Working with our VCF sector
We commission a range of services from local voluntary, community and faith (VCF) organisations towards improving wellbeing and addressing health inequalities in Sefton. This supports our priority work in Shaping Sefton, our annual operational plan, ‘Highway to Health’, as well as the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Health and Sefton's Health and Wellbeing Strategy that we work on together with the council.
Organisation |
Description of the service |
Priority health areas addressed by services |
| Sefton Advocacy | Advocacy service for people aged 16+ |
Advocacy Supporting mental health, older people and Learning Disabilities agendas |
| Sefton CAB | Mental Health Project |
Advocacy support for in-patients at Clock View Hospital Mental health support Supporting hospital discharges |
| Imagine | Individual Placement Support Employment Service | Mental health support |
| Sefton CVS |
Children, Young People and Family Lead (Every Child Matters) Health and Wellbeing Development Officer & Support Officer Health & Wellbeing Trainers x 4 (Supporting South Sefton Virtual Ward Programme) Community Development Worker BME Communities |
Children and families Wellbeing and reablement Community and housing for people with mental health issues Support for BME communities |
| Alzheimer's Society |
Dementia Community Support Service Dementia Peer Group Support Service Improving Public and Professional Awareness Service |
Dementia support for patients and their families/carers |
| SWACA, Sefton Women’s and Children’s Aid | Women and Children’s Aid centre, Child and Adolescent Mental Health | Children and families – Domestic Violence Support |
| SWAN Centre |
Counselling and Listening Service Outreach Service Support Group - Staying Out Project |
Women’s Mental Health Support |
| Sefton Age Concern | Befriending and Reablement Service | Dementia support for patients and their families/carers Wellbeing and tackling loneliness for older adults |
| Expect | Service provided at Bowersdale Resource Centre | Support for people with mental health issues |
| Sefton Carers Centre | Advocacy for Parent Carers |
Children and families |
| CHART, Crosby Housing Reablement Team, | Crosby Housing Re enablement Team | Wellbeing and reablement |
| Netherton Feelgood Factory | Health Promotion | Wellbeing and reablement |
| Parenting 2000 | Children and families needing support: special needs, low self-esteem and confidence, emotional issues, drugs and alcohol, domestic abuse, bereavement | Children and families |
| Stroke Association | Intermediate Care (Carers and advocacy, Communication) | Wellbeing and reablement |
