BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team

A community mental health team supporting people with severe mental health problems, primarily psychosis, who have difficulty engaging with mainstream services.

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

Welcome to the IOT twitter page. We use a trauma informed, assertive and team working approach to support people who find it difficult to engage in mainstream mental health services. Mainly with psychosis and/or substance use. #psychosis #mentalhealthservices #assertiveoutreach

[Andy Bell @Andy__Bell__]

A devastating picture of poverty in the UK from @jrf_uk showing both the extent and depth of the problem for so many people. The toll on people’s mental health is huge: poverty is toxic to mental health and tackling it will dramatically improve wellbeing across the country

[Natalie finch @Natfinchleeds]

I have been fortunate enough to visit a service like this in Toronto. A warm, safe and respectful place where judgment and stigma is left at the door to provide a compassionate, evidence based health service. We must do better !

[Dr Kirsten Atherton @katho333]

Great article by @justin_garson in @PsychToday normalising voice hearing. We are currently developing a measure to capture peoples’s experiences of hallucinations in order to understand them rather than label or diagnose, please help share if you can: https://t.co/1ckNsxYKwr

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

Bradford IOT is recruiting . We welcome interest if you have a passion to support some of the most disadvantaged people in our community. #AssertiveOutreach
https://t.co/VssmUAAMrM

[Project 6 @Project6_]

Have you heard about the HAARP team in #Keighley?

They do fantastic work with adults at risk of homelessness to remove barriers that prevent access to safe and stable accommodation

Concerned about someone? get in touch and let the guys at HAARP help [email protected]

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

https://t.co/xRDTAJj1aI
Shelter
Estimates 345 people were homeless in Bradford on any given night in 2022 including 145 children.
Equivalent to 1 in every 1,584 people in the area.
Around 327 homeless people in Bradford were in temporary accommodation, 18 were rough sleeping.

[Liam Stowell @stowell_liam]

A new article from me about #mentalhealth and the ever increasing medicalisation of all aspects of society. Credit to @JDaviesPhD and @ClinpsychLucy for their work over the years and given me faith to do an article about this. Thank you @NursingTimes

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

Implement the Care Act to enable people to live
'gloriously ordinary lives .'

https://t.co/cGlUOelpWl

[MCAteamBradford @MCAteamBradford]

Friday quote! Apologies for tiny writing.

[Waleeya @waleeyak]

#addictionsupport meeting-
The Vault Recovery Cafe,
Trafalgar Street, BRADFORD. BD1 3ED
https://t.co/kPW5sl51JV
@cslhginfo
@Bridge_Proj
#Lero

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

'those of us who are supporting people in distress, such as mental health workers, have a key role in social transformation. Social action is the medicine that relieves people’s personal and collective distress.' | Sanah Ahsan https://t.co/YBaHTTQI8M

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

@LouiseSpragg2 Still one of the foundational documents that drive our practice . Very much the onus is on us - reminding us no one is out of reach.
The Sainsbury Centre; Keys To Engagement . 1988
https://t.co/82T5IS0n2h

[Nuwan Dissanayaka @nuwandiss]

Don’t want to sound like a broken record but guess what?

Outreach Teams are important (and not just for risk management) 🤷🏽‍♂️

[BDCFT CMHT @BDCFT_CMHT]

Food poverty impacts physical and mental health. If you need help with food there are places that can help: Bradford Foodbanks – Find your local foodbank in Bradford District https://t.co/oveNE6APnP

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

We are recruiting ! Contact us or spread the word. We'd love to hear from experienced or even newly qualified care coordinators with a commitment to our values. #nhsjobs #assertiveoutreach #teamwork
https://t.co/nQeUxlpC8H

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

We love our @bradfordmdc #socialwork colleagues- indispensable members of our MDT reminding us day in day out that almost all solutions in the world of #mentalhealth work flow from deep careful attention to peoples social circumstances. #WorldSocialWorkDay2022

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

As part of our in house training today we are refreshing and learning more about Opiate Substitute Treatments. Noting the vital importance of access to #naloxone . Too many drug related deaths are preventable.

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

The team were pleased to have been nominated for a @BDCFT You're a Star Award 2022 for Team of the Year, nice to be recognised for the positive work we do, something we probably don't do often enough ourselves. #assertiveoutreach #communitymentalheath #youreastarawards2022

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

@Natfinchleeds Definitely! We resolved to invite more of our VCS partners to meet the team to share our sense of the challenge involved in closing gaps. Believe v strongly too in the flexible provision of more physical space for our people 'just to be'. Needs factoring into estate planning.

[BDCFT Integrated Outreach Team @BDCFTIOT]

Its clear we need to connect more than what we do to available and useful community based resources. Signposting is useful but gaps exist between our people and what's there in the mainstream. How can we bridge these gaps ? #supportingrecovery