Fast Track Covid Related Counselling (GB-SC-SC022910-FR-0060210)
Funding Organization
£2,000
Recipient Organization
To fund additional "fast track" counselling sessions to those clients on CCSL waiting list experiencing Covid related mental health problems.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 1925 |
| Amount Awarded | 2000 |
| Award Date | 2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | S01010676 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | DZ |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Skye South - 04 |
| Grant Programme: Title | CalMac Community Fund |
| Last Modified | 2024-02-12T10:03:24Z |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 9 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2022-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2021-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | SC033321 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Counselling Care, Skye and Lochalsh (CCSL), provides professional counselling and psychotherapy services to adults, children and young people living in Skye and Lochalsh. Our services are delivered by highly qualified and experienced counsellors either face to face or via telephone or video calls. We also provide training placements for student counsellors. Our Board members all live locally and bring a wide range of appropriate skills and experience to the role, ranging from counselling and psychotherapy to accountancy, social work and teaching. We also have a former client of CCSL on our Board to ensure that the voice and "lived in " experience of clients is represented. Last year we provided counselling and psychotherapy sessions to 120 adults and 75 children and young people. The types of mental health problems that we help our clients with range from stress, anxiety and depression, to eating disorders, trauma, loss and bereavement and family breakdown. We offer a "person centered" counselling service which means that every client receives counselling tailored to meet their specific mental health and well being problems. The children and young peoples service is currently funded through a recently agreed call down contract with the Highland Council. Although 60% of our adult client referrals are made by GPs, CCL currently receives only £5k per annum in NHS funding, however. This means that our adult service has to be funded by grant funding, client donations and fundraising. The current annual operating costs for our adult service are estimated to be around £60k. Since the Covid pandemic we have seen a significant rise in the number of adult clients requesting counselling. Many of the problems reported by our clients either relate directly to the impact of the Covid pandemic on their mental health and well being e.g. the impact losing a friend or family member to Covid, the impact of social isolation during lockdown and anxiety relating to financial and employment insecurity and health issues. Those with pre -existing mental health problems such as anxiety and depression also report that their condition has worsened during the pandemic. We currently have 64 adults on our waiting list and the average waiting time is currently up to six months. We are seeking Calmac grant funding to enable us to offer additional "fast track" counselling sessions to those clients on our waiting list experiencing Covid related mental health problems. |