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Directory of Jewish Mental Health Services in Greater London


Action Against Depression was inaugurated on 26th January 1999 by The Secretary of State for Health, to serve sufferers from depression, their families, friends and the caring professions.


JAMI President Martin Aaron is a member of this representative committee which is looking at all aspects of mental health including the mental health bill and mental incapacity bill.


New mental health and benefits guide
It covers: how the incapacity points system works; completing the incapacity for work questionnaire; attending a medical examination; appealing against a decision that you are capable of work.


To read more and to search the archives visit News and Policy Watch.

England
Consultation on promoting the status of Social Work, Guidance on Evaluating the Extent of Rough Sleeping, Consultation on the Transfer of Residential Allowance, and more

Scotland
Consultation on homelessness, a report on the consultation responses to tackling anti-social behaviour, and more

Wales
Consultation on providing effective advocacy services for children making a complaint, residential allowance guidance for Wales, and more

Northern Ireland
Working paper on delivering a strategy for young people in Northern Ireland, the UK action plan on social inclusion, and more


Drugs Help line


For those experiencing mental/emotional stress and their carers/families within the Orthodox Jewish community. We offer a drop-in with separate sessions for men and women, a home befriending service, support for people in their own homes, hospital visiting and advocacy.


Registered charity which aims to help, in a practical way, people who suffer from phobias, obsessional compulsive disorder, those with general anxiety, panic attacks, anorexia and bulimia, and those who wish to come off tranquillisers, together with help for their carers. Also help, advice and support for the carers of those with borderline personality disorder.


Every week Jewish Care helps thousands of people in the Jewish Community - young and old alike deal with problems they cannot solve on their own.  If you need help of support one of the areas listed below - call Jewish Care direct on 020 8922.  They can help with:

Older People

People suffering from Alzheimers Disease or other forms of dementia

Visual impairment

Physical disability

Mental Health Problems

Younger people

Holocaust survivors

Carers and Families


The Manic Depression Fellowship works to enable people affected by manic depression to take control of their lives.


Major web site on mental health.  Includes list of mental health Internet resources. Vast listing includes an analysis by continent 


MACA works to improve quality of life for people with mental health needs and their carers, using their experience and opinions to provide effective services, promote good practice and influence policy on mental health. The Association delivers a wide range of community and hospital-based services.


National Association for Mental Health
Click here to go to their list of world wide links


National Jewish Crisis Help line


Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, to recover  a better quality of life

Tel: 0845 456 0455 or email info@rethink.org

National advice line
Tel: 020 8974 6814 (open 10am to 3pm, Monday to Friday) or e-mail advice@rethink.org


This is the first specialised unit for the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the UK.  We offer online, telephone and in-person help.  All of our information is FREE.  We are also affiliated with the charity First Steps to Freedom (see above)


Help line


One of the UK's leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness
Tel:  London 020 7375 1002
Tel:  Bristol 0117 950 2140
Tel:  Macclesfield 01625 429 050
Sane line
12 midday - 2am every day of the year Tel: 0845 767 8000
Shelter line
For homeless.  24hour free phone
0808 800 4444


Australian website support for the mentally ill in the Jewish community and their families. 


 

Founded in 1871 membership is open to all British Jews who accept as their guiding principle loyalty to their faith and their country.


Elected body of the Jewish community in Britain presents a summary of its role and activities, plus news, issues and a festival calendar.


UK affiliate of Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium  (Hebrew College, USA) 


Federation of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland



provides caring sheltered housing to improve the quality of life and help achieve independent living for visually & physically disabled people. 


Every week Jewish Care helps thousands of people in the Jewish Community - young and old alike deal with problems they cannot solve on their own.  If you need help of support one of the areas listed below - call Jewish Care direct on 020 8920 2000.  They can help with:

Older People
People suffering from Alzheimers Disease or other forms of dementia
Visual impairment
Physical disability
Mental Health Problems
Younger people
Holocaust survivors
Carers and Families

For more information call Jewish Care direct on 020 8922 2000

 


The national Jewish weekly in the United Kingdom


ORTnet's Jewish Community is comprised of prominent Jewish organisations and publications mainly based in Britain. Check out these sites for regular updates.


A brilliant new magazine.  Jewish Renaissance is a cultural magazine with event listings and features covering books, art, music, film, theatre, ideas and society.  Ask for a complimentary copy



To unite Jewish women of every shade of opinion who are resident in the United Kingdom to intensify in each Jewish woman her Jewish consciousness and her sense of responsibility to the Jewish community and to the community generally


A grouping of synagogues for the advancement of Liberal Judaism 



Located in London, it is the largest nursing and residential Home for the elderly in the UK. 400 elderly members of the Jewish community


The largest Jewish child and family services charity in Europe, working with over 6,000 children, young people, adults, people with learning difficulties and their families every year. 


"Organisation for Rehabilitation and Training" today is a private, non-sectarian, non-political, non-profit making organisation, which meets the educational, and manpower training needs of contemporary societies in every port of the world.


Grouping of synagogues who aim to promote a living Judaism.  Reform Synagogues of Great Britain Sternberg Centre for Judaism 


Probably the largest website meeting the needs of the Jewish Community covering a very wide range of topics from Adult Education to Travel to Zionist Organisations

Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations
Bodies affiliated to the Adath Yisroel Burial Society and others desirous of co-operating in the work of protecting orthodoxy,

The United Synagogue is the foremost Anglo-Jewish Orthodox Synagogue Community comprising 65 Synagogues whose religious authority is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
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