Support built on lived experience.
Sidekick Initiative delivers lived-experience mentoring, recovery support, workshops and talks for individuals, schools, prisons, probation services and organisations across Portsmouth and Hampshire.
Recovery Mentoring
One-to-one and group mentoring for people navigating addiction, mental health struggles and rebuilding after crisis. Practical, honest, delivered by people who have been there.
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Workshops, resilience talks and youth support built on the Aim, Intention, Method framework. Real conversations, in language young people recognise.
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Recovery workshops, mentoring and structured support inside prisons and across probation services. Real experience meeting real need.
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Mental health talks, mindset sessions and resilience workshops for organisations, emergency services and community groups.
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Partner delivery for schools, workplaces, services and communities. Lived-experience with structure.
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A guided Sidekick Initiative pathway from someone's first walk to their first summit. Movement as a way back in.
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