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What is WAVET?
WAVET stands for Work, Advice, Volunteering, Education and Training.
It is a network of organisations aiming to provide information, development and training opportunities
for people who access mental health services and service providers.
What we hope to achieve
- Strategic input and development;
- Monitoring shifts and changes;
- Planning new service developments to create cohesion between services and to reduce duplication where it exists;
- The provision of training opportunities for staff, people who access mental health services and volunteers, which is linked to the training provided by other agencies.
Features and benefits
- Six meetings per year - opportunity for networking, update on local initiatives, speakers;
- Annual AGM;
- Access to training opportunities;
- Information circulation;
- Opportunities for collective and partnership working;
- Opportunities to raise and discuss issues of common concern;
- Link to wider local strategic partnerships;
- Work with stakeholders to promote services locally.
Meeting dates in 2008
- Thurs 18th September (AGM)
- Monday 3rd November
- Monday 15th December
- Monday 19th January
- Monday 2nd March
- Monday 13th April
- Monday 1st June
All meetings will be held at Cambridge Resource Centre, Norfolk St, 10 - 11.30am, except AGM and where otherwise stated.
AGM will be held at St Andrews Hall, Chesterton, 2pm - 4pm.
Application Process
To find out more information about WAVET, please contact Sarah Bye, current chair. You can attend one of the WAVET
meetings to find out whether the group would be beneficial to you. If you decide to go ahead with your
application then complete the application form and forward it to Sarah Bye at Richmond Fellowship along
with your membership payment. You will then be added to the distribution list and forwarded information
on future meetings.
Current WAVET member organisations
- Addaction
- Cambridge Resource Centre
- Cambridge Regional College
- Cambridge Housing Society
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- Cambridgeshire PCT
- CAMEO
- Citizen's Advice Bureau
- Cogwheel Trust
- Community Mental Health Teams
- Disability Cambridgeshire
- Get Group
- Jobcentre Plus
- Lifecraft
- Living Sport
- Missing Links (ECHG)
- Red2Green
- Richmond Fellowship
- Romsey Mill
- Speaking Up
- 209 Radio