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 What the support looks like   

 1-2-1 Peer Mentor support  

Our peer mentors can offer you 1-2-1 support for a number of sessions. This is either done out in the community or online or both.

What our peer mentors are: 

• talk openly about what they’re feeling and experiencing 
• explore ideas and approaches others have found helpful 
• feel reassured that they are not alone 
• connect with others and strengthen their sense of belonging 
• recognise their strengths 
• build self-esteem and confidence 
• feel more hopeful about the future 

Connectors –  

We will help you to explore activities, try out new opportunities and support you to attend until you feel happy to go alone.

Advocates – 

We will represent you while supporting you to find your voice for yourself.

What our peer mentors are not:

Counselling –

We can help to signpost you to some fab counselling services, but we are not trained counsellors.

Therapists –

Our mentors are experts by experience, not trained therapists, if you think this is the level of intervention that you think you or the person you are nominating needs, then this isn’t the right support for you.

Unlimited support –

While our mentor’s are committed to supporting you, our goal is to support you to feel more empowered with your own mental health, and to equip you to be able to better deal with life’s every day challenges.

Children/Adult Social Care –

We work very closely with Children and Adult Social Care, but we are not an alternative to them, our support is quite different.

For more information about our projects contact sally@fuseperformance.co.uk M: 07866771601

FUSE PERFORMANCE   support young adults who have an interest in being creative and offering opportunities to experience and take part in performance / creative, visual, arts, outdoor arts activities and promoting physical activities. We provide a safe space to explore different pathways and interests. 

Fuse work within cultural partnerships, Bridgwater Cultural Partnership, Taunton Creative Forum and with organisations across Somerset to support diversity, inclusion and participation. We aim to help you develop skills to feel more positive and connected, and explore opportunities in the wider community or to join a new group or take part in a new activity. 

Partnerships

SASP  Area the project lead and support  young people in Somerset, offering them an opportunity to engage in positive experiences through sport and physical activity. We support young people in a safe environment to develop life skills, confidence and self-esteem through sport and physical activity.

2BU-Somerset provides a specialist service supporting the needs of younglesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ+) people across Somerset. 2BU We want to support you to a place of healthy self-acceptance. We provide a safe environment for LGBTQ+ young people to come together and gain support from both staff and peers.

At MINEHEAD EYE we offer new opportunities to get involved in art, sports, music, hospitality, youth work and I.T. Enabling and encouraging young adults to become more involved with their communities as well as enhancing their positivity. We aim to help young adults raise their self-esteem, resilience and aspiration to make positive choices in their lives through joining specific activities and clubs or other active community groups

Young Somerset support the mental health and wellbeing of young people through working alongside them in an open, honest, respectful and trusted way. We offer support through activities both 1:1 and small group, building on strengths and interests so that the young people can follow their own path to alleviate their mental health and wellbeing difficulties.