“LGOWIT aims to raise awareness of the difficulties of living with lifelong chronic conditions, help people self-manage their conditions through training, education and fun; giving people the ability to control how they live their lives better and with confidence.
Support – Providing support through our Peer Support (Living Better) Groups and events throughout the Highlands. Bringing people together to help support each other.
Educate – Provide training to people living with long-term conditions to enable them to self-manage. Education and promotion of the key points of self-management.
Committed – Every event we organise, we are committed to giving the highest quality understanding to people’s needs and support them accordingly
Promotion – To promote in all ways possible the value of self-management and it’s integration in to the community.
“Our mission is clear. We’re here to help people living with mental ill-health ditch any stigma associated with it and feel like an important part of their community. We help them to live full and independent lives no matter what their background or the level of support they need.
We’re proud to have dedicated community support teams working in the Inverness, Easter Ross, Caithness and Lochaber areas and our pioneering residential mental health recovery centre was the first in Scotland and is currently one of just three such centres here.”
“Winston’s Wish provides bereavement support to children, young people (up to 25) and their families after the death of a parent, sibling or important person, along with online resources and training for professionals.”
“Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. We offer free, confidential bereavement support by telephone, video or instant messenger, wherever you live in the UK.”
“Our helpline is here to support anyone experiencing domestic abuse or forced marriage, as well as their family members, friends, colleagues and professionals who support them. We provide a confidential, sensitive service to anyone who calls us.”
“Scottish Autism is an organisation dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.”
Scottish Autism has an advice line available to anyone living in Highland. The advice line offers guidance, signposting and a listening ear to autistic people, their families/carers, professionals, really anyone who wants to reach out to us.
Get Set 4 Autism
Scottish Autism’s Get Set 4 Autism project provides post-diagnostic support to parents and carers of autistic children and young people up to the age of 18 years old across Scotland. The project aims to promote a greater understanding of autism, improve communication between parents and professionals, and ultimately equip parents with the information and practical skills they need to support their child.
A Mental Health peer support group for mums and birthing people.
“There is no stigma or judgment, you will find a kind caring community who have all had their own mental health journey and lots of special events like creative journaling, mindfulness and Q&A’s with our favourite perinatal psychologists”.
“We have an online meeting over Zoom every Thursday morning and on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in the evening. For those who can travel, we meet in person in Elgin on the last Monday of the month”
“Once you have been along to a Zoom or in person meeting you can join LATNEM Chat, our online peer support space on Facebook. LATNEM Chat is only open to people we have met so it’s a very safe place to be”.
Who is it for? Mums and birthing people in need of support with their mental health.
Information and resources for survivors of sexual violence.
Get in touch any day between 5pm – midnight:
Our helpline offers confidential short-term, crisis and initial support by phone, email and text. Our phone and email support is free and texts will be charged at your normal network rate.
We support people of all genders living in Scotland aged 13+ who have been affected by sexual violence. It doesn’t matter what happened or how long ago, and you don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to. We support survivors, as well as family, friends and supporters.
We can also put you in touch with local Rape Crisis centres or other services if you need longer-term support.
We can arrange for free language interpreters, including British Sign Language, to access support if your first language is not English. More information on Deaf access to support.
Text support Texts are charged at your normal network rate and your number is not visible to us when you text. For more information about confidentiality including our text support Find out more about confidentiality, including our text support, here.
Email support Email support is free and your email address will be visible to us when you email. We aim to reply to all emails as soon as possible, and no later than 4 days. Find out more about confidentiality, including email support, here.
At RASASH we provide free, confidential, person centred emotional and practical support, information and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence and abuse aged 13+, their non-abusing partners, family and friends.
We can also provide consultation, information, guidance and training to staff from other agencies who work with survivors of sexual violence. More Information
We work from the basis that each person’s circumstances, experiences and feelings are different and unique to them. We believe that survivors know best what their own needs are, and how they need to be supported. With this in mind, we offer support tailored to your needs. We can provide support whether your experience of sexual violence was recent or a long time ago, and whether or not you reported it to police.
All our work is based on a person centred, non-judgemental approach, and we aim to create a space that is safe, confidential, supportive, accessible and inclusive.
We offer a telephone support line, face to face support, information and advocacy, text and email and skype support. We can also offer the chance to meet other survivors in a group.
At present we can offer face to face support from our centre in Inverness. If you live further afield and can’t travel to Inverness, we can offer you telephone, email or skype support.
If you have chosen to report a sexual offence to police we can support you with that, and we can be there throughout the process and attend court with you.
Many people are unsure about whether or not to report to police and we can support you whilst you consider your options, and longer term, whatever your decision about reporting.
We can support you even if your experience of sexual violence or abuse was a very long time ago.
We have range of information booklets and leaflets covering issues such as child sexual abuse, self harm and managing symptoms of trauma.
Our staff are all female, and when we are supporting women or girls our centre is a woman only space.
Contact:
Telephone: 03330 066909 (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 9.30am – 1.00pm Tuesdays & Thursdays from 1pm – 4.30pm)
Advocacy: 07825 633801
Business: 01463 257657 Please note that this phone is staffed by non-support staff. Please do not use this number for any support or survivor related calls.
