\n Mental health advocate Lee Payton works with various groups across the town to create a collaborative approach to men\u2019s mental health.\n<\/p>\n
\n Since January, Lee has been collecting weekly attendance figures from several men\u2019s peer-to-peer support and wellbeing groups across Warrington.\n<\/p>\n
\n Whilst the original aim was to have a better understanding of how many men were accessing support within the community, the growing figures gave Lee the opportunity to demonstrate the collective impact of local organisations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last week, it was announced that as a collective, the groups who have participated in the approach have reached a total of 9,001 attendances since the beginning of the year.\n<\/p>\n
\n This includes 948 first-time visits to groups across the town.\n<\/p>\n
\n The ‘No Wrong Door’ initiative has been embraced by a number of men’s mental health groups across Warrington. (Image: Lee Payton)\n<\/p>\n
\n These figures represent attendances rather than individual people, as some men attend regularly or access more than one group.\n<\/p>\n
\n The ‘No Wrong Door’ initiative centres around the idea that groups should work together to improve mental health support within Warrington.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lee said: \u201cIt should not matter which door somebody approaches first. What matters is that they are treated with dignity, listened to and helped towards appropriate support.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have some fantastic organisations across Warrington, all offering different forms of support for men\u2019s mental health.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut no single organisation can provide everything somebody might need, and we shouldn\u2019t expect them to.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat we can do is make sure we understand what each other offers, communicate more effectively and help men find the support that\u2019s right for them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Lee is clear that the best way to ensure better mental health support for men across Warrington is to ensure that groups are always working in collaboration rather than competition.\n<\/p>\n
\n Warrington has a number of organisations which offer men the opportunity to connect, talk and improve their mental health and wellbeing, each taking a completely different approach to how they do so.\n<\/p>\n
\n Looking forward, Lee invites all Warrington-based men\u2019s mental health peer groups to work with him on the ‘No Wrong Door’ initiative.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is keen to stress that organisations are not expected to change how they operate, give up their independence, or formally merge with other groups.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI\u2019m not asking organisations to change who they are or stop doing the fantastic work they\u2019re already doing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m asking them to recognise that we can achieve more by working together.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIndividually, the groups are great, but together we could be unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mental health advocate Lee Payton works with various groups across the town to create a collaborative approach to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-674342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}