Advantage Mentoring
Advantage is a unique partnership between two community assets and anchor institutions – the charitable arms of Premier League and English Football League clubs; known as Club Community Organisations (CCO), and local NHS.
Advantage’s programmes are proven to tackle and reduce Health Inequalities via social prescribing by providing weekly mental health and emotional wellbeing mentoring support. They provide key interventions and assistance for people to proactively manage their mental wellbeing, re-establish aspirations and a sense of connection. They have proven that Advantage successfully overcomes barriers people face to accessing traditional forms of mental health support, such as minority ethnicity, stigma, age, and gender.
The Advantage Talking Tactics Programme has been designed by senior NHS strategists and CCO staff to increase access to NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and help tackle and reduce Health Inequalities by providing weekly mental health and emotional wellbeing mentoring support for young people aged 11-21.