A Warm Welcome To Our Newest Members
24 July 2015
Over the past few months SMN has welcomed a variety of mentoring projects to our membership. Some of our new members have well established mentoring projects whilst others are just discovering the benefits that mentoring can bring. New members are working under various themes and all new members have a profile on our website. We encourage anyone interested in these projects to utilise our ‘Mentoring Map’ to find out a bit more about our newest member projects; the details of the lead contact for any mentoring activities within a project is shown on each individual profile.
Below is a list of our newest members along with a little information on their work and interest in mentoring:
- Addictions Support and Counselling (ASC) Forth Valley: has been working in the Forth Valley area for forty years, aiming to provide a range of counselling, community rehabilitation and peer support services for people affected by substance misuse to help them on the road to recovery. ASC Forth Valley has recently introduced a new peer support service for people in recovery to develop their skills and become more involved in supporting recovery both within substance misuse services and their local community. The role of peer mentoring is essential in spreading the recovery message and inspiring people affected by substance misuse to consider options for change.
- Hillcrest Group of Companies: provide housing and support in Dundee, Edinburgh, Angus, Perthshire, Fife and Glasgow aiming to provide care, social enterprises, wider role services, skills, training and employment opportunities. Plans are under-way to develop the group’s internal coaching and mentoring approach as well as developing a peer mentoring program within Gowrie Care Ltd’s homelessness services in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
- Mental Health Foundation Space & Time Project (Stirling & Clackmannanshire): is operated in Stirling and Clackmannanshire, in conjunction with Action in Mind, to offer one to one peer support for mental health carers. Carers are matched with a volunteer peer mentor who has lived experience of supporting someone with a mental health problem and can use that experience in a positive and therapeutic way to help guide and support their peer.
- Shaw Trust Scotland: is a national charity that helps people facing disadvantage to find work, gain skills and take control of their futures. Volunteer mentoring is becoming an increasingly important part of the Trust’s work, especially at the Trust’s Horticultural Social Enterprise in Perth which aims to give local people work in a horticultural environment, which can be used as a stepping stone into employment. Volunteer mentors work with people with a range of support needs as they complete their daily tasks training in horticultural and employability skills.
For more information and contact details for our newest members please visit our ‘Mentoring Map’.
