Devon Recovery Learning Contacting the Community (DRLC): Devon Partnership Link Centres: NHS Trust Devon Recovery Learning Community provides a number of varied free courses BARNSTAPLE to people with lived experience of Alex Road Link Centre mental health difficulties, their family 19c Alexandra Road Barnstaple EX32 8BA and friends and the professionals who t: 01271 322 943 support them. The courses provide learners with BIDEFORD North knowledge about the experience of Torridgeside Link Centre The Old School House mental distress and what Recovery Higher Gunstone Devon Link means. They also provide learners with Bideford EX39 2DG skills to manage mental health problems t: 01237 421 590 and look after their own wellbeing. ILFRACOMBE Service Link Centres work with DRLC to provide Ilfracombe Link Centre and host courses. Through the Link Belvedere Road Centre you can find out more about Ilfracombe Your Link to what courses are available in North North Devon EX34 9JH t: 01271 864 700 Devon, as well as by contacting DRLC: Recovery t: 01392 677067 HOLSWORTHY Holsworthy Link Centre www.devonrlc.co.uk 2 Well Park Western Road Holsworthy EX22 6DH t: 01409 254 729 Bideford

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Reference: 541/01/18 www.dpt.nhs.uk www.dpt.nhs.uk At the four Link Centres in North Devon You can refer yourself or be referred by you can benefit from some or all of the Recovery – what is it? other staff you are in contact with. You can following: get in touch to see if the Link Centre is the • Recovery is about building a meaningful right service for your level of mental health • At your own pace you can make use of and satisfying life, as defined by you. need. You can also arrange a visit to your safe and friendly drop in sessions to be Such a life can be with or without local Link Centre to see what it’s about. around others and be in contact. ongoing mental health symptoms and Link Centres offer: • Get support from staff and other clients difficulties. who know what experiencing mental • A major factor in Recovery is hope. • Peer support – contact and support health difficulties can be like. Working with and developing hope that from other people with experience of mental health difficulties • Get better at managing and living with things can change for the better. your mental health. Talking things over, • Recovery focuses on positives like health, • Drop in sessions – contact to suit how looking at choices, learning about how strengths and wellness not only illness, you’re feeling - from just being around we do and don’t do things - these can labels and symptoms others to actively socialising all bring benefits to our mental health. • We can find out what we can do to • Therapeutic activities and supportive • Practical everyday needs? You can get improve our mental health, work out groups including support for families support and sign-posting with things more about what we need to get there and carers like accommodation, money, physical and learn from others about what has • Activities including art/craft, sport, health, involvement in community life. worked for them. table tennis, using the internet, creative • Coming to a centre where you can cultural safely get involved at a level which suits • Experienced and positive mental how you are feeling. health support workers work • Learn to find and develop your own Recovery alongside people as they learn to resources, at a safe pace and with live with and recover from mental health support. problems • Get involved, socialise, make friends. • Check with local centre for availability of Hope additional activities e.g. Parent Support Friendly and supportive places Network, Community Groups like which can help you to live with and Breakfast Club, Walk n Talk. recover from mental health problems