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Covid-19 Update January 2021

5 January 2021

Given last night's announcement from the government, we wanted to give you an update on our sessions and our plans for this third lockdown.

iMUSE for Mental Wellbeing

* iMUSE for Wellbeing Update Tuesday 12th January*
 
With the increasingly worrying rise in infection rates of Covid-19 across the country, we've taken the difficult decision to cancel our face-to-face iMUSE sessions starting from tomorrow.
 
Whilst we are legally allowed to operate our wellbeing sessions under the new government lockdown guidance, the safety of our participants and staff is our main priority. As such we feel that pausing our face-to-face sessions at the moment is the right thing to do.
 
We'll be reviewing the situation regularly and we'll restart sessions soon as we feel it's safe to do so.
 
We'll continue to support our iMUSE for Wellbeing participants remotely using our iMUSE at-home kits and via tailored emails and phone calls.
 
We'll be reviewing the situation regularly and we'll restart sessions soon as we feel it's safe to do so.

Our one-to-one iMUSE for mental wellbeing sessions at the Raylor Centre in York will continue on a Wednesday. The new lockdown guidance means that face-to-face support and therapy sessions are still able to go ahead.

We believe it's more important than ever to make sure we continue to support our iMUSE participants' mental health during this current lockdown. We’ll be following all Covid-secure guidelines to ensure that everyone feels as safe as possible during these sessions.

We've been in contact with all our current participants to offer them access to these sessions, but please get in touch if you haven't had a message from our iMUSE wellbeing team yet.

You can reach us at imuse@aamedia.org.uk or by calling        01904 626965.

Zoom Sessions

Our online sessions will continue as normal starting the week of the 11th of January. Everyone who takes part in our sessions will be receiving an email from us this week with all the details for the sessions. Our Zoom sessions are currently full, but if you'd like to be added to our waiting list please contact us at info@aamedia.org.uk or call us on 01904 626965.

Our 1-2-1 Sensory Sessions will continue online or by phone for those participants already taking part, we'll be in touch with everyone this week to confirm your sessions. 

Facebook and YouTube

Whilst we won't be restarting our live Facebook and YouTube sessions, we’ll be releasing new Sensory and Singing & Signing videos during the week for you to take part in at home. We also have a whole host of videos already on our YouTube channel which you can access for free at home.

We really hope you're all doing OK and that you're taking care of yourselves at this time. Hopefully, this National lockdown won't be as long as the first. But whatever happens, we'll be here sharing lots of fun things for you to take part in at home.

Sending love from all of us at AAM x