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Organisation aims / mission / values
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Community Activities Project Ealing (CAPE) was founded 21 years ago, to meet the needs of individuals living with mental health needs in the local community. Our founding service was a safe place in the form of a Café where people could meet and take up peer support. This service continues to this day. However, over the years we have recognised that we are working with a wide range of needs that have an impact on an individual’s mental health and wellbeing, so we have developed and continue to develop a suite of services, voluntary and training positions to respond to a wide range of needs. We focus on the individual not just the diagnosis, which encourages us to recognise that each person is different and has complex needs and so our response needs to be multi-layered.
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We have gained extensive knowledge of working with the people of Ealing who have lived experience of psychosis, complex depression, anxiety and trauma, personality disorder and other mental health conditions, that can be compounded by physical, and learning disabilities. We recognise that almost all our clients have experiences of trauma in their personal lives.
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Our current services are a mix of those provided at CAPE Recovery Point in Acton, CAPE Central -Central Ealing, the Women’s Wellness Zone in Southall and outreach services to individuals across the borough who are in crisis or otherwise too compromised to come into our building-based services.
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We understand the ongoing legacy of traumatic experiences means that we are working with people whose lives have been profoundly impacted, who want to find ways of living alongside their long-term mental health conditions and rebuild a sustainable, meaningful life of their choosing. We work collaboratively with people to help them realise and build their strengths, find networks and communities that can support their future.
CAPE People and Services
How we deliver these aims
We provide services in response to the changing needs of our service users, committed to ensuring our service users are involved in development.
For example, based on the articulated needs of our service users, CAPE 1:1 psychotherapy pilot project was developed in 2017 to fulfil the gap they were facing in accessing psychotherapy services that were willing or able to provide a service. Service users fell through the gap, not complex enough to qualify for therapy from the Recovery Teams or hospital, too complex to access providers such as IAPT.
CAPE have proved there is a need for service user-informed talking therapy for complex mental health needs (including multiple diagnoses and/or co-morbidity with addiction), tailored to individual need, available long-term and delivered via both group and 1:1 support. Service users benefit from having therapy provided CAPE that offers them a comprehensive range of other support services, responding to changing needs.
Who benefits from our work
CAPE support the residents of Ealing who have lived experience of psychosis, complex depression, anxiety and trauma, personality disorder and other mental health conditions, that can be compounded by physical, and learning disabilities. We recognise that almost all our clients have experiences of trauma in their personal lives. The ongoing legacy of such traumatic experiences means that we are working with people whose lives have been profoundly impacted, who want to find ways of living alongside their long-term mental health conditions and rebuild a sustainable, meaningful life of their choosing. We work collaboratively with people to help them realise and build their strengths, find networks and communities that can support their future.
