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Categories: Mental Health

Name:

The Mental Health After Care Association

Fees:

per individual:
per couple:
sliding scale:

Address:

General enquiries
National office:
Maca
1st floor
Lincoln House
296–302 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7JH
Fax 020 7061 3401

Contact details?

Telephone:	020 7061 3400
Mobile:
Email:
Website:	http://www.together-uk.org/

Qualifications / Certification:

Registration
Maca (The Mental After Care Association) is a charity registered in England, registration no 211091.

Years in Practice / Established:

Founded in 1879, Maca is the country’s oldest community mental-health charity, with a long and fascinating history…
We were started by Rev Henry Hawkins, the chaplain of a large Victorian asylum, who wanted to find ways to support people leaving the institution once they returned to the community. (Although our origins were Christian, we have always welcomed people of all faiths.)

Clients:

couples:
individuals:
children:
adolescents:
families:
groups:

Affiliation (church or other organisation):

President
The Rt Hon The Earl Cairns CBE

Vice-Presidents
Most Rev the Rt Hon Dr George Carey, The Archbishop of Canterbury
Most Rev and Rt Hon Dr David Hope, The Archbishop of York
Rt Rev Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, The Archbishop of Westminster
Rev Anthony Burnham BA, The Free Churches Moderator
Rt Hon Richard Chartres, The Bishop of London
Sir Henry Yellowlees

Services offered:

Maca supports 2500 people through 100 different mental-health services across the country. We provide our mental-health services by working in partnership with many other organisations, including housing associations, health trusts, local authorities, criminal-justice agencies and private- and other voluntary-sector bodies.

Our most important partners are the people who use our services. We believe in working with people rather than doing things for or to them. And inspired and informed by our unique values, we run a full range of different types of mental-health service, including:

advocacy services – supporting people with mental-health problems to make their views heard
assertive-outreach services – reaching out to those who find it hard to use traditional mental-health services
community-support services – supporting people with mental-health problems in their own homes
residential services – including care-homes giving 24-hour support, high-support residential services, and independent flats with visiting support
day-support services – offering a non-threatening environment where people with mental-health problems can make new friends and learn new skills
employment and work-training schemes – getting people back to work through skills-training or personal-development services
forensic services – for people with mental-health problems who have been in contact with the criminal-justice system
services for carers – supporting those who care for people with mental-health problems.

Areas of particular interest and expertise?

As well as the extensive services offered directly by MACA, there are excellent website links to other related services.

Residential:

Yes

Non-residential:

Yes