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ManHealth is not a suicide prevention service but we do prevent suicide.
ManHealth are the only voluntary sector organisation using a proactive approach to address the crisis of male suicide. ManHealth provide free peer support groups across County Durham, Darlington, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland for men who are going through a storm. We know that the intense emotional pain you can experience when life is not going to plan. You may have experienced trauma which can distort your thinking so it becomes harder to see possible solutions to problems. Because of these things you may be finding it difficult to connect with those who can offer support. Suicide might seem like the only way to make the pain stop. This is not true. Peer support offered by those who have a lived experience of mental ill health can help men live.
In 2022 ManHealth supported over 4000 men and provided over 8000 hours of free peer support.
Our Vision
Our Mission
ManHealth provides weekly ongoing peer support services to men who are struggling or need someone to listen and talk with. With peer support groups spread across the North East of England, our sessions are led by men with lived experience and provide hugely valued weekly respite and a safe place for men to discuss how they feel.
With an ethos of sharing and education, our groups enable peer to peer empathy, an experienced ear and most importantly, friends that have walked the walk of mental ill health.
With an underpinning positive approach to learning about mental health issues, not only are our group facilitators trained internally to support them in helping others, but our sessions empower our service users through learning and awareness. Each session provides insight into a diverse range of challenges a service user may be experiencing from depression, to anxiety, self-awareness or sleep hygiene as examples. Through this, we encourage group discussion which consistently provides personal experience insight, a highly valuable aspect of peer to peer support.
In addition to our groups ManHealth organise specific activities that provide a physical focus to our men, with organised walking & football groups being very popular activities. In turn, these activities serve as great social interaction events, helping struggling men to improve their self-confidence.
ManHealth also provides fully accredited training and short courses for businesses enabling us as an organisation to raise awareness of men's mental and physical ill health and help others to contribute to that which is the biggest challenge, changing opinions on the need to address men's health inequalities, mental health and suicide.
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Monday 4th Dec
6pm-8pmBriardale House NE24 5AN.
Monday 4th Dec
6pm-8pmDarlington Friends (Quaker) Meeting House DL3 7NB.
Monday 4th Dec
6pm-8pmNewton Aycliffe Youth And Community Centre Burn Lane, Newton Aycliffe DL5 4HT
Tuesday 5th Dec
6pm-8pmSouth Approach Bullion Lane, Pelton Fell DH2 2DW
Tuesday 5th Dec
6pm-8pmMillennium Centre Library NE37 2QD.
Wednesday 6th Dec
6pm - 8pmHenknowle Community Association DL14 6TJ.
Thursday 7th Dec
6pm - 8pmZoom - This group is open to Dads going through a family breakdown, separation or divorce. A man enduring parental alienation, going through the court system, co-parenting or sharing care. For link email: admin@manhealth.org.uk
Thursday 7th Dec
6:00pm - 8:00pmDarlington Friends (Quaker) Meeting House DL3 7NB.
Friday 1st Dec
6pm-8pmManHealth have announced that we are teaming up with Darlington Mowden Park Rugby Club for the 2023/24 season.
We are delighted to have Kevin McMullan join the ManHealth team as our new workplace trainer.
We are delighted to receive a donation of £4627.50 from MRI Software to support the work we do to reduce male suicide
ManHealth was nominated by Mark Wylie who attends our Darlington group for a BBC Make A Difference Award.
The line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for people of all ages living in County Durham, Darlington, Teesside.
Phone: 116 123.