We support people with practical help like accommodation advice, alongside guidance on health, wellbeing, and employment. Our goal is simple: building lives & futures, helping people move from immediate support to long-term stability and opportunity.
Shekinah offer rewarding volunteer opportunities through our Learning Exchange programme, designed to encourage personal growth and skill sharing. These include Tai Chi, which promotes balance and relaxation, acupuncture, which can help alleviate stress and improve energy flow, yoga and art therapies to encourage mindfulness and creative expression. Volunteers can contribute their time to various community initiatives, such as tutoring, mentoring, or leading workshops in areas like wellbeing, music, philosophy, creative arts and nature. In return, participants gain valuable experience, build new skills, and connect with a diverse group of individuals, making a meaningful impact in the community while expanding their own knowledge. Whether you are looking to give back or learn something new, volunteering at Endeavour House provides a unique and enriching opportunity.
Services currently on offer at our Endeavour House location are:
Make Amends – Restorative Justice team Make Amends are located within the building.
Our Mental Health Community Development Team are also located at Endeavour House.
The Devon Mental Health Alliance (DMHA) has been commissioned as part of the Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF) programme to increase capacity for one-one and groups interventions and promote better system integration between community and statutory organisations.
DMHA is a partnership between six community organisations dedicated to providing support, information, and advice for people in Devon experiencing mental health problems. DMHA is working across four ‘footprints’ to reach every community in Devon. Each area has its own dedicated Community Mental Health Development Lead and a team of Recovery Practitioners led by a Locality Manager. Shekinah is the Community organisation which covers Torbay and South Devon, in which Bernie is the Community Development Lead (CDL).
Recovery Practitioners (RP) work Monday – Friday and hold a case load, they deliver Psychologically informed interventions through one to one and group work. They work very closely with the CDL who has their finger on the pulse of all evolving offers in the community. Please click here for the Recovery Practitioner Referral info.
If you would like to find out more about what we are doing or ask us any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at: info@mentalhealthdevon.co.uk
Course description: Discover the creative and calming art of Kinusaiga in this hands-on Learning Exchange workshop. Traditionally known as “patchwork […]
Course description: Finding Balance: Managing Stress, Anxiety, Depression & Anger is a supportive 4-week course designed to help participants better […]
Course description: Finding Balance: Managing Stress, Anxiety, Depression & Anger is a supportive 4-week course designed to help participants better […]
Mental Health Community Development Lead for Torbay and South Devon
I work across South Devon aiming to understand what is on offer for our communities to support people that experience Severe Mental Illness (SMI) I aim understand where the need is in our communities and seek out people and understand existing workflow across all sectors, Primary, Secondary Care and the VCSE sectors to enable teamwork, collaboration and coproduction. I have a passion for dissolving any barriers, boundaries and hierarchy across our communities to enable a fluid, supportive resilient services to support our communities as efficiently and safely as possible.
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We support people experiencing homelessness with practical help like meals, showers, and accommodation advice, alongside guidance on health, wellbeing, and employment.
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