Juno PMHS Edinburgh

Our Zoom drop-in group is on as usual tonight, for any mums and mums-to-be who are needing a chat.
Drop us an email and we’ll send you the link 💜

If you are a mum or mum-to-be experiencing feelings of anxiety or simply not feeling yourself, please do get in contact.

Our volunteers are all mums with lived experience and offer a safe space in which to talk about whatever is on your mind. They will always listen with empathy, validation and zero judgement.

Our weekly drop-in groups are on as normal - just send us an email if you’d like to join.
[email protected]
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Could you be our new volunteer for our in person group in Midlothian? 💜

Are you interested in volunteering opportunities? Can you spare two hours a month? Do you want to help your local community by supporting a worthwhile cause?

💜We need your help to enable our fantastic peer support group to keep running 💜

Could you (or someone you know) become a peer supporter and help mothers struggling with mental health? All training will be provided.

Juno Midlothian currently provide perinatal peer support every week on Tuesday mornings in the Link at Loanhead, during term time. The group is supported by the Growing Families charity.

Perinatal mental Illness affects 10-20% of pregnant women and mums with babies under 1.

We need some willing volunteers to join our fabulous friendly peer supporters to facilitate the group. This involves chatting with, supporting and signposting mums who are struggling with emotional difficulties during pregnancy or following the birth of their baby. There is no expectation to facilitate every week.

The venue provide an appropriate room, baby toys and tea/coffee. All that is required is some relevant personal experience (eg pre or post natal depression/anxiety/birth trauma).

Please PM us if you think you can help or want to find out more.
Many thanks xx
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💜 Happy Mother's Day 💜

🫶 Sending lots of love and solidarity to all the mum's out there - we see you and you're doing a brilliant job 🫶

We’ve got a new training coming up for volunteer peer support facilitators 🙌

Are you a mum who has experienced perinatal mental health struggles in the past and would now like to help others? If so, please get in contact!

We are looking for mums who have recovered sufficiently that they feel able to support other mums, who can commit 2-4hrs per month and who have bundles of empathy.

If you fit this criteria, please email [email protected]

Many thanks! 💜☀️

Spring looks like it is nearly on its way, thank goodness! ☀️🌼🌸
Our Zoom and face-to-face groups are on weekly, if you’d like a hot cuppa and a chat in a safe, non judgmental space.
Just email us at [email protected] to book.
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💜 Juno Edinburgh is holding weekly zoom sessions offering our peer-support groups with fellow mums who are here to listen.

👋 If you'd like to join us then please email [email protected] for more information!

🥰 Sessions are held for one hour from 8pm till 9pm every Monday so grab a cuppa and join two of our facilitators who are happy to lend a listening ear.

💜The Juno team are experiencing some technical issues this evening - apologies to those waiting. We will be with you as soon as possible.

Our friends at Lothian Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) are running these events to stop maternal health inequality in Lothian. Please spread the word! 💜
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Join the movement to end maternal health inequalities in Lothian!

🚀 Launching 11th November 2023, 'Nothing About Us Without Us' is a community initiative brought to you by KWISA and NHS Lothian Maternity Voices Partnership.

Sign up now to secure your space at our launch event (spaces are limited): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nothing-about-us-without-us-welcomes-women-of-african-descent-in-lothian-tickets-745958069667?aff=oddtdtcreator

Who is it for? Women of African and Caribbean descent living in Edinburgh, Midlothian, East and West Lothian.

Our Mission: Promote positive pregnancy and birthing outcomes for all. Eradicate maternal health inequalities faced by ethnic minority women.

How do we achieve this?

Culturally Nuanced Health Education Workshops: Empowering sessions tailored to your unique needs.

Amplify Community Voices and Increase Participation: Your experiences matter, and we're committed to ensuring your voices shape maternity services in Lothian.

But that's not all!

📅 Save the Dates: 11/11/23, 18/11/23 and 2/12/23.

🌮 Enjoy Free Delicious Food: We'll keep you nourished and energised during the workshops.

🚗 Transportation Covered: Hold onto your receipt – we've got your transportation expenses covered!

Everyone Is Welcome: Women, men, and gender-expansive individuals and children.

Events are held in safe, family-friendly venues.

Let's make history together! Be part of the change you want to see. Join us in November and December 2023 to learn more.

We are still running a limited service on our Zoom group, up until Christmas, while we train up our new batch of fabulous volunteers. Please email [email protected] for the latest information. Many thanks! 💜

** TEMPORARY CHANGE TO ZOOM GROUP DATES **

During Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec we are needing to reduce the frequency of the online meeting to fortnightly, instead of weekly. This is because we are currently short on facilitator volunteers and are in the process of training up new ones. We have a wonderful new batch of volunteers in the pipeline and when they’re up and running we’ll be able to return to weekly meetings.

We are really sorry not to be able to offer our usual service for the next few months, but as Juno is entirely based on the kindness of unpaid volunteers our resources are not limitless.

If you have any questions at all get in touch with us at [email protected] and we’d be delighted to help.

Huge apologies if you tried to log in to our online group tonight. Our host facilitator had an A&E emergency and was unable to facilitate the group today at very short notice. Thankfully everything is ok so we will be back to normal for next group.

Our volunteers are on holiday next week (7th August), but group is back on Monday 14th August
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Our volunteers will be taking a well earned break from our Zoom group on 24th July, 7th August, 21st August.

If you need help during these times, please see our website for other services available:
http://www.juno.uk.com/useful-telephone-helplines/

All other Mondays, our Zoom group will be on as normal at 8pm.
Please email [email protected] to book or to get the latest info.

Many thanks!

The Juno Team 💜

Useful Services for Juno Peer Support group members EMERGENCY SERVICES Police, Fire, Ambulance: 999 NHS 24: 111 EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT Mental Health Assessment Service (MHAS): 0131 5376000 Edinburgh Crisis Centre 24/7: 0808 8010414, or tex…

Our Monday Zoom group is on as normal tonight, and our Tuesday 10am group is on as normal in Loanhead tomorrow.

If you would like to attend any of our groups, please email [email protected]

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** NEWSFLASH - We are recruiting!**

We are looking for a fresh batch of volunteers to join our wonderful Juno Peer Support Team as group facilitators.

Are you a mum with lived experience of facing depression, anxiety or trauma in pregnancy, birth or post birth?

Having recovered, would you like to help others?

Can you spare 2-4 hours per month to be a Juno volunteer?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

All training will be provided.

Please email [email protected]

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Juno is a volunteer-led grass roots organisation which offers peer support for mums struggling with their mental health in the perinatal period.

Please share with anyone who may be interested.

Many thanks!

Red Hot Kitty Burlesque and Cabaret held an auction at one of their shows to raise money for Juno. They raised £100! Amazing!! ❤️🙌
Thank you so much to everyone, we are hugely grateful xx

We have 2 groups on next week 🙌

Monday - online at 8pm
Tuesday - face-to-face in Stockbridge at 10:30am

Email to book your place:
[email protected]

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We have 2 groups on this coming week:

Monday 8pm Zoom Group
With Marion and Ana
** Spaces Available **

Tuesday 10:30am Stockbridge Group
With Laura and Giselle
** Limited spaces available **

Please email [email protected]
to book your place.

Love from the Juno Team
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Our weekly Zoom Group is on this Monday at 8pm, with Marion and Arianna.
*Spaces available*

Our next face to face group is on Tues 20th *Spaces available*

Email to book your place:
[email protected]

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So proud of our INCREDIBLE volunteer Laura, who talked about her healing journey in yesterday’s Daily Record.
She is an inspiration - living evidence that it IS possible to recover from perinatal anxiety, to thrive, to go on to help others, and to be whoever you want to be.
Her next show is on 1st October at the Voodoo Rooms.
Meanwhile her fabulous burlesque colleague Red Hot Kitty is very generously raising funds for Juno in her next show. Please come along and show your support!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haggis-neeps-and-titties-edinburgh-tickets-311116155797
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Our groups this week 🙌

Our weekly Monday evening Zoom Group continues as normal, and our fortnightly face-to-face group starts this coming Tuesday at LifeCare Stockbridge.

To book your place, please email us at [email protected]

See you soon! 💜

Love from the Juno Team # # #

** Our next monthly face-to-face group is on 30th May at Queen Street, 10:30 til 12 **
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Join our fabulous volunteers for a cuppa and chat. We even have a crèche worker or two, who can hold your baby while you have a hot cuppa!

Email [email protected] to book xx
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(Our weekly Zoom group continues as normal every Monday at 8pm)

Juno PMHS Edinburgh updated their business hours.

** Newsflash **

Biscuits are back!! Which means that our face-to-face group is back on - hurrah! ☕️🍪☕️🍪☕️🍪☕️🍪
Every last Monday of the month at 10.30am at Simpson House.
The next few sessions are on:
28th March, 25th April, 30th May, 27th June.

Our weekly Zoom group is on as normal, every Monday evening at 8pm.

If you'd like to join either our Zoom or face-to-face group, please drop us an email at [email protected]

Love from Team Juno xx

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A 🌟 HUGE 🌟 Thank You to the community of Longstone Kingsknowe who had a very special visitor 🎅 and chose to raise funds for Juno Edinburgh 💜 they raised a fantastic £268 👏

Juno relies solely on fundraising, the crowdfunder will be open until the end of the year. If anyone is looking to make a donation over the festive period it will be very gratefully received

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/support-weekly-juno-peer-support-groups/backers

One of our fabulous volunteers, Marion Inglis was on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, talking about the importance of peer support! 💜
You can listen to her from around 1hr 8mins into the programme. Well done Marion!! 👏👏👏
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zrw5

Sunday Morning - with Cathy Macdonald - BBC Sounds The cost of keeping a secret, the importance of gratitude and the Take One Action Festival

*** FACE-TO-FACE Groups are back, hurrah!! ***

Our new group in collaboration with CrossReach has just started.
It's every Monday (term-time) at 10.30am.
There are still some spaces, so please email us if you are interested in attending: [email protected]

We still have our weekly online Zoom Group on Monday evenings at 8pm running as normal. Again, please email us for the link, and 24 hours before attending, so our volunteers know to expect you.

Love from The Juno Team 💜

*** FACE-TO-FACE Groups are back, hurrah!! ***

Our new group in collaboration with CrossReach has just started.
It's every Monday (term-time) at 10.30am.
There are still some spaces, so please email us if you are interested in attending: [email protected]

We still have our weekly online Zoom Group on Monday evenings at 8pm running as normal. Again, please email us for the link, and 24 hours before attending, so our volunteers know to expect you.

Love from The Juno Team 💜

Rosey the founder of has created an amazing supportive community and at Juno we are very proud to be part of the 💜

What is ?

It is an amazing, supportive peer support community run via Twitter. We chat every week about different subjects in relation to parenting and mental health.

We've been running for 6.5 years and have connected thousands of mums, dad's, families, health care professionals and voluntary sector workers.

Many find comfort in simply observing the weekly chats by having that reassurance that they are not alone and that there is hope.

Whilst it is run on a public platform you will be supported and heard through our community. Many also choose to have private or anonymous accounts to join in or observe and that is more than OK.

Come and join the incredible 💜 🌈

You are not alone and you matter.