Ponthafren offers a number if services to promote positive mental health.

The Ponthafren Out of Hours Helpline offers emotional support and information/literature on Mental Health and related matters.

The Helpline is available:

Monday to Friday, 5pm - 9pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12pm - 5pm

Ponthafren Support Line can help YOU!.

Call the Ponthafren Out of Hours Helpline on 07508 709 338.

Self-referral Ponthafren Referral Form | Ponthafren

The Service helps people in Powys (aged 18+) and their families or carers, to access community-level services and activities that will help them maintain independent lives and which help prevent their circumstances deteriorating to a point where they might need higher level health or social care services.

The service can also help support people when they return to home from hospital by helping other Third Sector services, such as Red Cross, identify additional local services that may be needed.

You can make a referral to the service through any of the following:​​​​​

• Calling our Duty Officer, Community Connector Service on 01597 828649 (10am - 4pm Monday to Friday)
• Email community.connectors@pavo.org.uk (9am - 5pm Monday to Friday)

To find out more about the Community Connector service and how they can help, please click the image.

POWYS BEFRIENDING SERVICE

Powys Befriending Service helps improve the independence of people over 50 by helping maintain social networks and remain in their own homes for as long as they are able.

Befriending volunteers are trained and police checked before visiting people in their own homes or in the community.

The services we offer are:

• Face to face befriending in your own home or in a community setting
• Telephone Befriending
• Letter / email correspondence
• Digital online befriending groups
• Befriending groups

Do you know someone who could benefit from this service?

Call 01597 822 191 for an informal chat or email pbs@pavo.org.uk

Local Primary Mental Health Support Services are available in Powys for people of all ages. These services are aimed at people who are experiencing mild to moderate, or stable, severe and enduring mental health problems.  LPMHSS is an age blind service with the exception of those under the age of 18 who will be signposted to their local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

Opening Hours

LPMHSS have core operating hours of 9:00am until 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.  To access these services, you will need a referral from a health professional such as your GP or a Mental Health Practitioner.

What to expect

The LPMHSS provide goal focused mental health assessments and also treatment by way of short-term psychological interventions which can be delivered individually or in group settings.

North Powys LPMHSS
Fan Gorau
Newtown Hospital
Llanfair Road
Newtown
SY16 2DW
Telephone: 07779 548 447

People with a learning disability are at high risk of missing out on the healthcare they need. To use healthcare services, and to look after your health, you may need extra support from your GP surgery.