Eileen said: \u201cI was in a dark place and reached out to the Community Mental Health Team, who took me to various places in the community, including The Salvation Army. I stopped here for a little drink and chat, and when I was able to leave the house by myself, I still came here and started speaking to people who were so kind and supportive. They told me they had volunteer roles here, which was a good way to get into the community and be around people. I was invited in for an interview and started volunteering in the charity shop. It\u2019s been fantastic for my confidence \u2013 I made friends and started volunteering at jumble sales at the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eileen then met Precious Collins, an Employment Development Coordinator who helped Eileen build up her CV, undertook a number of courses online, and when she moved home, she applied for a job with Precious\u2019 support. After a successful interview, she got a job as a cleaner in a warehouse and has now branched out on her own, cleaning boats in the marina and the homes of people where she works.<\/p>\n
Eileen said: \u201cEven now, if I am having a bad day, this is where I end up. The people here are so supportive and Precious has been fantastic. Even though I\u2019m now in full-time employment, she keeps in touch with me to make sure things are going well and to see if I need any extra support. She wrote me a reference for my new job, and I feel great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen said: \u201cI was in a dark place and reached out to the Community Mental Health Team, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-34020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}