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k your fu loc tu n re U Tow r Hamlets TOWER HAMLETS RECOVERY COLLEGE PROSPECTUS AUTUMN TERM 2019 CONTACT US For general enquiries Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0207 426 2332 Text: 07908 459 2389 If you have enrolled on a course you will be contacted beforehand to confirm your attendance. If this is not confirmed, your place may be given to someone else. If you would like to speak to a specific team member, our contact details are listed below: Jessica Prakash - Recovery College Manager Tel: 0207 426 2449 Mobile: 07908 459 239 Email: [email protected] Imtaz Khaliq - Peer Tutor Lead Tel: 0207 426 2449 Email: [email protected] Tahara Matin - Recovery College Administrator Tel: 0207 426 2332 Email: [email protected] Visit us on : https://www.elft.nhs.uk/tower-hamlets-recovery-college https://thrc.studioreception.net/ Follow us on www.facebook.com/TowerHamletsRecoveryCollege @CollegeTh All data is held securely by the Tower Hamlets Recovery College. Data will be treated confidentially and will not be disclosed to external organisations, other than related projects or for other legitimate reasons with your consent. The data will be used by the college to facilitate relationships with partner organisations, performance monitoring and mailing communications. You have the right to refuse the use of your data for any of the purposes list by contacting on the details above. Contents Welcome 1 LIFE SKILLS Testimonials 2 Courses to help you get the most out of everyday life About the College 3 Parenting and Recovery 22 How to Enrol 4 Psychological First Aid 23 Student Charter 5 - 6 Understanding the Mental Health Act 24 Team Away Day and Book Club 7 Introduction to using Social Media 25 Individual Learning Plan (ILP) 8 Dealing with a Crisis 26 Courses: Money Management 27 DISCOVERY YOURSELF GETTING INVOLVED Courses that help you to reach a deeper Courses on building work and study skills, understanding of yourself and your giving something back and moving forward experiences Getting into Volunteering 28 Tree of Life 9 Train the Trainer 29 Art for Recovery 10 Autumn Term 2019 Timetable 30-31 Islam and Mental Health 11 Gender, Masculinities and Venue information 32 Mental Health 12 Courses are delivered in community venues Sexuality, Gender and Mental Health 13 throughout the whole borough UNDERSTANDING HEALTH Courses to help you understand mental and physical health, diagnosis and services Understanding Sleep 14 Jinn, Black Magic & Evil Eye 15 Dealing with Depression & Anxiety 16 Understanding Psychosis 17 Dealing with Drugs and Alcohol Use 18 Suicide Awareness 19 Understanding Personality Disorders 20 Food and Mood 21 Library Opening Hours: Monday 2pm – 5pm Wednesday & Friday 11am – 2pm 2019-2020 Term dates: Spring Term: Monday 17th February – Friday 24th April 2020 Summer Term 2020: Monday 1st June – Friday 7th August 2020 Welcome Autumn Term 2019 Summer Term 2019 was a great success! Thank you to the students, tutors and college team members for all your support and hard work! The term started with some exciting news; we were successful in securing the funding for the college for the next 5 years! A huge thank you to everyone who helped write the tender submission. It was a big job and we are beyond grateful for the time and effort that was put into the submission! Thank you! This exciting news was sadly followed by a farewell to our beloved Fiona Ball, Peer Tutor Lead. Fi’s passion and commitment for mental health and ensuring the voice of everyone Autumn Term 2019 is set to continue the is equally heard and valued inspired many! upward momentum! We miss her boisterous laughter and jokes around the college- luckily she will continue We would like to warmly welcome our new teaching with us from time to time! Peer Tutor Lead, Imtaz Khaliq! Imtaz comes from Camden and Islington Recovery We would also like to specially thank Amanda College and she has a wealth of experience Kawa, an occupational therapist who was both lived and professional to bring to this based in our team for the summer term and role! We know that you will all make her feel who brought her expertise to teaching and welcome at the college! her positive can-do attitude to the team! Thank you! We are also welcoming some new team members and volunteers! Siobhan Finnegan Summer Term 2019 also hosted many events is an occupational therapist that will be based and new projects! Our Eid celebration was a in the college a few days a week. Although great success, enjoyed by students, tutors she has experience working in mental health, and community members! A selection of she is passionate and has an expertise in curries and live entertainment set the scene gender, sexuality, masculinity and related for a fun party! topics. Look out for new courses she will be coproducing! We also held our first book club in the library! ‘Words of Wellbeing’, a 6 week We are also excited to announce that we will book club involved reading excerpts from have classroom support volunteers starting two books around recovery and well-being with us next term. These volunteers will be followed by a discussion! The feedback was able to give practical, emotional and learning overwhelmingly positive and we hope to support to students in our courses. If you continue to offer this at the college! would like to know more about what support they can offer please contact us! The College also held its first team building away day which allowed us to reflect on the We hope this term will be just as exciting and year gone by, student feedback and plan for fulfilling as last term! Enjoy! the year ahead. The day finished off with a fun team painting activity- check out the photos! Jess 1 Welcome Testimonials Earlier this year I was invited to help present I joined the Recovery College during the a class on Art for Recovery. I worked with a summer term 2019 and I have attended a member of the Recovery College team to plan number of courses. and provide a workshop on the ways that creativity, in all its forms, can be helpful for Coming to the college has been a life saver both improving and maintaining good mental for me, as it has contributed to lift my health and stability. The day was divided in depression. two, with the first part involving discussion about the topic, and the second part gave I think the college is a great place for anyone people a chance to try out different kinds of who wants to learn about mental health or art-making. This was my first experience has mental health issues. of co-producing a class with Recovery, and I found the experience exciting, stimulating The peer and professional tutors, volunteers and hugely enjoyable. and staff have all been great, very professional, friendly and approachable. They have Recovery College’s approach is all delivered excellent courses with very useful about promoting inclusivity, equality and information and demonstrated excellent empowerment; people attending classes knowledge about the topics discussed in the are encouraged to contribute and take part sessions. I have learned a lot. in a non-hierarchical, supportive space. I felt that I was helping ‘guide’ rather than I really like the recovery college and I enjoy ‘teach’; the exchange of views, comments going to the Wednesday coffee mornings, and experiences had a creative energy where you can have a friendly chat (with and afterwards I felt like I had had my own coffee and cake!), I also love the book club, learning experience too. Attendees really got which is a great way of getting to know and involved in the practical art-making, and from reading books that deal with mental health the feedback it seemed that people definitely issues and discussing them afterwards in our got a lot out of this part in particular. The work group and socialising! produced was diverse, inspiring, sometimes experimental, always genuinely creative. Tower Hamlets Recovery College is a haven for a lot of people and is also a place where Recovery Classes are planned as organic, you can be supported by professionals, evolving events, and afterwards we were able where you can also get further information to look at the feedback people had given, about mental health and be referred to the think about what worked best, and start to appropriate services if needed. plan for future classes with these in mind, with the intention of providing something that can The college supports recovery and wellbeing continue to grow and develop. I look forward through education and it has been very to helping with future co-productions. And successful in my opinion. finally, maybe the best thing of all is there is no need for those attending to have any Nicky Libero particular level of skill, knowledge or ability - Student classes are open to anyone, all you need is an interest and willingness to try things out! Simon Noyes Art Psychotherapist Testimonials 2 Who is the college for? Who are the courses taught by? You are welcome to enrol as a student in What is special about us is that all of one of our courses if: our courses are designed and delivered by people who have lived experience • You have experience of using mental of mental health challenges, working health services in Tower Hamlets together with people who work in mental health services. We call this co- • You work in health and wellbeing production. services in Tower Hamlets Co-production is an equal relationship • You know or care for someone with between people who use services and mental health challenges in Tower the people responsible for services.
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