Open Mental Health is an alliance of local voluntary organisations, the NHS and social care, Somerset County Council, and individuals with lived experience of mental health. They are working together to improve the way people in Somerset receive support with their mental health by providing access to a number of specialist services including NHS support, housing advice, debt and employment advice, volunteering opportunities, community activities, peer support and local exercise groups.

They want to ensure that people in Somerset get the right support when they need it most.

Their shared ambition is to ensure that people living with mental health problems get the right support at the right time. Working together, they support people to live a full life, by enabling access to specialist mental health services, housing support, debt and employment advice, volunteering opportunities, peer support, community activities and physical exercise, to help support and improve their well-being and quality of life.

They provide a number of support services for adults across Somerset including:

• Holistic well-being workers
• 1 to 1 and group support
• Peer supporters/peer support workers
• Psychologists and mental health nurses
• Occupational therapists
• Older and young people specialists
• Eating disorder specialists
• Developmental trauma specialists
• Money, benefits and housing support

By working together in partnership, Open Mental Health want to ensure that there is ‘no wrong door’ for anyone who needs help.