The Aasha Employment Project is a platform that focuses on rehabilitation by providing gainful employment for persons with mental health issues. Residents are engaged in rotational shifts and paid a remuneration for their work hours at the shops. The Aasha Employment project supports:

• Stationery and General store
• Grocery & General store
• Xerox shop
• Office, Xerox & General needs shop
• Paper cup production unit

Global MINDS @ Western is an Interdisciplinary Development Initiative of Western University, Canada with the objective of using social innovation approaches to catalyze the development, implementation, mobilization and evaluation of solutions to reduce the global burden of mental disorders and related issues (e.g., suicide). Global MINDS is focused on innovating for low resource settings in low and middle income countries (LMIC) (e.g., East Africa region) and for marginalized communities within Canada.

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Canada

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mHealth was a project that aimed at evaluating the applicability of a model that utilized mobile technology to train, supervise, support and monitor application of mhGAP-IG depression module on non-mental health workers. mHealth successfully developed and utilized a mobile phone application software version of the WHO Mental Health Treatment Gap Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) to screen and manage depression in patients attending four rural health centers.

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Sustainable and adapted treatment strategies to restore psychological functioning and mental health among displaced Somalis: Preparation of a multicenter treatment study was a pilot program that aimed to develop and evaluate new concepts of integrated community-based mental health services to Somali refugees in the urban refugee settlement in Kenya. The studies helped the researchers better understand the attitudes and expectations towards and the usage of different mental healthcare services within the community. The study also recognized that most Somali patients with severe mental disorders have a trauma-related disorders and an addiction problem, often with a multiple functional relationship in the sense that khat is used in order to self-medicate trauma-related symptoms.

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The Computer-Based Drug and Alcohol Training Assessment in Kenya (eDATA K) project provided online training to both clinical and non-clinical health workers to acquire competencies adapted from the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) and the WHO ASSIST manuals. The goals of the project was to:

• Helping identify those with SUD
• Provide ethical and non-judgmental care to those with SUD
• Use clinical brief intervention techniques
• Provide basic psychological and pharmaceutical treatment and 
• Identify and assist in managing co-morbidities

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Kenya

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The CREATE Project provides opportunities for people living with serious mental illness to be meaningfully employed and to achieve health and well-being within their communities.CREATE develops locally-viable social businesses and accompanying evidence-based recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation toolkit to employ and support the overall functioning and wellbeing of people living with mental illness.

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team.create.kenya@gmail.com

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DIALOGUE was a project that sought to empower, supervise, support and include informal traditional and faith healers to deliver evidence based mhGAP-IG adapted psycho-social interventions to reduce mental health treatment gap in Kenya. DIALOGUE discovered that traditional and faith healers (the clergy) and formal health care workers can collaborate successfully to provide mental health services in rural communities with limited access to specialist care. 

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KIDS is a program in Kenya whose focus is on promoting mental health, preventing illness and treating existing mental illness among children. Child and adolescent mental illness is one of the seven Grand challenges on mental health. The project provided an approach which aimed at promoting children’s mental well-being and support of positive cognitive development to break the vicious cycle of mental illness from continuing through adulthood which might have a detrimental effect on the individual’s quality of life. KIDS has demonstrated the feasibility of a multi-stakeholder intervention service model that maximizes the potential of children by promoting mental well-being, preventing mental illness, and treating existing mental illness.

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Kenya

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The LIPTIK Project provides entrepruership and psychosocial rehabilitation integration to promote successful recovery, community reintegration and improved quality of life for people living with mental illness.

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The TEAM Project is a multi-sectoral stakeholder team approach to scale-up community mental health in Kenya. It aims to build on locally-generated evidence and lessons learnt to effectively integrate mental health services with minimal expenditure of resources into pre-existing, community-based, government funded, formal and informal health services in Kenya. The project is currently taking place in Makueni County to strengthen effective, self-driven leadership and governance and to provide comprehensive community mental health awareness to impact on attitude and behavioral change in the community.

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AFG's supported employment projects aims people with learning disabilities and mental health needs to achieve and maintain meaningful employment as everyone else.They work in partnership with Mencap and Pure Innovations to help individuals look for meaningful employment opportunities including paid, voluntary, work experience placements and traineeships. They help people develop employability skills and we build the confidence and social skills they need for work life through

• Job profiling – working with individuals to find out what they want to do and identify their abilities, skills and talents.
• Job seeking  – working with individuals and employers to find the right job
• Filling out application forms
• Creation of CV’s and covering letters
• Interview preparation
• Travel training
• Supporting individuals on the job
• Job coaching
• Advice on benefits
• Access to training and educational opportunities

AFGs Supported Living provide living solutions to people with different levels of housing support and care needs including young people in transition, people with autism, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, substance misuse issues, mental health and complex care needs. Supported Living aims to equip people with the essential skills needed to stay living independently in their home of choice for as long as possible and lead a full and active life by helping someone remain in their existing tenancy, find a new home or make the transition from residential care or their family home into independent living. Support is provided in a variety of settings including individual homes or flats, shared housing/accommodation, extra care schemes and individual outreach/floating support services. There are numerous ways AFG are able to support individuals to keep well, safe and lead a fulfilling life as part of their community such as:

• Support to enhance an individual’s daily living skills including cooking, cleaning and shopping.
• Provide support to maintain tenancies including budgeting, setting up utility accounts, furnishing new properties, gaining home insurance, carrying out regular health and safety checks, understanding and following the terms and conditions of tenancy agreements and holding regular tenant meetings.
• Apply for and obtain appropriate benefits
• Support to help people keep their home safe and secure
• Support people to be more inclusive within their community by helping them to make friends and develop relationships, access local/wider community facilities, leisure activities, training and employment opportunities.
• Support independence by enabling them to make their own choices and decisions about life.
• Develop the person’s independent travel skills where appropriate

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Alternative Futures Group supports young people who are moving from children’s services such as residential care homes and school into more independent living. Their models are based on the Pathways to Getting a Life and focus on work, housing, good health, friends and relatives and community participation.to support people in the transition from children’s services into independent living within the wider community.  

Alternative Futures Group’s support planning process looks at a person’s whole life and how best to support them to achieve their aspirations, goals and outcomes.  They work closely with the person supported, those who care and know them best, and other professionals using a variety of Person Centred Tools. This process creates their Person Centred Plan, identifying clearly how the person would like to be supported, what their needs are and what good support looks like for them now and in the future. In preparing young people for adulthood AFG helps in different ways including:

• Support to live independently
• Finding a job
• Money and budget management
• Getting involved in the community and developing personal relationships

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Treatment & Recovery Centres provide support that draws on a wide range of expertise including Registered Nurses, Clinical Managers, Physical Health Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Forensic Specialists, Pharmacists,  Physical therapists, Horticulture therapists, Art therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists , Peer and Recovery/Support Workers qualified from certificate to Masters doctorate level . AFG supports people to:

• Obtain the right treatment to stabilise their condition and keep them safe
• Develop new skills, knowledge and interests so they can get their lives back on track
• Facilitate their support plan with Community Specialists so they can stay well in their local communities
• Facilitate access to social, employment and education services

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The Carers Forum is a safe, anonymous community for the friends, family and carers of people living with mental illness, moderated 24/7 by mental health professionals.

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The Lived Experience Forum is a safe, anonymous community for people living with mental illness, moderated 24/7 by mental health professionals.

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The Withdrawal Project’s Cope, Take Care of Yourself, and Heal section is a comprehensive, curated resource that holds the gathered experiences, learnings, tips, strategies and tools that we at TWP and many others have found helpful along our withdrawal journeys.The Withdrawal Project’s Cope, Take Care of Yourself, and Heal is a collectively developed, shared community resource of the psychiatric drug withdrawal community.

• Withdrawal Symptoms A to Z: an A to Z list of psychiatric drug withdrawal symptoms is comprised of many years of accumulated anecdotal reports from the layperson withdrawal community. 
• Coping Techniques A to Z: a curated list of tips, techniques, modalities, practices, exercises, and activities that people have reported to be effective for coping both with specific psychiatric drug withdrawal symptoms and with the whole withdrawal experience more broadly.
• Reclaim Your Health: information and resources aimed at helping you take back the innate power to heal and reclaim your brain and body through non-clinical, non-medical, “common sense” methods that laypeople have found beneficial along the withdrawal journey.

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ICI Connect is a one-on-one networking tool helps people who are asking questions or thinking critically about the mental health system find and connect with each other online or in person. Through geographical and interest-based searching, registered members can search for other members who live nearby to spark new friendships or collaborations, exchange mutual support, organize events or groups, set up crisis networks, or begin to build grassroots community alternatives to the mental health system

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Inner Compasss Conversation is a regular livestream conversations and Q&As inside a private Facebook community that started at the start of the COVID crisis. As of Summer 2022, Inner Compass Initiative began have 70 archived videos that cover a wide variety of topics including psychiatric diagnoses and self, coping with psychiatric drug withdrawal, how to support someone in the process of coming off medications, and many more.

Inner Compass Exchange provides space for community members to support one another, organize virtual and in-person groups and events, and engage in conversation about the immediate and longer-term questions, concerns, and challenges that arise from taking or coming off psychiatric drugs, receiving psychiatric diagnoses, or otherwise engaging with the mental health industry.

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Inner Compass Initiative has developed the mini-booklets, articles and Q&As in this section because descriptions of psychiatric diagnoses and treatments that are provided by most major medical and mental health websites are usually brief, vague and more “promotional” than factual. There are many reasons that some of these websites might knowingly or unwittingly promote misleading ideas about diagnoses and treatments – reasons that are explained in detail in some of our essays. Conversely, we believe that when seeking information to help make serious, potentially life-changing decisions about the well-being of your own (or a friend or loved one’s) body, brain, mind and spirit, you deserve a fairer opportunity to understand and evaluate the facts and potential risks and benefits. We believe that everyone deserves to be empowered to make truly informed choices.

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Learn/Unlearn is a section of Inner Compass website includes accessible, critical analyses of the mechanisms of action, effectiveness, safety and harms of the major classes of psychiatric drugs. It also includes an ever-expanding collection of articles that provide insights into the science and marketing of psychiatric drugs, the construction and promotion of psychiatric diagnoses, and alternative ways of understanding and moving through mental and emotional challenges.

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The Withdrawal Project (TWP) is an information resource designed to help people empower themselves to make more meaningfully informed choices — aligned with their personal desires and needs — regarding taking, reducing, and coming off psychiatric drugs. TWP's website includes a free, comprehensive, self-directed Companion Guide to Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal aimed at helping people learn and make decisions about the most risk-minimizing ways to prepare for tapering off and more responsibly taper off antidepressants, benzodiazepines, stimulants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, Z-drugs and other psychiatric drugs, along with coping techniques for dealing with common withdrawal symptoms

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editor@theinnercompass.org

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TWP Connect is a one-on-one networking tool hosted on ICI’s Withdrawal Project website allows registered members who are thinking about, are in the process of, or have past experiences of reducing or coming off psychiatric drugs to find and connect with one another. TWP Connect facilitates mutual support, the sharing of helpful resources and tips, in-person meetings, and hope and inspiration between members. 

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Mind has a team of over 40,000 campaigners to help us get respect and support for people with mental health problems. Mind campaigners work with us to campaign for a better deal for people with mental health problems. Become a Mind campaigner today. You'll be supported to speak out and take action on one or all of our campaigns. As a Mind campaigner, you can get involved in a range of activities like lobby politicians, sharing information about Mind campaigns and building pressure for change in your local area. We'll ask for your views when we respond to government proposals and we'll let you know about opportunities to feed into Mind's policy work.

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The Benefits Campaign run by being is a group of people campaigning for a fairer benefits system that better understands and supports you.

• Back-to-work: see the right support available when anyone with a mental health problem wants help to stay in their job or return to work after an absence.
• Sanctions: the threat of having your benefits stopped when you're too unwell to work can be incredibly damaging. We want Jobcentres to be there for support, not sanctions.
• The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) isn't fit for purpose. We're pushing for a change to the way people with mental health problems are assessed for out of work benefits.
• Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is replacing Disability Living Allowance. We're concerned about what that means for people with mental health problems
• Universal Credit is a new single benefit payment replacing several benefits. But the way it's been rolled out is causing real problems for many people with mental health problems.
• Briefings

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Blue light support for team 999 is Mind's emergency services save lives every day. Research shows blue light teams will always need support with their mental health, because of the pressures they face in their roles. Access our targeted support for staff, volunteers and employers across ambulance, fire, police, and search and rescue teams here.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Coronavirus and your mental health provides information and support for people who are struggling from Corona Virus and the changes that it has made for the world.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Mind provides information on a number of drug and treatment options. These include:

• Antidepressants
• Antidepressants A-Z
• Antipsychotics
• Antipsychotics A-Z
• Arts & Creative Therapies
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Complementary & Alternative Therapies
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Nature & Mental Health
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Lithium & Other Mood Stabilisers
• Psychiatric Medication
• Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
• Minfulness
• Neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD)
• Sleeping Pills & Minor Tranquilisers
• Sleeping pills & minor tranquillisers A-Z
• St John's wort - Hypericum perforatum
• Talking Therapies & Counselling

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Everyday Living provides tips and guides to help people cope with everyday things like money, work, university and more.

• Supporting Someone Else
• Food & Mood
• Insurance Cover & Mental Health
• LGBTIQ+ & Mental Health
• Loneliness
• Mindfulness
• Nature & Mental Health
• Online Mental Health
• Parenting With a Mental Health Condition
• Physical Activity & Your Mental Health
• Relaxation
• Sleep Problems
• Managing Stress
• Coping With Student Life
• Mental Wellbeing
• Mental Health at Work

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Heads Together has encouraged millions of people to have important conversations about mental health. Money raised by Heads Together is now supporting innovative projects to tackle the challenges we can all face in talking about our mental health. This includes a £2m fund to create digital tools for young people seeking help for their mental health online and new programmes to support mental health in schools, workplaces and the defence community.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Mind's housing and mental health include a number of issues across the private and social housing sectors which mean not enough people are living in the kind of housing they need. 

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Infoline provides an information and signposting service. We're open 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday (except for bank holidays). Ask us about:

• Mental health problems
• Where to get help near you
• Treatment options
• Advocacy services.

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Mind Infoline, PO Box 75225, London, E15 9FS

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Contact Person / Email
info@mind.org.uk

Call 0300 123 3393

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Leaving hospital provides support hen you come out of hospital after a mental health crisis, you need the right care and support to help you recover and put your life back together. You need to feel prepared and confident you will get the support and services you need to help pick up the pieces and continue getting better. If you feel rushed and unsupported you risk becoming unwell again and going back into hospital

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Mind's Legal line provides legal information and general advice on mental health related law. We're open 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday (except for bank holidays). Ask us about:

• Being detained under the Mental Health Act (sectioning)
• Mental capacity
• Community care
• Discrimination and equality

Address
PO Box 75225, London, E15 9FS

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Contact Person / Email
legal@mind.org.uk

Call 0300 466 6463

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Legal rights is a number information resources aimed at adults living in England or Wales who have direct experience of mental health problems.

• Advocacy in Mental Health
• Clinical Negligence
• Community Treatment Orders
• Complaints
• Consent To Treatment
• Courts & Mental Health
• DBS Checks & Mental Health
• Disability Discrimination
• Discrimination With Housing
• Discrimination in Everyday life
• Discrimination at Work
• Fitness to Drive
• Health & Social Care Rights
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Insurance Cover & Mental Health
• Leaving Hospital
• Legal Glossary
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Mental Health Act 1983
• Nearest Relative
• My Personal Information
• Police & Mental Health
• Sectioning
• Voluntary Patients
• Helping Someone Else

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Local Mind services supported over 425,000 people across England and Wales this year. Their network of independent local Minds are run by local people, for local people. Their services include:

• Talking therapies
• Crisis helplines
• Drop-in centres
• Employment and training schemes
• Counselling 
• Befriending
• Peer support
• Advocacy
• Crisis care
• Employment and housing support

Each local Mind is an independent charity run by local people, for local people. They are responsible for their own funding and services. We work together in partnership with our local Minds. Each local Mind is unique. They understand the needs of their community and they tailor their services to match. 

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MindFreedom published a comprehensive handbook for psychiatric survivors. This guide is intended to help survivors protect themselves and others from psychiatric harm as well as organize for human rights throughout the world.

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Mind has been working in partnership with the English Football League (EFL), to raise awareness of mental health, to improve the approach to mental health in football, and to raise funds to deliver life-changing support. Since the launch of the partnership, our ‘squiggle’ has appeared on the back of every EFL shirt across all Clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two, in a first for English football. Having our logo on shirts has helped us achieve real change by raising awareness and understanding of mental health in football, sport and society as a whole.

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Peer support is when people use their own experiences to help each other. Forms of peer support include community groups, mentoring, befriending, self-help groups, online communities and support groups.  Support is based on sharing experiences and agreeing a reason for meeting. How you choose to meet up or connect with people is very flexible and depends on your personal preferences. Peer support can improve your emotional health, wellbeing and sense of belonging.

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United States Minor Outlying Islands

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Mind has a number shops in England and Wales that are opoen. You can find our shops in more than 170 communities around England and Wales, selling high quality items mostly donated by you.  The money raised from our sales helps to support people in your local community through national campaigning, providing information and support through our helplines, website and publications, as well as your local Mind. 

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Guides to Support and Services provides information on a number of topics. These include:

• Abuse
• Addiction & Dependence
• Advocacy in Mental Health
• Benefits FAQ
• Bereavement
• Crisis Services & Planning
• Holidays & Respite Care
• Housing & Mental Health
• Insurance Cover & Mental Health
• Learning Disability & Support
• LGBTIQ+ & Mental Health
• Money & Mental Health
• Peer Support
• Seeking Help for Mental Health
• Talking Therapies & Counselling
•  

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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More than 16,000 of you told us how the pandemic has affected your mental health in our research. The findings are clear. Prioritising mental health has never been more critical. Many of us are experiencing problems for the first time and those of us who were already struggling are finding things even harder. Our health and social care services are and will continue to be under pressure like never before. The devasting loss of life, the impact of lockdown, and the inevitable recession will have deep and lasting consequences on all our lives. Those in power can make the right choices to make sure the society that comes after the pandemic is kinder, fairer and safer. This can only be achieved if the UK Government meets our five tests:  

• Invest in community services 
• Protect those most at risk   
• Reform the Mental Health Act    
• Provide a financial safety net  
• Support children and young people 

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An advance directive is a written document that expresses your wishes in advance about what types of treatments, services and other assistance you want during a personal mental health crisis. A directive provides a clear statement of your medical treatment preferences and other wishes or instructions. You can also use it to grant legal decision-making authority to another person to be your advocate and agent until the crisis is over.

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Scouts' A Million Hands Programme - better mental health for all are you and your young people up for the challenge including fun activities, learning for young people, helping others and taking action with our mental health activities.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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scouts@mind.org.uk

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Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through. We all know what it's like to struggle sometimes, but now there's a safe place to listen, share and be heard. Whether you're feeling good right now, or having a hard time, it's a safe place to share experiences and listen to others. The community is available to all, 24/7. Side by Side is moderated daily from 8.30am to midnight.

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Mind ensured that 34,000 signed Mind's letter calling for the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure we can all receive sick pay from the first day we’re off sick, which equals the minimum wage and is available to everyone for up to a year. But months later we are still waiting for these changes to be implemented.

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The Forced Drugging Defense Package developed by the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights for the MindFreedom Shield program. As part of the MindFreedom Shield Program, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) has prepared and contributed a generic Forced Drugging Defense Package, for adaptation and use by people facing forced drugging  around the country.  The Forced Drugging Defense Package is built around the written expert testimony of Grace E. Jackson, MD, and the award winning author of Mad in America, Robert Whitaker, which PsychRights has successfully used to stop forced drugging in one of its cases.

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Mind, along with Rethink Mental Illness, is a partner in Time to Change, England's most ambitious campaign to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. This multi-faceted campaign includes:

• A high-profile anti-stigma campaign
• Targeted work with organisations, young people and African and Caribbean communities
• A network of grassroots activists combating discrimination; and
• A pilot scheme working with mental health professionals and attitudes towards mental health.

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Types of mental health problems is information provided by Mind that focus on diagnosis, treatment options and where to go for support. 

• Anger
• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
• Bipolar Disorder
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Depression
• Disassociation and Disassociation Disorders
• Recreational Drugs & Alcohol
• Eating Problems
• Hearing Voices
• Hoarding
• Hypomania & Mania
• Loneliness
• Mental Health Problems
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
• Paranoia
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Postnatal Depression & Perinatal Mental Health
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Premenstrual Dysorphic Disorder
• Psychosis
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Harm
• Sleep Problems
• Stress
• Suicidal Feelings
• Tardive Dykinesia
• Trauma

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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You and your GP is aimed for everyone with a mental health problem who visits their GP practice or another primary care service to get the support that best suits their needs. That's what our primary care campaign is all about.

• GP Staff Wellbeing
• Policy Work

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Healthy Minds is a Mind in Camden Project aimed at supporting adults who may be struggling with their mental health, feeling isolated or disconnected with their community, or would like some additional support in finding out what their local area has to offer them. The Programme has partnered with a range of different community providers to offer our participants free access to workshops, courses and group activities, to support people living in Camden to improve their wellbeing. They can offer 1:1 sessions with trained Navigators to help people to identify their interests, uncover passions and to plan and pursue their goals and 1:1 sessions with sports buddied to support your physical fitness goals. Once registered with Healthy Minds participants will have access to up to 12 months of activities which you can use to tailor your own personal schedule. For those who are interested in furthering your education or skills, we can provide financial support for courses at The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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healthymindscp@mindincamden.org.uk

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Mind in Camden has a wealth of experience in training, consultancy and delivering innovative services.

1. Training Courses: quality training opportunities. Recent courses have included Removing The Barriers: Supporting children and young people who hear voices to get the most from education and life; Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training (focusing on groups for young people, prisons or adults); Supporting children and young people who hear voices; Co-production: A fresh approach to providing Day Support Services; and Creative ways of working with young people who hear voices
2. Bespoke Training and Consultancy
3. Paranoia Peer Support Group Facilitator: facilitation in specialist areas including Hearing Voices Group / Network Development; Paranoia and Unusual Beliefs Peer Support Groups; Minor Tranquillisers; Co-production – service users providing services alongside staff and volunteers; Participationl Developing peer support groups in prisons and secure environments and Recovery-oriented ways of working with people who struggle with difficult voice-hearing experiences, unusual beliefs and extremes of mood

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Contact Person / Email
admin@mindincamden.org.uk

Call 020 7911 0822

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The Social Prescribing Service works in partnership with community providers in Camden to deliver easily accessible one-to-one support to Camden residents struggling with their mental health. The main aim of the service is to support people to access community services, projects and activities to aid their mental health recovery. The Social Prescribing Team operates as a whole service made up of two parts:

• TAP Social Prescribing: working holistically using a whole team approach alongside Tavistock and Portman. This is provided by staff and is aimed at people who need a greater degree of support to think about their goals.
• Healthy Minds Social Prescribing: aimed at people who may have a clearer sense of their goals and are more ready to work towards them with some additional support. This is mainly provided by trained volunteers, with support from staff who carry out initial meetings.

Once a referral is received to the service, the person will be allocated to the team which can best support their needs. The service works in a person centred way, customising the approach around the needs and wishes of the person participating in Social Prescribing. They can expect:

• 8-12 sessions of one to one support to explore their current situation, identify needs and focus on achievable goals.
• A friendly and flexible approach.
• Guidance and information on available community resources
• Support to make contact with community or voluntary sector organisations.
• An opportunity to review progress at intervals after the series of sessions has concluded.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Phoenix Wellbeing & Recovery Service offers a range of options to support your recovery and emotional health so that you can choose what works best for you.

• Support Space: Phoenix is an welcoming social space where you can come for practical, emotional and crisis support with our recovery staff and volunteers. We offer subsidised meals, computer access (inc WIFI), and a range of  co-produced activities, peer support, one-to-one counselling or group therapy, and seasonal events and trips.
• Weekend Social Club: a group to meet others and build friendships in a supportive environment.
• Workshops: activities led by people with special expertise for continued personal development. Current workshops include Yoga, Mindfulness, Art, Music, Computer Basics, Writing, Walking Group.  
• Peer Support Groups: meetings to share experiences and support one another. 
  Group Therapy: weekly small group sessions with experienced therapists.
• Events and trips: day trips within and beyond London, festive celebrations, one-off workshops and short courses with guest facilitators.
• One-to-One Recovery Support: meet your supporter weekly for any of the following: coffee and a chat, outings, practical support (e.g. phone calls, answering mail), and/or support to identify, set and achieve your goals.
• Hearing Voices One-to-One Support: support with making sense of your voices, visions and other sensory experiences.
• Counselling: longer term service of 24 weeks of talking therapy provided by a psychotherapist in training. I

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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referrals@mindincamden.org.uk

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The Cultural Advocacy Project aims to support community groups and organisations to promote wellbeing and support individuals and families to look after their mental health. This support is coproduced with community members so it is reflective of specific cultural needs. Each organisation is offered tailor made training and consultancy to help establish groups and events which can best achieve these aims. They aim to:

• Help reduce the sense of isolation experienced by BAME community members struggling with their mental health.
• Help improve levels of wellbeing and self-confidence of people experiencing distress, taking into consideration their specific cultural needs.
• Help enable individuals to access support services in a timely way and work alongside community groups and mainstream providers to ensure these services are inclusive and support cultural needs.

Along with community organisations, we have set up Peer Support Groups for members of the community to connect with people from their cultural background who have similar experiences. These free supportive networks are warm and encouraging spaces, enabling members to be around like minded people and safely ask questions, learn skills and share experiences.

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Barnes House, 9-15 Camden Road London, NW1 9LQ

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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BAnwar@mindincamden.org.uk

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The London Paranoia & Beliefs Project developed peer support groups across the capital for people experiencing paranoia. The project worked in collaboration with the National Paranoia Network who have run a Paranoia Group in Sheffield since 2004, and partnered a range of organisations across London to provide training and support for a sustainable network of groups (hosted by partner organisations and run independently). The London Paranoia & Beliefs Network offers the following:

• Group Facilitation Training for professionals and/or service users wishing to develop a Paranoia & Beliefs  Group — an opportunity for people both with lived experience of paranoia, and without it, to train together and discover common ground. See our Training & Events Calendar for upcoming trainings.
• Networking for group facilitators: networking events held quarterly by the London Hearing Voices Network are also shared by the London Paranoia & Beliefs Network. M
• Materials and resources to support the development of groups. THE FOLLOWING DOWNLOADS ARE AVAILABLE:
• Pitching and Promoting Your Group 

The London Paranoia & Beliefs Project was developed from the London Hearing Voices Project, whose work over the period 2006-10 had resulted in a currently-thriving network of over 40 Hearing Voices Groups.Paranoia & Beliefs Groups are safe, supportive spaces where people meet to share their experiences and learn from one another. They provide opportunity to learn to cope with the distress related to beliefs – both where the belief itself is inherently distressing, and also where the distress can be a result of how those beliefs are viewed by others. It is widely accepted that fear, distress, isolation, stigma and hopelessness are barriers to recovery. Membership of a Paranoia & Beliefs Group, with its strong ethos of self help, can help reduce this. Groups are non-judgemental (based on mutual respect, empathy and acceptance), a safe space to explore meaning and content of experiences, based around the needs of the members, recovery-focused (seeing current distress as temporary and understandable) and a supportive social network, embracing a diversity of views. T

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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jwetherell@mindincamden.org.uk

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Voice Collective Youth Project  is a Mind in Camden project that works in partnership with youth services across Greater London to help ensure that these children, young people and families get the best support possible. They offer:

• Peer support groups, so you can meet with other young people
• Creative workshops where you can learn new skills and have some fun
• 1-2-1 support around making sense of voices and finding coping strategies (by email, phone and/or in person)
• Information and signposting to help you find the right services and support for you
• Support for schools, social services, CAMHS and other youth agencies to work with children and young people who have these experiences. We are flexible in what we offer, so do get in touch to explore how we might work together.
• Training for staff to support those already working with a child or young person who hears voices
• Mentoring and coaching for staff wanting to think about creative coping strategies or explore different ways of understanding a young person’s difficulties
• Awareness raising (including PSHE lessons, assemblies and awareness raising workshops for youth workers)
• Help developing written information, policies and guidance around supporting young people who hear voices

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Contact Person / Email
info@voicecollective.co.uk

Call 020 7911 0822,

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Voices Unlocked establishes and supports a sustainable network of Hearing Voices Groups in prisons, secure units and Immigration Removal Centres. Voices Unlocked supports individuals to share and to explore their experiences in safe, facilitated spaces, with the aim of reducing stigma, isolation and social exclusion. The project empowers people to develop effective coping strategies, improving their confidence and quality of life, and to understand their experiences within their own frames of reference. The project aims to:

• Empower people in prisons, secure units and IRCs to take control of their voice-hearing experience and to learn ways of understanding and coping with them
• Reduce the distress, fear and stigma experienced by voice-hearers within prisons, secure units and IRCs
• Ensure that those involved in the project are connected to the Hearing Voices Network, preferably with the contact details of a specific group, on leaving a prison/secure unit

Voices Unlocked offers a variety of free training courses, from our popular Understanding & Supporting People in Prison who Hear Voices and Hearing Voices Group Facilitation training, to more specialist courses such as complex trauma and dissociation.  They aim to:

• Stimulate interest and commitment from prisons, secure units, IRCs and voluntary agencies that work within them throughout the UK
• Work alongside these organisations to set up well-facilitated Hearing Voices peer support groups
• Train and support those already working in prisons, secure units and IRCs as group facilitators (including regular peer support meetings, 1:1 support and a buddying scheme)
• Collate examples of good practice and distribute them in the form of guidelines, articles, training and a ‘how to’ guide for group facilitators
• Develop and deliver an innovative programme of bespoke workshops for people in prisons who hear voices, see visions or have other ‘unusual’ sensory experiences/beliefs and mental distress

Address
Voices Unlocked Mind in Camden 9-15 Camden Road London NW1 9LQ

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Contact Person / Email
vu@mindincamden.org.uk

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Rethink Mental Illness supporters campaign nationally and locally to improve the lives of everyone living with mental illness. Together, we have pushed mental health up the public agenda and changed Government policy. 

• Act for Mental Health: the Review's interim report confirms what we have long known: that there are serious problems with the Mental Health Act. Click here to email your MP about improving the rights of people detained under the Mental Health Act.
• Rethink Mental Illness Campaigner: help us campaign to change the lives of people affected by mental illness by signing up to be a Rethink Mental Illness campaigner.
• Start your own campaign: whether you want to tackle stigma, save a local service or fight for changes to the law - the Take Action Guide is full of information and tips to help you create and run your own campaigns.
• Mental Health Taskforce: recommendations to improve mental health outcomes over the next five years. Within this, the NHS has committed to £1billion to implement the recommendations of the Taskforce.

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Rethink Mental Illness deliver 16 mental health Carers Services which are proven to deliver wellbeing for carers and over 95% of people using our services say they are respected, listened to and get the right kind of support. Each year we support nearly 1500 carers through our commissioned services and 1000s more through our national helpline. We also support 52 independent carer’s groups as part of our national network of peer support groups. Support combines a range of options including:

• One-to-one support: Emotional and practical support including psycho-education and goal planning, using our Carer Support Planning Tools.
• Advice and information: Navigating mental health services, support available locally, carers’ rights and the Care Act 2014.
• Peer Support Groups, carer led groups providing additional support and a chance to share information and coping strategies. 
• Recovery Sessions; including our recovery and education focused group activities, drop-ins, peer support, and daily living skills. 
• Respite activities and outings.
• Physical health checks and GP liaison.
• Caring and Coping Training, our modular training programme which provides information and peer support for carers as well as an opportunity to develop practical skills including communication, coping strategies and self help.
• Education, training and employment opportunities.
• Community engagement to reduce isolation and increase social interaction.
• Involvement and volunteering opportunities.

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Carers, family and friends is for everyone affected by mental illness, carers, families and friends. Much of the information is designed for people who know someone who has a mental illness. Our Diagnosis & Treatment section and Living with mental illnesssections are more designed for people directly affected. Although some information is written with a particular reader in mind, all of it is open to everyone. In this section you can also find information and advice from our Siblings Network, a unique project for brothers and sisters of people with mental health issues.

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Carers, family and friends is for everyone affected by mental illness, carers, families and friends. Much of the information is designed for people who know someone who has a mental illness. Our Diagnosis & Treatment section and Living with mental illnesssections are more designed for people directly affected. Although some information is written with a particular reader in mind, all of it is open to everyone. In this section you can also find information and advice from our Siblings Network, a unique project for brothers and sisters of people with mental health issues.

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Carers, family and friends is for everyone affected by mental illness, carers, families and friends. Much of the information is designed for people who know someone who has a mental illness. Our Diagnosis & Treatment section and Living with mental illnesssections are more designed for people directly affected. Although some information is written with a particular reader in mind, all of it is open to everyone. In this section you can also find information and advice from our Siblings Network, a unique project for brothers and sisters of people with mental health issues.

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Co-production is about the inclusion of people with lived experience of mental illness, as well as their partners, family and friends in the commissioning, planning and delivery of services as equal partners with service providers and professionals. All our projects are developed in partnership with people with lived experience, and the success of our approach depends on a team of volunteer champions and advisors. They have been delivering co-production projects since 2011, which include supporting mental health commissioning through:

• Co-production
• Supporting the co-design of services
• Co-delivering training support for young people, parents, service providers & other professionals. 

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Rethink Mental Illness provides a number of community support services, offering people with severe mental illness the support and help they need to regain confidence to engage in everyday social and workplace activities. As people’s mental health needs and aspirations change over time, the support we offer is based on a flexible and personalised approach to recovery, working closely with both the individual and their key worker. They constantly strive for improvement to our services and they all operate within our own Quality Assurance Programme. 

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The court process can be confusing and overwhelming for the families and carers of people with mental illness. We provide two court-based Community Advice and Support Services in Plymouth, Bodmin and Truro. We provide advice and support in courts to offenders and their families to aid resettlement and reintegration, with the aim of reducing offending. Our support is integral to the successful operating of Community Justice courts in Plymouth, taking a problem-solving approach and working in partnership with designated police and probation officers. We ensure that families and partners of prisoners are assisted at the point of sentence so they understand more about the court and prison systems and are better able to keep in touch. We continue to work with offenders afterwards, providing an open door and signposting people to other support services.

• Talking therapies in prison: based upon our reputation for delivering community based talking therapies, we have recently begun delivering talking therapies within the prison system. We are now the largest provider of primary care psychological therapy services in the country, after the NHS. We are delivering services across five prisons in Doncaster and two prisons in Wakefield.
• Resettlement: since April 2011 we have worked in HMP Nottingham with Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust to provide personalised resettlement support for offenders with an identified mental health need who are leaving prison after a sentence of less than a year. By providing a consistent source of support, which short-term offenders with mental health needs currently lack, we improve offenders’ social and psychological outcomes as well as reduce reoffending rates. This group of people “fall through the net” of statutory service because they do not qualify for support from the probation service and are not tracked through prison by mental health services. Once released from prison this group is very vulnerable to a further decline in their mental health and/or a high likelihood of reoffending. The resettlement workers are supervised by the NHS outreach worker based in the prison (within existing NHS provision). Prisoners identified as having a mental health problem on reception to the prison are immediately linked with the resettlement workers. The team supports the person throughout their sentence, advocating (in a non-technical sense) on their behalf in the community for the necessary support prior to release.

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Rethink Mental Illness services support individuals who are facing a mental health crisis or leaving hospital after accessing in-patient services. We can support people in the community or in short term accommodation, providing a safe and therapeutic space and specialist support. They work in partnership with NHS and local authority providers to manage referrals, admission and discharge and ensure continued access to clinical interventions to deliver a holistic and integrated package of support that empowers individuals to get well and stay well. This includes:

• Outcome focused: personalised support planning
• Recovery Sessions: recovery and education focused group activities and peer support 
• A safe and therapeutic environment with 24/7 support from expert staff
• Community and social engagement, signposting and information
• Involvement and volunteering opportunities
• Co-produced services developed alongside people with experience of mental illness.

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Rethink's Supported Housing services are proven to deliver improved outcomes for service users, including improved mental health, reduced social isolation, better self-care and increased daily living skills. They recognise that people’s recovery journeys progress at different paces and they need different levels of support along the way. We provide a range of options from floating support to 24/7 high support services that enable people to sustain stable accommodation and help prevent homelessness and admission, or re-admission to hospital. They Supported Accommodation services provide people with a high quality home and a therapeutic and recovery focused environment with the support to live independently. They can provide:

• Personalised one to one support planning including complex case work with flexible packages ranging from short term to longerterm care.
• Integration with multiple agencies including Community Mental Health teams, Probation and Social Care.
• Support to access and maintain appropriate accommodation in both the social and private rented sector.
• Daily living skills including paying bills, budgeting, shopping and healthy eating.
• Education, training and employment opportunities.
• Recovery Sessions; including our recovery and education focused group activities, drop-ins and peer support.
• Physical health checks, GP liaison and support with medication.
• Community engagement to reduce isolation and increase social interaction.
• Involvement and volunteering opportunities.
• Property management, rent collection and tenancy agreements.

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Rethink has information on many aspects of your daily life, from physical health to work and education.

• Money issues, benefits & employment: iving with a mental health condition can make managing money and securing work more difficult. This section can help you understand what you can do.
• Mental health laws: find out more about the Mental Health Act and other important rules & rights.
• Police, courts & prison: information that might help if you or someone you know is involved with the police, court or priso
• Wellbeing & physical health: diet, physical health and other aspects of wellbeing. Most of the pages here can also be found in our Good Health Guide
• Online community

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Mental health training is one of our key ways of changing the experience of people affected by poor mental health in this country. We deliver this for a wide variety of different audiences, through local services, partnerships and contracts managed and delivered by our External Training team.  Rethink aims to enable people to feel more comfortable and confident to talk about mental health and know more about how to respond when problems arise. The standard courses we offer include:

1. Mental Health First Aid 
2. Mental Health Awareness 
3. Mental Health in the Workplace for Managers 
4. Mindfulness, Wellbeing and Resilience 
5. Youth Mental Health First Aid 
6. Mental Health Awareness e-learning (45 - 60 mins)

Our trainers and ‘experts by experience’ work together to develop and deliver our high-quality training. This approach brings together both theoretical and real life experiences to produce a comprehensive training package. Our participants have said that this style of training offered them a unique perspective into understanding mental health and living with mental health problems. Our courses are supported by resource packs so that participants can reinforce their learning with additional skills and toolsOur training team can also work with you to design and deliver bespoke training which meets the specific requirements of your organisation.

Contact Person / Email
training@rethink.org

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Rethink Mental Illness runs a number of nursing and residential care homes, providing nearly 200 beds and offering rehabilitation and support to people with severe and long-term mental illness. Rethink Recovery House has helped me to make a whole turnaround from where I was when I came first to the house after five years in different hospitals. I was extremely anxious, without hope and felt totally unable to keep up with everyday life. With staff support and continuous planning and feedback from care plans I have improved considerably. They provide flexible, responsive and needs-led care based on our core beliefs in recovery and the involvement of individuals in the management of their own condition. All our homes have the ultimate aim of enabling residents to move on to more independent accommodation and sustaining their independence by providing access to flexible staff support that meets their changing needs. Nursing and residential care services offer a variety of nursing and residential care services including:

• Homes designed to provide a stable home life, especially for those who have been resettled from long-stay hospitals
• Homes which provide places for relatively short-term multi-disciplinary assessment

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Rethink Mental Illness has developed a comprehensive range of materials to build confidence and raise awareness of the physical health needs of people affected by mental illness. These resources are designed for professionals across primary and secondary care. They have recently developed a toolkit of resources to support the 2014/15 national CQUIN (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) programme to improve the physical health of people affected by mental illness. This contains our Integrated Physical Health Pathway, endorsed by the Royal Colleges of GPs, Nursing and Psychiatrists, the Physical Health Check tool, the SARIT (Self-Assessment of Readiness for Implementation tool), information sheets and practical resources to help staff implementing the CQUIN. This can be downloaded for free below. 

• CQUIN toolki: this set of resources support the implementation of the national CQUIN for 2014/15 to improve the physical health of people affected by mental illness. This includes our updated Integrated Physical Health Pathway and Physical Health Check tool, the SARIT (Self-Assessment of Readiness for Implementation tool), posters, factsheets and other resources for health professionals.
• Physical health leaflet for people using mental health inpatient services. Rethink Mental Illness has designed a new information leaflet about physical health checks in inpatient mental health services so that people know what to expect. This leaflet is also part of our comprehensive CQUIN toolkit above.
• Good health guide: support people you work with by sharing this guide to healthy living. It is full of practical information and helpful tips for people affected by mental illness.
• Physical health guide for carers: this is our guide to physical health for carers, families and friends. This booklet helps carers to get better physical healthcare for the person they support. It contains tips on medication, preparing for GP appointments and information sharing.
• Physical health check flyer: a great, simple resource with all the basic facts you need to know about physical health checks. It is something that can be easily shared online or put up in a waiting room at a GP surgery.

The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH-UK) has produced a physical health information booklet for young people taking antipsychotic medication. It may also be helpful for families and carers when a child or young person is first prescribed medication. 

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• The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mental Health is a group of MPs and Peers from all political parties who are interested in mental health.
• The public affairs team work to ensure the rights of people severely affected by mental illness are respected and enhance

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The Evaluation Team supports high quality data capture, analysis and reporting in relation to our services operating across England.

• Outcomes and impact: We work closely with service staff and managers and colleagues in other departments to develop routine data capture tools and are assisting the introduction of an organisation-wide database.
• Service satisfaction: We analyse service data and satisfaction feedback from people using our services, and produce high-quality reports for a range of audiences.
• Service user involvement: We work closely in collaboration with people who have personal experience of using mental health services.
• External collaboration: We collaborate with academic partners to ensure best practice and provide critical external perspectives on service evaluation.

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Siblings Network for brothers and sisters provides information and advice and an opportunity to hear sibling stories and talk to others. We also have info for parents and professionals.

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The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mental Health is a group of MPs and Peers from all political parties who are interested in mental health. Rethink Mental Illness and the Royal College of Psychiatrists provide the secretariat for the APPG. Together, they help shape the group’s agenda and organise events with Government Ministers, NHS organisations, health professionals, research bodies and people with experience of mental illness. 

The APPG is holding an inquiry into the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the Government's five-year strategy to improve our mental health services. The inquiry will look at areas of improvement and areas that need more focus. At the end of 2018, we will produce a report and a series of recommendations for the Government to keep a spotlight on mental health. The open call for written evidence closed on 15th June 2018. We have had nearly 70 responses to the inquiry from service users, professionals and stakeholders including King's Fund, the CQC, NHS England. We held a meeting of service users and carers to get their views on the Government's plan to improve mental health and visited a community mental health service, both of which will contribute to the final inquiry. 

In 2017, we held events on the government consultations on supported housing and welfare for those with mental health problems. We hosted a drop-in session for MPs about the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard, so parliamentarians could better hold the Government to account on how their local mental health services were improving.

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The Children's Society on their Young Carers in Focus project aims to enable you, as young carers, to be heard and get better access to practical advice and support, and to tell your own story in a way that feels positive and meaningful. They have some great resources for young carers. 

• Young and Caring - Accessing Support:this guide is here to help make sure you can access the right support for you.
• Young and Caring - Caring for Someone with a Mental Illness. This guide is to help make sense of caring for someone with a mental illness.

Contact Person / Email
youngpeople@rethink.org

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The independent Schizophrenia Commission was established by Rethink Mental Illness to scope the state of care and outcomes for people living with Schizophrenia in England. In 2012 the Commission published a groundbreaking report called Schizophrenia - The Abandoned Illness. This revealed a dysfunctional system that is not delivering the quality of treatment people need for recovery and includes key recommendations to promote change. Rethink Mental Illness’ campaigning priorities have been directly informed by the recommendations of the Commission. Find out what issues we are campaigning on. 

• Schizophrenia Commission Report 
• The Schizophrenia Commission Executive Summary 
• LSE economic report for Schizophrenia Commission: consider the societal costs of schizophrenia. An economic report by the London school of Economics was produced in tandem with our report 

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Time to Change is England’s most ambitious programme to end the stigma and discrimination experienced by people with mental health problems. It’s led by Rethink Mental Illness, in partnership with Mind, because it's an issue that has such a big impact on the lives of our supporters and members. Speaking openly about mental health is a vital element in changing the way we all think and act about mental health. Since 2009, Time to Change campaign bursts have inspired thousands of conversations, shared peoples’ stories, and shown practical ways to be in other people’s corners – whether they’re a friend, family member or colleague. It speaks to adults and the next generation of young people coming through school. An annual Time to Talk Day, in February, also gives individuals, organisations and schools the chance to get the nation talking about mental health.

Address
15-19 Broadway LONDON E15 4BQ England

Contact Person / Email
info@time-to-change.org.uk

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Rethink young people's area for information on how you can look after your mental health, support a friend or relative and what to do if you are concerned. One can also be updated on Rethink's latest opportunities to get involved in our young people's services.

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YOUR DATA aims for people to understand what happens with your data. By 'data' we mean any information that can be used to identify you personally - so your name, address, date of birth, email address, phone number, and things like settings on your phone or computer browser that can tell which websites you've visited recently.

Contact Person / Email
supportercare@rethink.org

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Maintaining a Healthy Mind provides some “tips” on daily lifestyle modifications to help keep a healthy mind, body, and soul. Another goal of MHF is to provide more information about various non-pharmacological treatment options and how to maintain your mental health. Seven Habits For a Health Mind in a Healthy Body include:

• Daily Physicality: Exercise for at least 20 minutes most days of the week.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Spend some time in focused thought, exploring new ideas every day.
• Foster Creativity: Challenge your mind to connect unrelated ideas in new and useful ways.
• Human Unity: Create and maintain close-knit human bonds and a social support network.
• Spiritual Connectedness: Identify a source of inspiration that is bigger than you.
• Energy Balance: Balance calories in/calories out, and reduce your carbon footprint.
• Voluntary Simplicity: Embrace the liberty that comes with wanting and needing less.

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The mental health toolbox is a new and unique feature that MHF has put together to assist the entire mental health community (practitioners, patients, friends, relatives, etc.) in keeping up with the rapid changes in mental health

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mh4all is awareness campaign under The MINDS Foundation that aims to bring light to the emerging global public health concern of mental health. This platform is a central location for anyone involved in the global mental health sector to contribute personal narratives, video journals, guest blog posts, photos, and any other form of digital media that contributes to raising awareness around the topic of mental health.

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MINDS Leadership Development Program (MLDP) is designed to introduce enthusiastic students, who are interested in helping those in need, to the non-profit world and the responsibilities associated with it. Students who participate in this program can fast track their way to associate positions at MINDS. The program consists of two stages.

1. Intern: provide general administrative support to MINDS associates (word processing, photocopying, filing, faxing, processing incoming mail), retrieving and responding to requests for information, assisting with research and translation and maintaining extensive files, contact lists, and databases
2. Associate: provide input and ideas for future projects, preparing, formatting and distributing documents such as press releases, reports, tables, charts, briefing papers, op-eds, publications and web content, outreach to other nonprofits and aid organizations and drafting and editing correspondence and other documents

Contact Person / Email
mldp@mindsfoundation.org

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MINDS programs are based upon extensive research and data collection. A needs assessment is at the foundation of our program design process. Continuing monitoring and evaluation of our programs once they are implemented is essential to improving and providing communities what they truly need.

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The MINDS Foundation Fellowship Program is a program for students and professionals who parparticipate daily with local psychiatrists, local neurologists, local nurses, and local social workers to help diminish the stigma towards mental illness, assist with educational sessions, and educate patients and families in better treatment methods and resource availability. Many previous MINDS Fellows have published their work in international academic journals, media outlets, and even completed dissertation work.

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SAMH Creative MINDSET Hub brings mental wellness to all through meaningful arts experiences. A team of art therapists and facilitators use art, music and dance as a form of therapy for participants to explore and express their feelings. Their activities include art making sessions, counselling and art therapies. Many of our activities are open to the public to encourage awareness and reduce stigma for persons with mental illness. SAMH offer services, including counselling, art therapy and occupational therapy, that are integrated with expressive arts to helps individual relieve stress and improve their quality of life.

• Arts Skills: learn new skills and express your feelings through the visual arts, music and dance including open group sessions, closed group sessions and individual sessions for public, persons-in-recovery and caregivers​.
• Counselling and Art Therapy​: counsellors and professional art therapists are at hand to guide you through difficult life events and recovery from mental illness including individual therapy and group therapy for youths, adults and seniors.
• Occupational Therapy: experiential activities that can help you overcome the effects of mental illness and function better in daily life. These can range from arts and craft, to sensory art and self-awareness. Occupational therapists also conduct talks that teach adaptive skills on managing time, stress, finances and other aspects of daily life including individual therapy and group therapy for public and persons-in-recovery.
• External Talks and Workshops: talks and experiential workshop that share the holistic benefits of expressive arts and sports on mental health. Participants can learn how to de-stress and care for their mental health, enabling them to be more productive at work and leisure for students and working adults

Address
Tampines Hub, 1 Tampines Walk, South Plaza, Lobby J, #03-06 528523

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
creativemindsethub@samhealth.org.sg

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Creative SAY (Sports, Arts and Youths) provide youth with have a SAY! in their lives. As physical health and mental health are closely linked, this centre offers sports, outdoor and art activities to help spark conversations, promote general well-being, cultivate resilience, and prevent the onset of mental illness. They engage youths and their families through outreach and value-driven activities. Many of their activities are open to the public to encourage awareness and reduce stigma for persons with mental illness.

Address
Blk 317, Woodlands Street 31, #01-196, 730317

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
creativesay@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6362 4845

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SAMH Insight Centre is SAMH's counselling services for persons with psychiatric, psychological and emotional needs, as well as their families. Counselling is conducted through face-to-face sessions and through telephone helpline. They aim to provide clients with the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings, gain clarity on their issues and receive support, while working to improve their situation. At the SAMH Insight Centre, they provide these services in support of the community:

• Individual Counselling​ for individuals coping with personal, social, work, stress and other mental health-related issues
• Marital and Family Counselling​ for couples and families coping with mental health-related issues
• Toll-Free Counselling Helpline 1800-283-7019 for anyone who needs help or information on mental health-related issues

Address
Blk 69, Lorong 4 Toa Payoh, #01-365, 310069

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
counselling@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6283 1576

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MINDSET Learning Hub is Singapore’s first and only job training and placement centre that provides Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) training to persons in recovery. At MLH, they create a conducive environment that supports learning needs. Their multidisciplinary team work with people on an individualised learning and employment plan. The plan is customised to your learning speed, and helps you set realistic goals in your journey of learning and employment. With support from our industry partners, This are also able to provide training that simulates actual work environments to gain practical workplace skills leading up to job placement. At MLH, they support the vocational needs of persons in recovery through:

• WSQ training
• Pre-vocational and on-the-job training
• Job placement and employment opportunities
• Mental wellness management and recovery programmes

Address
Blk 257, Jurong East Street 24, #01-405, 600257

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
mindsetLH@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6665 9220

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Oasis Day Centre provides psychosocial rehabilitation and training for persons with mental illness. They help beneficiaries to realise their potential and improve the management of their conditions, so that they can better reintegrate into the community. Their beneficiaries are supported in their recovery and reintegration journey through:

• Individualised case management​
• Counselling​
• Exercise programmes​
• Family intervention and home visits​
• Psychoeducation​
• Skills and vocational training
• Socio-recreational activities

Address
Blk 139, Potong Pasir Avenue 3, #01-132, 350139

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
oasis@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6282 6332

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The SAMH Activity Hub provides psychosocial rehabilitative programmes to assist residents in their recovery from mental illness and to reintegrating them into the community. Activity Hub’s services include occupational therapy, social work, psychological services and vocational placements. SAMH manages the Activity Hub @ Pelangi Village and conducts psychosocial rehabilitative programmes for residents. Residents are assisted in their recovery and reintegration into the community through:

• Art Therapy: therapeutic rehabilitation to residents through activities such as drawing, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking and painting. Art therapy intervention is also provided for residents to express themselves and resolve issues through the creative processes.
• Music Therapy: music helps residents open up and communicate their deep feelings and emotions. Through it, residents can develop relationships based on trust with therapists. It also enables residents to find emotional support, build bonds with others and develop a sense of community.
• Occupational Therapy: help residents achieve a better quality of life through intensive occupational therapy. Their efforts focus on three components of occupational performance. These are the Activities of Daily Living (ADL), leisure and vocational engagement.
• Psychological Services: help residents relieve psychological distress and dysfunction through quality psychological services. Conducted by mental health professionals, these sessions may consist of individualised assessments and interventions, psychoeducation, cognitive training, anger management and social skills training. They also provide treatment that is informed by the findings of the assessments. Treatment is conducted through individual therapy or group therapy at the Activity Hub or via outreach.
• Social Work: manage the needs and condition of each resident through individualised case management. Job and social assessments, personal skills training sessions and support groups are also conducted to create an engaging rehabilitative environment for residents. Their aim is to help residents maximise their potential, self-esteem and quality of life.
• Vocational Services facilitate the reintegration of residents by providing training and competitive employment opportunities. Residents are aided in the development of their skills, confidence, financial stability and independence. Our vocational services include:

1. Resident Earning Scheme
2. Sheltered Workshop
3. Vocational Placement Service

Address
8 Buangkok Green, 539752

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
ah@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6315 6778

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SAMH Community Education & Engagement aims to increase awareness about mental health issues to promote good mental well-being and reduce the social stigma surrounding mental illness. This is achieved through a concerted effort across various outreach platforms such as:

• Public forums
• Talks
• Trainings and
• Workshops

Contact Person / Email
comed@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6255 3222

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SAMH Group Homes is an independent living facility for people with mental health conditions who have a desire to be gainfully employed, develop communal living and independent living skills, as well as strengthen their ability to integrate into the community. At SAMH Group Homes, SAMH provide residents opportunities to experience community integration in the heartlands. This is achieved through a holistic provision of vocational and psychosocial rehabilitation services.

• Live-In Rehabilitation

• Round-the-clock care and support

• Social and recreational activities

• Individualised Care Plans

• Case management and counselling

• Illness management

• Employment Support

• Skills training

• Job placement and coaching

• Facilities

   

Address
Blk 239, Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, #01-165, 650239

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
grouphomes@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6564 7003

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The SAMH Mobile Support Team aims to bring mental health services to the community. Their beneficiaries include persons with mental health conditions and their caregivers, whom they reach out through home visits and out-of-centre intervention sessions. The Mobile Support Team focuses on providing these community-based services:

• Needs assessments of beneficiaries and caregivers​
• Individualised intervention plans, case management and monitoring of beneficiaries in the community, in close collaboration with GPs or hospitals for further assessment, treatment and intervention.
• Home visits to assess and follow up on beneficiaries and caregivers
• Case management, care coordination and service linkages for beneficiaries to appropriate services based on their needs
• Training and outreach to increase public awareness and understanding of mental disorders
• Assessment Tools for Beneficiaries and Caregivers

Contact Person / Email
samhmobile@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 8511 2678

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YouthReach is a psychosocial rehabilitation programme for youths with mental health conditions. They partner youths and their families to empower the youths to move out of their comfort zones to achieve mutually agreed goals in a safe, caring and inclusive community. At YouthReach, theirr beneficiaries are supported in their recovery and personal goals through:

• Intensive Casework
• Individual case management​
• Counselling​
• Family psychoeducation programme​
• Educational and Vocational Support
• Expressive therapies
• Psychosocial Support
• Mentorship programme​
• Group outings and activities

Address
Social Service Hub @ Tiong Bahru, 298 Tiong Bahru Road, #10-06, Central Plaza, 168730

Country
Singapore

Contact Person / Email
youthreach@samhealth.org.sg

Call +65 6593 6424

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The NSW Mentally Healthy Workplaces Strategy is the NSW Government’s long-term plan for mentally healthy workplaces and represents the single-biggest investment in workplace mental health in the nation’s history. 

Country
Australia

Call 2) 9339 6008

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