STEAM cafes / wellbeing hubs and crisis sanctuary 'safe havens'

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   • The aim of this crisis alternative service is to establish a Daytime Wellbeing Hub and Evening Safe Haven model that sits at the heart of the community and operates a safe and friendly environment. The Safe Haven will work closely with 111, Police, Ambulance and A&E to support people, where the hub is a more appropriate venue. The objectives of this crisis alternative service is to:
   • Offer day-time support for a range of mental health problems and for episodes of mental distress, to be based in a static facility, providing advice and information.
   • Offer an evening support for people who are in crisis (self-defined) and an alternative to admission to statutory services.
   • Use a social navigation and enabling approach, to empower people to stay well in their community and at home, rather than employing a more traditional 'problem-solving' approach.
   • Offer sanctuary for people experiencing mental ill-health and mental distress. It will include a calm and safe space, providing practical and emotional support, which can be used as an alternative to admission if appropriate.
   • Use existing Crisis response triage telephone lines that will receive all referrals to the Safe Haven in the evening.
   • To work in partnership with the local Mental Health NHS provider (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust) to develop protocols and a standard operating procedure, with the guarantee that the Mental Health provider will provide clinical oversight of the hub model, offering advice, support, and formal triage and assessment.
   • Link to the existing support services; Suffolk Community Connector Network, Suffolk Night owls and the Crisis Response Service support telephone line to support people who present as being in crisis and help to de-escalate.
   • Create links to other day time services for people with complex emotional needs and provide space and venues in rural locations through a hub and spoke model (daytime only).
   • Create a seamless peer support model working alongside the local Mental Health NHS provider (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust) to provide employment and volunteering opportunities.

   The NHS Standard Contract Service Variation will run from 1st April 2026 through to 31st March 2027. This enables a full review of the crisis alternative services and population needs to be undertaken. This contract is being extended to align to both the Suffolk VCSE Alternative Crisis services expiration dates and the clustering with Norfolk and Waveney ICB.

   No extension has been planned for this service. NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

   The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice.

   The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider. The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time.

   Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.