Connect Somerset – Commissioning Early Help and Prevention Services within the Community

The service will support residents and their families to be resilient and connected to their community to enable people to improve their health and wellbeing

The main aims of the service are to: • Enable people to fulfil their potential by enabling the resolution of underlying issues and cause. • Support to enable people to become independent and step down from services. • Provide access to the right support at the right time, reducing reliance on crisis and emergency services and enabling people to move towards independence and wellbeing. • Support people to achieve their goals (the things that matter most to the individuals) through an honest relationship that changes over time as aspirations grow, develop and are achieved.

The service empowers all people with sensory loss (including dual sensory loss) to take control of their health and wellbeing by giving people time to focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach to an individual’s health and wellbeing. This includes people with learning disabilities and/or autism and mental ill health.

The service is to provide help and support to individuals that are deaf, or hard of hearing, by providing interpreters to provide communication support services to aid eligible service users in social care related situations that require them.