiving the news.
My Time proposes to support fathers and their families in a holistic ‘think family’ approach, that will enable a supportive partnership of voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure that all family members are able to access equal and appropriate support that meets their needs and takes into consideration language, culture, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and faith.
The project will officially launch in June, when the project will begin to receive referrals. For information about the project please email info@mytime.org.uk or contact our My Time office on 0121 766 6699.
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An exciting new partnership
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
A NEW innovative partnership begins to deliver culturally and Faith sensitive Low Intensity Service based in GP’s.
This year sees the launch of a brand new partnership between My Time, icap (Immigration Counselling and Psychotherapy) and Patti Gift alongside the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. The partnership has come together to provide a new culturally sensitive low intensity counselling service available through GP’s across Birmingham.
My Time will be providing four new advisors who can speak a range of community languages and who represent the many diverse communities of Birmingham. This service is part of the new IAPT Stepped Care Model as devised by the NHS to provide more preventative counselling and CBT.
This is a brand new innovative partnership between Third Sector organisations and the Foundation Trust to provide culturally appropriate and community based services for the diverse population of Birmingham to access.
icap provide counselling and psychotherapy mainly for the Irish community, while Patti Gift provide African based psychotherapy and mental health services. The new service will only be available through GP’s.
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