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ISSUE 1 2019 IN THIS • Princes Trust Pilot Partnership • Focus On EDITION • Morven Day Services Exhibition • Annual National Forum • Moderator’s CrossReach Visit • Scottish Care Awards Getting into Health & Social Care Getting to know you Rt Rev Susan Brown visits some With The Prince’s Trust of our services in the Highlands In Partnership with CrossReach OUR • Children and Families • Learning Disabilities • Counselling and Support • Mental Health SERVICE • Criminal Justice • Older People AREAS • Homeless People • Substance Misuse www.crossreach.org.uk Prayer Points Give thanks for our partners “Telling Truths – Changing Lives” will be the theme of this year’s and supporters who journey Annual General Meeting, which will take place in Edinburgh (13th – 15th March 2019). with us in providing support for the people of Scotland. CrossReach is a member, and in partnership with The Church and Society Council of The Church of Scotland, we look forward to welcoming our colleagues from across Europe to Scotland. Give thanks for 150 years of social care support delivered Look out for more information on our Social Media channels and website. by the Church of Scotland. Morven Day Services committee members and the Recovery Walk National Forum as they plan for events in 2019. Recovery is a journey and is often represented by people walking People who feel lonely and routes across towns and cities to represent the ups, downs, twists isolated and give thanks that and turns in each individual’s story. the Guild has chosen ‘Join In April, The Rt Rev Susan Brown will the Dots’ as one of be joining with volunteers, staff and their projects up to 2021. people we support to walk around Edinburgh, take in some of the sites Our staff and volunteers as and to informally share life stories. they support and care for Look out for updates on our Social others. Media channels and website. If you would like to receive our free Prayer Diary, please call: Guild Project 0131 657 2000, or download a PDF version from: Our Join up the Dots project is a www.crossreach.org.uk collaborative partnership between CrossReach and the Guild to tackle the problems of loneliness and Our Mission Statement social isolation in Scotland. We have thoroughly enjoyed and In Christ’s name we seek appreciated meeting Guilds the to support people to achieve length and breadth of Scotland, the highest quality of life as we share how their support which they are capable of can make a difference to people achieving at any given time. of all ages. Published by CrossReach. Please feel free to use any material or articles contained in this magazine, with an appropriate credit. CrossReach, Charis House, 47 Milton Road East, Edinburgh. EH15 2SR. Telephone: 0131 657 2000, Fax: 0131 657 5000, Email: [email protected] Social Care Council Operating as CrossReach Scottish Charity number: SC011353 www.crossreach.org.uk 2 Did you Chief Executive Chat know? It’s always been the CrossReach way to encourage people to Amazing, inspirational, choose and shape their own welcoming, life care and support. transforming and a real Our mission is to make sure demonstration of love in action. These words are echoing that everyone who comes to us in my ears as I sit down to write “achieves the highest quality of this piece and as we come out of life which they are capable of a remarkable couple of months for achieving at any given time.” CrossReach. The words are a few Within the wider social care of those used to describe the staff sector, the idea of giving you and volunteers working in each of our service areas as well as in choice about the care you our central and regional offices. receive is called Personalisation. They followed events such as The The way it is being delivered Bungalow winning specialist care across Scotland is via a system home of the year at the National known as Self-directed Support. Care Home Awards, the fun filled 60th Anniversary of Oversteps Care Visit our Self Directed Support Home in Dornoch, the opening YouTube channel to learn more: celebration of our Erskine Waterfront bit.ly/CrossReach_SDS Education Campus and the central offices achieving Customer Service partners such as Portakabin and Excellence. CALA Childcare have found The staff group are indeed innovative ways of getting involved remarkable and whilst tributes like and making a difference. 2019 will these are often paid at ‘special’ see us working alongside one of our times, it is with grateful thanks that longstanding partners, The Church I acknowledge that these attributes of Scotland Guild, as we tackle are demonstrated throughout the loneliness and isolation through year. In every area of our work the Join up the Dots project. It will they play such a major role in our also be a year when we continue to ambitions to deliver high quality care invest in new partnerships, such as to all who are in need. The present the one supporting young people staff group follow in the footsteps into a career in care with The Princes of thousands who have preceded Trust which you will read about in them over the past 150 years. In this edition of CrossReach news. 1869 the General Assembly founded Bringing committed people the Committee of Life and Work together to find answers to issues to help find answers to areas of of social concern and help alleviate social concern and bring together the challenges experienced in Our Heart for Art service, committed individuals interested our communities is as real for supported by Life Changes in alleviating the challenges CrossReach today as it was for Trust, created the 2018 Scottish experienced by others. That legacy The Committee of Life and Work Care Christmas Card artwork. of love in action is a strong one and 150 years ago. If you would want is still as much in evidence in local to be part of that community and church settings as it is in the formal are not already, please don’t hesitate social care provision offered by to be in touch. We look forward to CrossReach. We are looking forward working with our staff, volunteers, to marking that anniversary with you, friends and partners, old, new and in various ways, over the next 12 yet to be discovered, throughout months. the year ahead. Much of what has been done over Whatever your interest, thank you the past year, as indeed the past for being part of our story and for 150, would not have been achieved leaving your own legacy of love. without very real partners, from all Happy New Year. walks of life, who choose to walk alongside us. Partners who roll Viv Dickenson their sleeves up and get involved Chief Executive Officer, in so many different ways. From building modular schools to building Secretary of the Social intergenerational relationships, Care Council 3 Section Get into Health & Social Care: A pilot partnership with The Prince’s Trust “We are really delighted with the outcome of our recent collaboration between CrossReach and Prince’s Trust. We are always looking for ways to open doors to help people into care and support roles, because at certain times in our lives we all need a helping hand. And it’s not just the people who use our services who benefit. Our employees tell us that one of the best benefits of working with us is making a positive difference to some who need help.” – Mari Rennie, Director (Human Resources and Organisational Development). 2018 saw us trialling this new initiative and it is one we plan to take forward into 2019. In partnership with The Prince’s Trust, we offered a 5 week training course for young people who were interested in working within Health and Social Care, in and around Glasgow. People aged between 16 – 30 who were unemployed and interested in a career in the Health & Social Care sector applied to join the Prince’s Trust’s free employability programme. The results were inspiring and humbling: “Before these past 5 weeks I felt so down-hearted after a traumatic experience 3 years ago when I lost my ad on Facebook for the Health and Social Care Course daughter and all sense of who I was but since I have I thought to myself ‘this is what I really want to do’. gotten a place on this course I have found a sense of purpose in myself as an individual and met new friends I have always had a passion to help others, but I didn’t along the way…Since I did my placement in Threshold believe in myself or think I would be successful. Now [Glasgow] I have completely changed my opinion, all I can stand here today and proudly say ‘I made it’! I can through my time there the staff and customers were now say ‘I feel so much happier and positive about my so supportive, offering advice whenever possible. life’…I would like to thank all the staff and kids at The Mallard and The Garrett…I loved every minute of my Thanks to all the support I have had from The Prince’s placement.” - Caitlin Trust and CrossReach, this has equipped me with the knowledge that I need to close the chapter on what “I had no idea of how great and life changing it would was. Now I can open new doors to fresh opportunities. be, as before I was just a woman with two kinds and Thank you all.” - Steph not a lot of confidence. I just thought this will be an “I’d like to say a massive thank you to The Prince’s Trust opportunity for me to get a job.