A history of achievements
The Elmore Team has a local and national reputation for delivering innovative services and pioneering research. Here are a few highlights from our history.
- November 2007: A new pilot service providing intensive support to people coming under Anti Social Behaviour legislation who have mental health issues is introduced.
- October 2007: Elmore user group begins an anti stigma and discrimination project
- June 2007: Elmore incresaed its work with offenders by implementing a specialist prison post to begin working with people with complex needs prior to their release from custody.
- October / November 2006: Elmore workers and clients carried out a survey of the needs of rough sleepers in Oxford. Report pending.
- Summer 2006: Working with the police, we completed a successful pilot outreach project to engage with sex workers. Report pending.
- August 2006: We refined our model and introduced a team approach, which enables us to prioritise our workload, so we're better equipped to respond in a crisis.
- May 2006: We completed a six-month evaluation into the needs of prisoners due to be released to ‘no fixed abode’ (NFA) in Oxford City. Read the report.
- May 2006: Shelter concluded a 15-month project monitoring our work with rough sleepers. The project is summarised in Catching people who fall through the net.
- May 2005: Elmore's User Group started.
- 2001-03: Funded jointly with Connection and Oxford Night Shelter, we delivered an older homeless people project.
- 1999: With funding from the Department of Health, we researched and produced Reflections: user and agency perspectives on dual diagnosis in the City of Oxford.
- 1994: We organised a successful court diversion scheme for mentally disordered people.
- 1991: The pilot project ended, and several statutory funding bodies agreed to jointly fund the service, which became known as the Elmore Team. The funders remain involved with Elmore today.
- 1990: We recruited a Continuing Care Worker to work with clients with HIV/AIDS and other physical health problems.
- 1988: An Oxford research project studied the weaknesses of service provision for people deemed ‘difficult to place’. The result was a three-year pilot project for people who have complex needs. This was the beginnings of the Elmore Team.