Befriending Management Platform
Welcome to the Simply Connect Befriending Platform.
Befriending is defined as offering supportive, reliable relationships through volunteer befrienders to people who would otherwise be socially isolated.
Befriending means to ‘make a friend’ and Simply Connect could not have made it easier!
But don’t just take our word for it….
Emily Daniel – Together Co, Operations Lead, shares her thoughts on using the platform:
‘We’ve worked together to develop a great matching platform helping us ensure we match people to volunteer befrienders that are most suitable for their particular needs. The platform holds all the information we need for clients, volunteers and the befriending match all in one place, and we can also easily follow the volunteer’s journey through the recruitment stages and into their active volunteering. The reporting function also allows us to quickly and easily produce reports on active befriending matches, as well as identify how many new clients and volunteers we have engaged during a particular timeframe.’
This is where Simply Connect comes in…
It is evident that there is a growing proportion of our population, just over **45% of adults identify as being lonely across the UK. We know that loneliness can be worse for your health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day and that it has a huge impact of our general physical and mental health.
The most popular social prescribing service referred into across all Simply Connect’s social prescribing projects nationally is Befriending and that’s why we’ve worked with community partners to develop a new system that can help you setup and manage a befriending service.
What are the benefits to using the Simply Connect Befriending System?
Benefits for your organisation
- Provides everything you need to setup and manage your befriending service.
- Encourage referrals from across health and social care, through our Simply Connect network, feeds directly into your system
- Assess clients, their needs, preferences, even interests and hobbies to help you match clients to a volunteer that will be a perfect match
- Easy monitoring of clients health and wellbeing
- Provides feedback loop, if more serious issues/concerns picked up by volunteers during a call
- Build in safeguarding and quality assurance processes for you, your clients and your volunteers
Benefits for health and social care professionals
- Refer clients who are lonely, isolated into quality assured befriending services
- Get feedback on the outcome of the referral
Benefits for people needing support
- Develop ongoing lasting relationships and friendships
- Find personalised support by being matched with a befriender that suits you
- Have peace of mind all volunteers have been DBS checked, trained and verified before being matched with you
If you are a healthcare professional wanting to connect with our befriending partners contact hello@simplyconnectsolutions.co.uk
If you are an organisation wanting to run a befriending service, visit www.simplyconnectsolutions.co.uk and book in a call with us, so we can talk through your needs.
**Source https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/the-facts-on-loneliness/
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