Helping Hands – helping communities recover from Covid-19

A growing number of people in the community are facing challenges around isolation, financial constraints, worsening physical and mental wellbeing, all of which are contributing to a deterioration in people’s mental health. Local community leaders find themselves supporting more people with increasingly complex mental health problems. The Helping Hands project will work with voluntary and community groups across Halifax to provide mental health support to communities who have been impacted by COVID-19. There will be a particular focus on working with Afro Caribbean, South Asian, and White working class communities, where access and engagement with mental health services is low, and there’s more stigma around mental health issues.