Introduction to Tulip Mental Health Group

History

Tulip Mental Health Group was founded in 1988 by a Consortium of local voluntary and statutory groups in the London Borough of Haringey. Tulip is a Registered Charity with its Head Office in Haringey and services in Enfield, Newham and Havering.

From our innovative beginnings, supporting people moving from long-stay psychiatric hospitals into our community-based registered residential homes, we went on to introduce the concept of Assertive Outreach into the UK from America, adapting the American Programme of Assertive Community Treatment for a UK setting. This model of intervention was subsequently taken up by the Department of Health and rolled out across the UK. Tulip was recognised as a model of best practice for our work with Black and Ethnic Minority groups in the 1999 Department of Health National Service Framework for Mental Health. From these early beginnings, we have gone on to develop specialisms in day services and floating support and have an enviable reputation for our ability to transform and modernise services and manage complex change processes.

Tulip has a breadth of service development and delivery experience that is extremely unusual in an organisation of our size. Since becoming established in 1988, we have developed and run a wide range of services including:

• Step-down supported housing, working as managing agents with Registered Social Landlords

• Dementia Outreach Service

• Personality Disorder Link Worker Service

• Support Time Recovery Workers seconded into a statutory Crisis and Home Treatment Team

• Day Services

• Counselling

• Consultancy and Training Services

• Employment Placement Schemes

• Community Development Worker

• Floating Support Services

Working closely with our Commissioners, service users, community partners and our excellent and committed workforce, we provide community-based mental health services to some 500 people with mental health needs every year.

Whether we are providing debt advice in someone's home, IT skills development in a day centre or support to use community services, our aim is to offer hope and support recovery and provide individualised services to enable people to gain and maintain independence and be a valued and valuable member of society.