Imagine Your Goals
ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
Imagine Your Goals (IYG) is Everton in the Community's longest-running mental health programme, launched in 2007 with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. It uses football as a therapeutic tool to support people's physical, mental, emotional and social health and wellbeing. Football coaching is combined with football-themed education workshops to build emotional resilience and self-confidence, and a built-in peer support network helps participants tackle loneliness and social isolation during recovery. The programme led to Merseyside's first mental health football league, and Everton in the Community organises the National Mental Health Football Championships each October around World Mental Health Day.
WHO THE PROGRAMME SUPPORTS
General community
ACCESSIBILITY
NONE
SAFEGUARDING
Safeguarding policy in place.
PARTICIPANT VOICE
“The support that I've been given, I can't put a value on it. It's really saved me.”
EVIDENCE & LEARNING
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