PLEASE NOTE: The County Durham Resilience service is a community support service for adults (18 years and over). We aim to build resilience within communities in County Durham. This includes; where people feel lonely and isolated, and have experienced mental health difficulties, which includes those impacted by COVID. The service is based upon a recovery framework, and building resilience is at the centre of everything we do. We are here to help people, bridging the gap between services, and helping to improve social wellbeing and mental health.
Our service offers lower-level community support to build emotional resilience and improve mental health predominantly out in the local community or via telephone or virtually. We support adults who live or work in County Durham however please note we do not cover Darlington.
We understand you may have limited information you can provide so we ask that you are able to confirm consent, provide contact details for yourself and the person coming into the service alongside what they are hoping to get support for from the service as mandatory on this form.
We appreciate any additional information you are able to provide alongside this however recognise this may not always be possible.
We require consent of the person coming into the service to be able to move things forward. We will store the information on this form securely. To provide support, we will share details with Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS and other voluntary and community organisations as part of this multidisciplinary service.
We may also share personal information with other NHS and charity organisations to provide further aide and support to the service user.
Is the person whose details you are sharing, aware of them coming into our service , and have you gained their consent?
Please click here for Privacy Statement information - to read details of how our service collects, holds and uses information in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Any client who comes into the service who develops symptoms of COVID-19 should inform us of this at the point of joining us, first contact and/or prior to any face-to-face contact.
* For someone coming to the service direct themselves, please tick to select you are consenting for us to contact
The Equality Act 2010 defines a disabled person as "someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities."
Any other relevant information you would like to share
- For example, details around why the person is coming into the service, specific support needs, background information, useful information for arranging sessions etc.
- If there are several aspects of need please state if signposting / transfer to other services have been done already and if any other support is being provided.
- Is there any risk to self and/or any risk to others?
- Have you ever had or currently going through any criminal investigations?
- Note: Risk does not necessarily exclude people from our service however there needs to be plans to support the client to manage their risk safely with involvement of other appropriate services to work alongside our work