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CDARS Sunshine Recovery Cafe

The Sunshine Recovery Café is open to adult residents of South West London (18+) who perceive at risk of moving into mental health crisis.

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What is this service?

The Sunshine Recovery Café offers a constructive and non-clinical alternative to A&E or admission to hospital.

The Café, which is open 365 days a year, aims to support people to reduce their immediate crisis and anxiety, and to prepare a safety plan, drawing on resilience and coping mechanisms.

The café offers a welcoming, safe, friendly and non-stigmatising environment. Our members of staff support customers to help them discuss the nature of their crisis, identify the triggers to it, and to help them identify strengths and coping skills they might use to reduce their distress in order to successfully manage their own situations in the future

We offer a variety of emotional support, resilience building, recreation and leisure activities, peer-led support, signposting to partner agencies, risk assessment, and opportunities including complementary therapies, healthy eating sessions, Yoga, separate women and men's peer support groups, art therapy, Goals for the Week group and many others.

How to access the café?

Our customers can self-refer to the Sunshine Recovery Café. South West London and St Georges’ NHS Mental Health Trust and local agencies may also signpost customers to the café.

Exclusion:

  • Non-South West London residents. This will not mean a refusal of entry, but will mean offering of short term support and signposting back to appropriate local Services

  • Adults with dementia

  • Children or adolescents

  • People exhibiting violent or aggressive behaviour

  • People under the influence of drugs/ alcohol

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Location

Engage Merton

Location

296a Kingston Road
Wimbledon Chase

London

SW20 8LX

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Date and time

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