The service had been operating temporarily in the Senhouse Centre before it moved into the former bank premises.<\/p>\n
Annette Murray-Hamilton is among the 150 people who received support at the hub in its former location.<\/p>\n
She described how her mental health was affected when she became the victim of theft and how the service had helped.<\/p>\n
“I’m stronger than I was,” said the Cleator Moor resident.<\/p>\n
“Initially, I wouldn’t have said anything, but now there’s a buzz, I want to move on.”<\/p>\n
Some of the staff at the hub have been through struggles of their own and are now working as “peer supporters”.<\/p>\n
Clinical lead Liam Edmondson said: “I’ve experienced my own mental health difficulties, and I think that really helps break down barriers.<\/p>\n
“Once you share what you’ve been through, people naturally open up. <\/p>\n
“The more you give, the more you get back,” he said. “It’s yielding good results.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service had been operating temporarily in the Senhouse Centre before it moved into the former bank premises.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-555479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}