Wellbeing services

Rochdale and District Mind offer a wide variety of wellbeing services to help local residents. The first step in accessing any of the help available at Rochdale and District Mind is to complete a referral form and to meet a Wellbeing Coordinator to discuss your issues. You and your Wellbeing Coordinator will then build up an individual action plan to tackle your issues.

Support Groups and Courses

Rochdale and District Mind provides a number of issue-specific support groups. These groups offer the opportunity to talk to others who know what you are going through in a safe and supportive environment. They give members the space to share stories and coping strategies. These include:

Dementia Carers Support Group

Our support group focuses on the emotional wellbeing of carers of people with dementia. Join our weekly Whatsapp group and fortnightly Zoom session. For further information contact Shagufta on 07837 805 205 or [email protected]

Weekly Whatsapp support group Mondays 1-2pm

Fortnightly Zoom session Thursday 11-12 noon.

Bereavement & Loss Group Course

You can grieve for any loss – Grief is part of life for everyone. It’s not only about death: you also grieve if you lose your job, health, relationships, dreams, pets, or anything else important to you. 

We’re running a group course over a 16 week period to help people who are struggling with bereavement & loss. Please get in touch for a place on this course. 

Starting Tuesday 10/11/2020 6pm-8pm on Zoom

Women’s Wellbeing Support Group

All our group members will receive telephone support and will have additional contact via WhatsApp or text messaging during the regular group times to help stay connected.

Wednesday 2.00 – 3.00pm

BAME Women’s Wellbeing Group

All our group members will receive telephone support and will have additional contact via WhatsApp or text messaging during the regular group times to help stay connected.

Thursday 1.00 – 2.00pm

Men’s Support Group

All our group members will receive telephone support and will have additional contact via WhatsApp or text messaging during the regular group times to help stay connected. We are also looking into Zoom meetings during group times.

Monday 10.30 – 11.30am

Anxiety and Depression Support Group

Our support group will be delivered via Zoom during the regular group times, continuing to provide a safe space for people to talk to others who know what they are going through.

Thursday 10.30 – 11.30am

Depression Management Course

We’re running a course over 12 weeks to help people who are struggling with Depression.

Our next course is starting in January, please get in touch for your place.

Anxiety Management Course

We’re running a course over 12 weeks to help people who are struggling with Anxiety.

Our next course is starting in January, please get in touch for your place.

Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Groups – Male and Female

Both our male and female survivors groups have telephone support, WhatsApp and Zoom meetings during group times to continue delivering a safe and supportive space.

These are two separate 12-week support groups to help participants to come to terms with childhood sexual abuse. You will have the opportunity to talk in a safe place and not be judged. Empowerment, Surviving and Thriving.

Female Survivors – Wednesday 1.00 – 2.00pm

Male Survivors – Monday 1.00 – 2.00pm

Social Cafes

Our Social Cafes covering Rochdale, Heywood, Middleton and Pennines are being held over Zoom. They are a fun, no-pressure way to break up your day and connect with others and new members are always welcome to pop on when they can.

Monday (‘Get Crafty’ Group take-over!), Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – 1:00 – 1:30pm

Living Life to the Full Course

This course uses a popular self-help format using the CBT model which is proven to help people develop life skills that help them tackle feelings of low mood, stress and distress. It empowers users to understand why they feel as they do, and to learn new ways of improving how they feel – the course aims to provide ready access to key information. The course is based on “Helping people to help themselves”.

The course is supported by a series of CBT self-help workbooks that can be used between the sessions. They encourage the reader to put what they have learnt into practice and to stop, think, reflect on what is being learned.

Please get in touch for a place on this course.

Wellbeing in Heywood

We work in partnership with Recovery Republic to deliver wellbeing activities and mental health services locally. For 3 years we have been awarded the Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Social Investment Funding (HMR SIF) to deliver this project. 

For further information about this partnership, please contact either Carl Cruse at Recovery Republic (01706 622722 ) or Alice Astley at Rochdale and District Mind 07766 140904. Alternatively, visit the Recovery Republic website.

For more information, please contact your Wellbeing Coordinator or to register please contact our Information line on 01706 752338.