The Starwork System

(Support, Time and Recovery or STR) workers

This is the latest brain child of the Mental Health Department.

The idea is to help people with conditions ranging from depression to schizophrenia, always on a one-to-one basis and usually in their home. People requesting Starworkers are referred by the community mental health team.

Starworkers are people who have suffered too.
They work as part of a team, focusing directly on the needs of people who ask for their help.
They provide Support, give their Time and promote Recovery.

Starworkers will not provide medical or clinical treatment.
Nor prescribe & monitor medication.
And won't section people under the mental health act.

But they will provide flexible, regular and practical support. And help people to live ordinary lives, promoting independence as well listening to people without judging them.

What do you think - Good idea ?




Love, light and Best wishes
Liz xxx
With hard work and determination and all the things you know.
The world is there for you to take. There's nowhere you can't go.


[:p]Scatty Eccentric & 'Poet Laureate to panic and anxiety'

I think it's a great scheme. Thanks Liz.

Do you know how extensive the network has got ?

As it is still only a pilot scheme there are only certain areas of the country that have the Starworker programme.

I know Hull, The West Midlands, Southern Cambridgeshire, Liverpool, Leeds and areas of London have them.

The powers that be tell me they aim to have them in every mental health team by 2008.

Love, light and Best wishes
Liz xxx
With hard work and determination and all the things you know.
The world is there for you to take. There's nowhere you can't go.


[:p]Scatty Eccentric & 'Poet Laureate to panic and anxiety'