Our unique approach improves people’s wellbeing
Project Lily impacts the Jewish and wider Community by providing wellbeing and mental health education and training as well as carrying out community-wide initiatives such as “The Awesome August Hug”.
We work across the whole community as well as with a range of Jewish community partner organisations.
We give people the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to the nascent mental health issues that they they encounter.
Our approach is non-judgemental and confidential.
Clinical Support
Our organisational partners’ staff encounter tens of thousands of people every month through their work. That’s why we provide our partners with access to additional clinical support.
Our Clinical Team works with them to provide low intensity interventions based on the early identification of mental health issues before they escalate. Every individual is related to in a warm way, avoiding the often cold or impersonal approach of some providers.
Where a higher intensity intervention is needed, the Clinical Team will assess individuals and either refer them to our extensive network of counsellors, therapists and psychologists or signpost them to pre-existing therapeutic organisations. Recognising the importance of rapid intervention, we initiate such assessments within 24 hours.
We follow up on the progress of every single client to ensure a successful outcome.
FREE, CPD Accredited Training
Our Wellbeing and Mental Health Training is provided FREE to the wider community (much of it CPD accredited), Thousands of people have benefited from this training which has provided the knowledge and skills needed to make rapid, early interventions for themselves and others who are encountering mental health difficulties. Our research shows that for each person trained, within 12 weeks of the training, three people benefit from a positive mental health intervention.
A Jewish Community Framework
Project Lily is rooted in the Jewish Community which provides individuals with a non-judgemental service featuring culturally sensitive guidance, direction and support.
“The importance of correctly dealing with emotional health issues is increasingly being recognised both within and outside of the workplace. For UK businesses, absenteeism due to emotional health challenges is a multi-billion pound issue.”
Ian Myers
Director, Project Lily
“There is plentiful evidence that people who identify strongly with a particular set of cultural experiences often do choose to consult therapists who share these experiences… and this is associated with better outcomes.”
Prof. John McLeod
Professor Emeritus of Counselling, University of Dundee (2000, An Introduction to Counselling. OU Press)
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Trustees: Rabbi Danny Kirsch, Dr Lisa Kagan & Mr Eli Seliger
Honorary Patron: Lady Elaine Sacks
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