Services Archives | CHUMS Charity https://chumscharity.org/category/services/ Supporting Mental Health - Improving Lives Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:05:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://chumscharity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Services Archives | CHUMS Charity https://chumscharity.org/category/services/ 32 32 CHUMS present at Reflections Event for Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes https://chumscharity.org/chums-present-at-reflections-event-for-bedfordshire-luton-and-milton-keynes/ https://chumscharity.org/chums-present-at-reflections-event-for-bedfordshire-luton-and-milton-keynes/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:05:23 +0000 https://chumscharity.org/?p=7989 Representatives from CHUMS Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service were proud to have presented at a special event held at Venue 360 in Luton on the 22nd May. The event, hosted by the East London NHS Foundation Trust took place to reflect on the progress achieved in mental health care across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes over the

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]]> Representatives from CHUMS Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service were proud to have presented at a special event held at Venue 360 in Luton on the 22nd May. The event, hosted by the East London NHS Foundation Trust took place to reflect on the progress achieved in mental health care across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes over the last five years.

Health and social care professionals, service users, carers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) partners gathered at Venue 360 in Luton on Wednesday, May 22.

It was organised by the BLMK Integrated Care System and involved the Trust and Central and North West Foundation Trust (CNWL), the area’s two mental health providers and VCSE partners.

The theme was to reflect on progress and consider what changes are needed to provide care that continues to meet the needs of the area’s communities and increased demand for care.

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]]> https://chumscharity.org/chums-present-at-reflections-event-for-bedfordshire-luton-and-milton-keynes/feed/ 0 Baby Loss Awareness Week https://chumscharity.org/baby-loss-awareness-week/ https://chumscharity.org/baby-loss-awareness-week/#respond Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:11:28 +0000 https://chumscharity.org/?p=7394 Baby Loss Awareness Week starts on Monday (9 October). Delivered by the Baby Loss Awareness Week Alliance, the campaign aims to support bereaved parents and families and to unite them with others across the world to commemorate their babies’ lives and lost pregnancies. It is a wonderful opportunity to bring those affected together as a

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Baby Loss Awareness Week starts on Monday (9 October). Delivered by the Baby Loss Awareness Week Alliance, the campaign aims to support bereaved parents and families and to unite them with others across the world to commemorate their babies’ lives and lost pregnancies.

It is a wonderful opportunity to bring those affected together as a community and reassure anyone touched by pregnancy and baby loss that they are not alone.

Here at CHUMS, our Baby Loss Bereavement Service has been running for 11 years, supporting bereaved parents and families – and some bereaved grandparents – who have experienced the devastation of losing their child.

How we can help

The Baby Loss Service offers bereaved parents and families assessment appointments, telephone support, individual and couple’s sessions, monthly Snowdrop support groups and a closed Snowdrop Facebook group.

We support bereaved parents and families following the death of their baby due to late miscarriage (18 weeks onwards), compassionate termination, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Support in subsequent anxious rainbow pregnancies can be provided, both through individual and couple’s sessions, monthly Rainbow groups and a closed Rainbow Facebook group.

Our offer also includes support to couples facing palliative diagnosis for their baby, through a mixture of face to face, telephone and virtual sessions, and we run a monthly Sunrise and Sunset group for bereaved parents who have experienced the death of a baby from a twin or triplet pregnancy, where they also have a surviving baby.

We have also recently started running a monthly Fathers Group.

In addition, we hold 2 event days each year in collaboration with Luton and Dunstable Hospital; a Summer Memory day and a Snowdrop Remembrance Service in December.

All of these services ensure we are offering understanding, advice, guidance, compassion, bereavement support and counselling; both immediately when it is most needed, and in the time ahead.

In 2021, there were 2,866 stillbirths in the UK, and an estimated 1 in 5 pregnancies end in miscarriage, based on those that are reported.

Over the coming week, we will be sharing stories and further examples of our work, and ways in which those who need to can access support.

Find out more

If you have been affected and wish to find out more about the services being offered to bereaved families, visit the Baby Loss section of our website to find out more.

Take a look at the Baby Loss Awareness website for additional support and information.

Find out which organisations are part of the Baby Loss Awareness Week Alliance on their website.

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]]> https://chumscharity.org/baby-loss-awareness-week/feed/ 0 CHUMS Young Carers attend latest Luton game https://chumscharity.org/chums-young-carers-attend-latest-luton-game/ https://chumscharity.org/chums-young-carers-attend-latest-luton-game/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:01:24 +0000 https://chumscharity.org/?p=7371 Luton Town Football Club Community Trust very kindly gave CHUMS some match tickets to the home-game against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday (23 September). Seven service users (five young people and two adults) from the Young Carers service, some of whom have have taken part in our Recreational Therapeutic Service (REC) activities in the past,

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Luton Town Football Club Community Trust very kindly gave CHUMS some match tickets to the home-game against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday (23 September).

Seven service users (five young people and two adults) from the Young Carers service, some of whom have have taken part in our Recreational Therapeutic Service (REC) activities in the past, went along with Bert Klemmer from the REC Service.

Bert said “We are so grateful to Luton Town FC Community Trust for the opportunity for CHUMS service users to attend Luton Town’s Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Everyone had an amazing time and for many it was the first game they had ever seen live!”

“It was wonderful to see the local Luton and Bedfordshire community coming together and supporting their team as one. It is well documented just how much sport can have a positive impact on those involved. Particularly if it’s a good result for the home team.”

The Premier League match ended in a draw: Luton Town 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers, resulting in the first premiership point for Luton this season.

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]]> https://chumscharity.org/chums-young-carers-attend-latest-luton-game/feed/ 0 Free WSPD Lunch and Learn Webinar: Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service https://chumscharity.org/free-wspd-lunch-and-learn-webinar-bedfordshire-suicide-bereavement-service/ https://chumscharity.org/free-wspd-lunch-and-learn-webinar-bedfordshire-suicide-bereavement-service/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:59:06 +0000 https://chumscharity.org/?p=7331 The CHUMS Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service (BSBS) will be hosting a lunch time webinar on Tuesday 12 September. The aim is to improve understanding of the postvention service that CHUMS provides to residents and professionals in Bedfordshire and Luton. This Lunch and Learn session starts at 1pm, is led by BSBS Speaker; Caroline Holley, and

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]]> The CHUMS Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service (BSBS) will be hosting a lunch time webinar on Tuesday 12 September.

The aim is to improve understanding of the postvention service that CHUMS provides to residents and professionals in Bedfordshire and Luton.

This Lunch and Learn session starts at 1pm, is led by BSBS Speaker; Caroline Holley, and is being delivered in recognition of World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) this Sunday (10 September).

Spaces are free but need to be booked via Eventbrite.

Book a space on the WSPD Lunch & Learn Webinar: Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service.

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]]> https://chumscharity.org/free-wspd-lunch-and-learn-webinar-bedfordshire-suicide-bereavement-service/feed/ 0 Recreational Service – Football https://chumscharity.org/recreational-service-football/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:08:13 +0000 http://avada.theme-fusion.com_demos/lifestyle/?p=42 How we use football to support students struggling with behavioural issues in school.

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How we use football to support students struggling with behavioural issues in school.

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