Health Exchange’s Social Prescribing Team can help you by signposting valuable and available services in your local area; then encouraging and facilitating you to use them. For instance:
Social isolation and Integration
- Do you feel lonely or isolated?
- Just fancy a brew and a natter?
- Would you like to be involved in a new hobby?
- Just need a friendly ear?
Our Social Prescribers can:
- Introduce you to a local coffee morning, lunch club or day care
- Need help getting there? We can help with this too
- How about a new hobby? Or taking up an old one again
- We can refer you to telephone befriending services
General Wellbeing (Physical and Mental)
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of being outdoors to people’s mental and physical health
- Do you want to join a Walking Group?
- The Canals Trust have towpaths that are open to walkers, cyclists and anglers, making it the perfect urban escape.
- Want more access to green spaces?
- Do you have green fingers? Maybe a community allotment would be your cup of tea?
Our Social Prescribers can:
- Introduce you to local Groups and options to get you out and about
Finances, Benefits and Housing
- Struggling Financially?
- Unsure what you could be doing better?
- Not good with budgeting or organising money?
- Do you need help to access benefits for the first time?
- Do you need a benefits review?
- Do you need help with a Housing issue?
Our Social Prescribers can:
- Help you access a financial/benefits specialist support worker
- Help you contact and communicate with your Housing Officer
Technology
- Completing forms can be a daunting prospect for many, particularly as most forms are now completed online.
Our Social Prescribers can:
- Help you gain access to technology and be more confident using it
- Need help to set up an email?
- Search for a better insurance deal?
- Need help fill out a form?
- We can refer you to services that can help you complete PIP applications, Blue badge scheme, Settlement forms, Universal Credit
Goal Setting
- Do you struggle to set realistic goals?
- Do you feel like you don’t know where to start?
- Do you struggle to stick to goals?
Our Health and Wellbeing Coaches can:
- Help you set goals that are realistic and feel comfortable for you.
Motivation
- Unmotivated?
- Not sure you can achieve what you really want?
- Ready to make change but not sure where to start?
Our Health and Wellbeing Coaches can:
- Help to give you the skills, knowledge and tools that can motivate you to achieve the life that you would like
Diet and Exercise
- Do you feel like your diet isn’t quite right?
- Do you want to do more exercise?
- Do you want to join a class or group?
- Do you want help with nutrition?
Our Health and Wellbeing Coaches can:
- Help you to understand more about your diet, be referred to an exercise class or group, and have exercises tailored to you
Volunteering, Employment and Learning
- Do you have time on your hands and want to ‘do’ something in your community?
- Volunteering can help you access the workforce by giving you real time work experience
- Need help to write a CV?
- Do you need help finding and staying in employment?
- Do you want to learn a new skill?
- Do you want to improve your Maths or English?
- Learn English as a second language?
Our Social Prescribers can:
- Help you through the process of applying for a volunteer placement
- Refer you to a specialist employment key worker
- Refer you into adult education services
We are currently offering this service to many General Practices in Coventry & Warwickshire. Contact us for more information and use our Social Prescribing Directory to find out more.