Robert Fenwick Lauren Beazer

Empowering recovery: Navigating severe and multiple disadvantage through non-conditional support

A Talk by Robert Fenwick and Lauren Beazer

About this Talk

In this session we will hear from the award-winning Exeter Navigator team; a multi-disciplinary team comprising housing, mental health and substance mis-use specialisms. They operate to MEAM principals and an understanding of the importance of a single, trusting theraputic relationship as a key fundamental to recovery from trauma.

They will discuss:

  • The team's structure, work and person-centred philosophy
  • The impact of pre-treatment, relational practice, and non-conditional, long term support aligned with the individual`s own recovery journey via its ebbs and flows.
  • The challenges of demonstrating value to funders without easy to translate targets


About The Speakers

Robert Fenwick

Robert Fenwick

Navigator Project Lead, Exeter City Council


Lauren Beazer

Lauren Beazer

Pre-treatment Navigator - Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Social Worker), Exeter Colab - The Navigator Project