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About Us
Our Aim:Enfield Mental Health Carers is a non-profit making organisation which was formed specifically to meet the needs of Carers in the Borough of Enfield, who were caring for someone with mental ill health on an unpaid basis.
What is a carer?Carers are people who look after a partner, husband or wife, son or daughter, relative or friend with a disability or illness. Many carers live with the person they care for, but many look after someone who lives independently, in supported accommodation, in hospital, or in a residential or nursing home.
Carers are family members or friends who look after someone without pay or financial reward. They are sometimes known as 'informal' carers.
Carers may be as young as 7 or 8 years, looking after a disabled parent or other siblings.
Carers can be older people themselves, perhaps in their 80's looking after a partner or friend of similar age.
Anyone looking after a person with an illness or disability, whatever their situation, is considered a carer with equal rights to help, support, information and services.
Our Objectives:
- To offer support, advice, information and advocacy to relatives and carers of people suffering from mental ill health.
- By providing someone to talk to in times of crisis, someone that understands the situation, experience and problems carers face, and also to address the anxieties, despair and depression which may accompany having a relative or friend suffering from mental ill health.
- To provide carers with an opportunity to have someone they know to accompany them when asked to attend meetings and reviews concerning the person they care for and to ensure that they receive their rights as carers.
- To provide a programme of training that will enable carers to participate fully in the development and planning of mental health services, and to ensure that they are able to make positive representation of their views and needs.
- To provide carers with regular forums to meet the providers and purchasers of local mental health services where they could exchange views on mental health services, and discuss issues and problems that affect them.
- To increase public knowledge and awareness of mental health, and the needs of users and carers.
- To campaign for readily available information to users and carers on various medication in use and their side effects.
- To campaign for increased information about the services and resources available to users and carers, and for easier access to these services.
- To campaign for positive involvement of carers in the care and after care planning arrangements for their relatives.
The organisation is a registered charity as well as a company limited by guarantee. The governance of the organisation is undertaken by our Management Committee who are trustees and also directors of Enfield Mental Health Carers. The service is user led since majority of the trustees are mental health carers themselves. Membership to our Management Committee is open to anyone over the age of 18. We are constantly looking for individuals to join our Management Committee since their skills and expertise would be utilised in the service that we run.
If you're interested in becoming a Management Committee Member contact us on 020 8360 8822.