Ways to Wellness is paying its learning forward this #SocialPrescribingDay by investigating the ways in which the delivery of community health services can best support specific groups of people.

In addition to hosting social prescribing link workers operating within some of of our pilot projects and prototypes, we often take a role grounded in research in order to further our mission to tackle health inequalities. 

Case in point is a study we're involved in to identify the ways in which link workers can best support young mums and birthing parents with their mental health. 

Ways to Wellness is to co-deliver a project to support young mums in the region with their mental health.

We have joined forces with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) and Sunderland Counselling Service to trial an intervention in which a specialist social prescribing link worker will offer both emotional and practical care to some of the women and girls in our communities most at risk of pre and postnatal mental health issues.

In this blog Rosie Mason, a Link Worker for the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board’s ‘Waiting Well’ programme shares some learning from the Ways to Wellness PROSPeR Project after six months of delivery.

As part of Suicide Prevention Week 2023, we look at the Suicide Prevention Fund grants 22/23 and explore who we reached and the impact this has had

The Northern Sub-Regional Suicide Prevention Group Grant Scheme 22/23 has come to a conclusion spring 23. This is the second of two blogs celebrating the work as we mark Suicide Prevention Week 2023.