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Who are we and what do we do?
This leaflet gives you some information about our team as well as how to contact us.
Our team can support you with many vulnerabilities and needs and offer support or signpost you to alternative support:
- Mental health
- Learning disabilities
- Substance misuse
- Domestic abuse
- Housing and benefits
- Gambling
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups (BAME) support
- Armed forces community
- Social isolation.
CJLDT have members of the armed forces community on the team that can provide support. If you would benefit from support then please contact us on: 0151 478 6550 (this is not a crisis line).
Alternatively Veterans HQ offer support to the armed forces community through the Criminal Justice System and offer a range of support packages. Contact Andy Cooke on 0151 261 9878 for more details.
Useful information
We are not a crisis service so if you feel that you are in mental health crisis and need support you can visit the mental health crisis team at:
- Aintree Hospital – Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, L9 7AL
- Royal Liverpool Hospital – Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP
- Southport General Hospital – Town Lane, Southport, PR8 6PN
- Arrowe Park Hospital – Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH49 5PE.
NHS talking therapy services to which you can self refer
- Talk Liverpool (Liverpool) – 0151 228 2300
- Access Sefton (Sefton) – 0300 303 2708
- Inclusion Matters (Wirral) – 0151 649 1859.
Other helplines are available
- Samaritans – 116 123
- Mental Health Matters – 0191 516 3500
- MIND – 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday 9.00am to 6.00pm) or text 86463.
The Life Rooms
The Life Rooms is a warm and friendly community hub that promotes positive mental health and wellbeing for all. Everyone is welcome to drop in and speak to a member of staff, sign up to a course or group, or simply relax and enjoy a drink in the café and a chat with friendly volunteers.
There are three Life Rooms at:
- Walton: Evered Avenue, Liverpool, L9 2AF – 0151 478 6556
- Bootle: 68 Merton Road, Bootle, L20 7AP – 0151 330 6462
- Southport: 23–35 Scarisbrick Avenue, Southport, PR8 1NW – 01704 383198
Substance misuse
- Addaction (Liverpool) – 0151 706 7898
- LCAS (Liverpool Community Alcohol Service) – 0151 529 4504
- Ambition Sefton (Sefton) – 0151 944 5334
- Wirral Ways to Recovery (Wirral) – 0151 556 1335
Other
- Veterans in Sefton – 0151 933 080
- Veterans HQ – 0151 261 9878
- Liverpool Domestic Abuse Service (Liverpool) – 0151 263 7474
- Citizen’s Advice Bureau – debt, benefits, housing, immigration support etc. – 0344 411 1444
- Involve North West – debt, benefits, employment, community support (Wirral) – 0151 644 4500
- Wirral Change – BME (Wirral) – 0151 649 8177
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