Mental Health Concern (MHC) provides a wide range of specialist nurse-led services,  supported accommodation, and meaningful day activities across Tyneside, for people with  mental health problems. We are a ‘not–for-profit' organisation commissioned by the NHS and Local Authorities.

The services are provided according to the following Mission Statements:

“Continually working towards ‘ordinary lives' for people affected by severe mental health problems”
(Clinical Mission Statement, 2000)

“As a responsive and enabling Organisation, Mental Health Concern will endeavour to provide distinctive and effective services”
(Business Mission Statement, 2000)

We aim to provide a high quality service that works towards ordinary lives for people with mental health problems. ‘Ordinary Lives' is taken to mean a life which is ordinarily or generally accepted by society at large as being highly valued and of high quality (Brown & Smith, 1991; Wolfensberger & Thomas, 1983).

Each service aims to address individual mental health needs and ‘ordinary needs’  by following  7 principles

• Independence
• Fulfillment
• Choice
• Citizenship
• Privacy
• Dignity
• Rights

MHC, as a nurse led organisation, demonstrates best practice initiatives in line with current local and national guidance. We encourage developmental risk-taking and support the principles of recovery and social inclusion.