EVR’s Mental Health Programme
EVR’s Mental Health Programme (Phase 2) has been funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The programme aims to expand mental health support to members of ESEA communities through a wide range of services. These services include group therapy, 1:1 counselling sessions for support workers and nurses, cultural competence training for mental health practitioners, administrative staff of various service providers in England, and a befriending programme for newly arrived ESEA students in the UK.
Group Therapy
Experience of racism, hate and isolation can have an impact of one’s mental well-being.
Groups can act as a support network and a sounding board. Other members of the group often help you come up with specific ideas for improving a difficult situation or life challenge, and hold you accountable along the way.
Group therapy sessions are facilitated by trained, culturally competent and accredited psychotherapists. The sessions are confidential.
Individual Counselling for Support Workers and Nurses
Supporting and caring for others can be both rewarding and demanding. Individual counselling for support workers and nurses offers a confidential space to explore the complexities of their roles, navigate personal challenges, and enhance self-care practices. If you are a nurse or a support worker for ESEA communities, through tailored sessions, you will be able to address burnout, develop coping strategies, and cultivate resilience, ensuring you can continue to provide compassionate care while prioritising your own well-being. With guidance from trained professionals, you can gain valuable insights, and foster a healthier work-life balance, ultimately empowering yourself to thrive in your vital roles of supporting others.
Friendship Family Project
We support incoming students from East and Southeast Asian countries in England by providing them a community through the Friendship Family Project (befriending). This supports their well-being in a new country and makes them feel less isolated and lonely. It gives befrienders a meaningful opportunity to volunteer, make a new friend and meet a new culture.
If you want to befriend an incoming ESEA student in the UK, sign-up using the button below. We conduct training with all our volunteers.
Cultural Competence training for Mental Health Practitioners, Nurses & Support Workers
We have partnered with The Anti-Discrimination Focus (#TADF) to provide cultural competence training to 100+ mental care care practitioners & support workers in the UK who support people with ESEA heritage.
Training sessions are facilitated by professionals who have spent years working in the field of mental health.
Cultural competence is the ability to understand and interact effectively with people with different cultures. By equipping you with the awareness, skills, and strategies to understand a person’s cultural context(s), worldviews and differences, we will be able to work more deeply and empathically in understanding a person’s communication and difficulties relative to their cultural contexts and personal belief system.
On Your Side
On Your Side is a new, UK-wide support and reporting service for anyone in the UK who identifies as East and Southeast Asian who has experienced racism or any forms of hate.
Free 24/7 UK-wide support available
If you encounter racism or hate directed at you or somebody else who is, or is assumed to be, East and Southeast Asian, we're here to listen offer support and, if you want us to, tell others what has happened. No matter how small you think someone else will think it is On Your Side is here because whatever has happened, you deserve to be listened to and taken seriously.
Whether you want to find local counselling services or are worried about what would happen if you decided to report to the police, or you just want to talk to somebody who is on your side, our trained Helpline Operators and Support Workers are here for you.