Our Services
Our Services
We have been a leading provider of community based mental health services for over 30 years, supporting people experiencing mental health difficulties, and their families and carers living principally in the Stirling Council area.
We offer a range of support services for people as young as 12 years of age and over – from Befriending, Counselling, Hub Centre (wellbeing and peer support) to Home Support and Rural Outreach. All our services are designed to be person-centred and underpinned by working towards holistic wellbeing and recovery from mental ill-health. We support people through their personal crisis and distress to where they feel safe and self-assured to meet day to day challenges with increased confidence and personal resilience.
We provide information and signposting to anyone who contacts us. In many cases calls are from people looking for help for themselves, or for a family member or friend because they are concerned about someone close to them.
We provide information and signposting to anyone who contacts us. In many cases calls are from people looking for help for themselves, or for a family member or friend because they are concerned about someone close to them.
How do I get a referral?
Referral to our core services is best done through your local GP.
Your GP will make an electronic referral on your behalf, having had a discussion with you about the service options that are available to you. Once we receive the referral we will get in touch with you to arrange a meeting with the appropriate service manager. This may be at your home or at our offices.
To access our Home Support service, you must first receive a Social Work assessment from your local authority – either Stirling, Clackmannanshire or Falkirk.
If you already receive a mental health service from the NHS but feel you need more social support then you can be referred by your psychiatrist, community psychiatric nurse or other health and social care professional such as a social worker, health visitor, physiotherapist or occupational therapist, for example.
We are not a crisis service but we can help direct you to the best possible option for you at this time. This may be about encouraging you to contact your GP for an appointment, or giving you telephone helplines that are available out of office hours for you to contact. This information can also be found on our Need Help Now? page.
You may want to know more about our services and discuss with someone how we can help you or someone close to you. In this case, we can talk you through our various services over the phone, or send you some electronic or printed information about our services.
It is our mission to be the best we can in supporting and enabling people to achieve good mental health and wellbeing; to develop their full potential, realise their hopes and aspirations, and to lead fulfilling lives.
Our vision is a time when people experiencing mental ill-health feel themselves accepted and valued as they are and not defined by their mental health, and that they feel free of stigma and discrimination.
Projects & Themed Working
Action in Mind has a longstanding history of working together with other organisations that share similar values and charitable objectives to ourselves in terms of mental health, but also with those local and national organisations whose areas of interest and focus are aligned with our work.
