West Sussex Mind’s objectives are:

• To promote the preservation of good mental health, in particular around enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and recover from their condition.

• To relieve the needs of people with mental health problems by working to increase an understanding of mental health and mental health problems by gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness, promote understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination.

 
To achieve these objectives, West Sussex Mind offers a variety of services including the delivery of individual and group mental health and social support in person, by telephone or video calls to children, young people, families, adults and the elderly. West Sussex Mind’s mental health services can also be accessed using its website and through courses and videos, and it works proactively and in partnership with many other health, social care and community organisations to deliver its support.  

The purpose of East Head Impact’s grant is to fund a new West Sussex Mind mental health programme involving the training of ‘peer volunteers’ who will use their own experience of mental health to help others. The grant will help West Sussex Mind to develop and deliver the training programme, create opportunities for peer volunteers to help West Sussex Mind deliver its services and develop a supportive pathway that will help peer volunteers take the next steps into either employment, external volunteering or further education.