Mental Health

What's Going on?

Child Related Services

Merseyside Family Support Association

Netherton Activity Centre
Glovers Lane, Netherton, Liverpool, L30 3TL
Tel/Fax: 0151 525 5467
Opening Time: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 4.00pm

Offers emotional support and practical help for families who have or are about to have a child placed in local authority care.

Sure Start Sefton
Contact: Liz Millingon/Karyn Wells
Tel: 0151 920 4389
Sure Start Sefton is part of a Government initiative, aimed at ensuring that pre-school children have the best possible start in life.

Education, Training, Work, Personal Development
Worklink

103 Stanley Road, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 7DA
Tel/Fax: 0151 933 3526
Email: worklink@rehab.u-net.com

Works with people who have experienced serious, short or long term mental health problems. Worklink is not an employment agency. Their aim is to help people back toward the workplace and other worthwhile activities such as voluntary work and further or higher education. They run various courses and have support workers who work with individuals.

Community: Mainstream
Tel: 0151 709 2366
Email: mainstream@imagine.live.org.uk

Mainstream provides mental health awareness, promotion and integration into mainstream activities. Workers will meet people in Sefton. Mainstream are looking to recruit volunteers.

Netherton Feel Good Factory
32 Marlon Square, Netherton, Liverpool, L30 5QA
Tel: 0151 330 5808

Counseling
Ask your G.P about their practice-based counselor.

Compass
25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ
Tel: 0151 708 6688
Opening Time: Office 9.00am to 5.00pm
Counseling 9.00am to 9.00pm

Compass offers a free counseling service to adults in Merseyside and beyond.

To promote and improve the health, well-being and quality of life of Sefton residents.

Sefton Choices
Goddard Hall, 297 Knowsley Road, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 5DF
Tel/Fax: 0151 922 3760
Opening Time: Monday to Friday - 9.00am to 4.00pm Tuesday 9.00am to 8.00pm
All times by appointment only
Provides support to single parent families, couples having marriage difficulties.

Advice Information

Citizens Advice Bureau
Bootle
297 Knowsley Road, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 5DF
Tel: 0151 922 1114

Provides advice, information and advocacy across a wide range of subjects. The service is independent and provides free confidential impartial advice.

Health Information and Advice
Burlington House, Crosby Road North
Waterloo
L22 0QB
Tel 0151 920 5056

Provides health education literature and advice on Health Promotion Programme Development.

Support Services
The Samaritans
Local Tel: 0151 708 8888
National Tel: 08457 909090
Minicom Tel: 08457 90 91 92
A 24-hour telephone listening help line.

Calm
Freephone helpline: 0800 58 58 58
(between 5.00pm and 3.00am)

Making Space
MHRC, 12 Haigh Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 3XP
Tel: 0151 928 1044
Opening Time: 24-hour answerphone

Provides general information, advocacy, practical and emotional support to families supporting an individual with experiencing sever mental illness.

Sefton Support Services
151 Stanley Road Bootle, Liverpool, L20 3DL
Tel: 0151 284 0025/0027
Fax: 0151 286 3052

Provider of care in the community services for people with mental ill-health and/or learning disabilities via residential community and day support.

Upstairs @83
83 Stanley Road, Bootle, L20 2DP
(Next to Doctor Goldberg's surgery)

Victim Support Scheme - Bootle
Goddard Hall, 297 Knowsley Road, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 5DF
Tel: 0151 933 1006
Fax: 0151 933 9601
Opening Time: 9.00am to 4.00pm
(Drop in 9.00am to 1.00pm - 1.00pm - 4.00pm by appointment only)
Support victims of crime in the Bootle, Seaforth, & Litherland areas.

Housing
25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ
Tel: 0151 709 2366
Fax: 0151 707 9904

Imagine provides a supported housing.

South Sefton Primary Care Trust has identified mental health as one of it's local priorities.