Support With Mental Health

If you are supporting someone who has been physically, psychologically or emotionally injured in the British Armed Forces, we are here for you.  Whether you are a partner, parent, sibling, adult child or chosen family, we exist to be a community where you are seen, heard and supported.   We have 14 regional peer support forums, run virtual events such as book clubs, meet ups, quiz nights and wellbeing workshops, can support with employment and provide one to one navigation.

Anyone caring for a loved one with a service attributable, physical, psychological or emotional injury. No proof of injury is required.

Self or professional referrals for support can be made via www.theripplepond.org

The Veterans’ Mental Health Transition Intervention and Liaison
Service (TILS) is a specialist service supporting Armed Forces veterans,
experiencing a variety of challenges post-discharge.
Our goal is to quickly and accurately assess the support that you or a family
member might need and liaise with the services that can help.

Some of the issues we can support you with:

• Mental health difficulties
• Housing, finances and employment
• Referral to other services and charities
• Referral into our complex treatment service if appropriate
• Information to help families and carers

We work with people to identify and build their circle of support, which may be friends, family, colleagues, or supporters who form a group, supporting the person to make their own decisions about their life. YOU works in partnership with The EC Roberts Centre and HOPE Portsmouth to support people in crisis in our community.

The Project promotes independence, resilience and recovery from the impacts of COVID through developing Community Circles of Support. We have three Community Circles of Support Partners who help people through outreach, food banks, community larders/pantries and community meals across Portsmouth.

The Community Circles of Support Partners will undertake a holistic assessment identifying skills, potential, root causes of crisis, actions the clients want to take and identify strategies to help themselves for future situations.

The aim of Community Circles of Support Partners is to help people in hardship, including those with complex needs such as mental ill-health, domestic abuse and social isolation. They will benefit from improvements to their health, wellbeing, skills and independence and to understand how to take personal control of their situation.

STAR counselling is our Sexual Trauma and Recovery Counselling team working across the South of Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. We work with people who have experienced Sexualised Trauma, whether this be recent or non-recent rape, sexual abuse or sexual violence/crime.

We are an experienced and inclusive team of Counselling Practitioners trained to specialise in Trauma Informed Recovery. We understand that anyone can be affected by sexualised trauma and the wide range of impacts it can have.

We offer one-to-one counselling for Adults, Young people and Children at our dedicated counselling centres in Portsmouth and Fareham. These can be face-to-face, remote virtual counselling or via phone. We can also travel to you and meet in your community at a safe and confidential space.

STAR Counselling run specifically designed groups for mixed genders, single sex; women and men’s groups. We also run a group for people who identify as LGBTQ+. and children and young people’s groups too.

This is free to access counselling, we accept self-referrals and referrals from professionals.

We offer a variety of high and medium-low supported accommodation for clients experiencing homelessness, mental health or substance misuse issues. Referrals through Solent NHS.

We’re here to help you feel supported, valued, and able to thrive at university. Our Services include information and advice from our friendly MyPort team, specialist mental health and counselling, disability and money advice and chaplaincy support.


Find support contacts on https://myport.port.ac.uk/guidance-and-support, email myport@port.ac.uk, call +44 (0)23 9284 4444 or visit the MyPort desk at University House, Winston Churchill Ave, Portsmouth PO1 2UP.


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