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Develop (The Developing Valued Lifestyles Partnership) is an informal consortium of local organisations, mental health service providers, people with mental health problems and their families and associates all working together to promote social inclusion for people with mental health problems in the London Borough of Bromley.

Develop is organised into a number of collaborative networks and inclusive practice forums. The structure of this website follows this approach. The Develop website launched in 2008. If this is your first visit please have a look around the various life domain based pages (along the top menu bar) and the socially inclusive practice pages (along the side menu bar) to see the kinds of things the site can offer you. Whilst you are having a look around please take the time to join Develop by registering for your user name and password.

We are constantly updating the site so please come around on a regular basis.

The vast majority of documents on the Develop website are available to download as PDF files, which require Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader on your system, please click the button to visit Adobe''s download section:

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If you wish to share news, interesting website details or any other information through the Develop website, you can download the following forms (as a Word document) to submit, subject to approval. The forms will give you a good guide to what to include but if you are a regular user of the site or experienced in such matters just send us what you want listed and we will do the rest!

If you wish to offer some of your precious time to find out about and gather information relevant to users of this website please let us know you would like to become a develop scout or reporter at info@developbromley.com

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Shift aims to improve the media portrayal of mental illness

4th Feb 2010

A six-month research project into TV representations of mental illness, commissioned by Shift, is underway. The findings will be used to engage TV producers and script-writers in a dialogue around how they represent mental illness. They will be presented at a BBC event attended by leading TV figures this autumn, inspiring the industry to portray people with mental health problems in an innovative, fresh and creatively exciting new way, challenging tired, old stereotypes.

Shift are also lobbying the Press Complaints Commission to ban the offensive term 'schizo' in stories about people with schizophrenia, and are planning to hold a seminar for national newspapers in conjunction with the PCC about media reporting of mental illness. Shift spoke to hundreds of journalists at the NUJ conference and the Society of Editors conference, providing them with our guidance on reporting mental illness.

To find out more about What's the Story, visit: www.shift.org.uk/mediahandbook

Shift are continuing to deliver their popular workshops on reporting mental illness and suicide to trainee journalists at postgraduate and vocational journalism colleges and universities.

The charity Ok2b has been commissioned by Shift to run a web-based 'Stigma Watch' system called Words Matter, which will enable people to praise and complain about media coverage. It will be marketed to service users and relevant mental health related organisations and will be up and running later this year.

Later this year, Shift will be publishing a package of research about the media which will include 'Mind over Matter III', their annual analysis of media coverage. This report will analyse coverage from March and October 2008. It will be compared against reports from the previous three years to see if there have been any improvements. The research will also include the findings of focus groups, held to examine the role of the media in the shaping public fears of people with mental health problems, as well as a survey of how well newspaper readers think their paper covers mental health. It will also include the findings of research into how the mental health of Black and Minority Ethnic groups are reported in Black and Minority Ethnic and mainstream press.

www.shift.org.uk

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Send your images for the Big Care Debate

4th Feb 2010

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As part of the continuing Big Care Debate on the reform of the care and support system, the Big Care Debate team are inviting everyone to share their images of Care and Support.

They are putting together a gallery of images that illustrate, and raise awareness of, the breadth of care and support issues and what they mean to people in England. They will display the pictures on the Care and Support website. The best pictures will be considered for inclusion in the forthcoming care and support White Paper.

Please send any images that you think best illustrate how care and support touches an individual's life, and provide a short description (up to 50 words) telling the story of the image. It can be someone you have a personal connection with, eg a family member or someone you, or your organisation, have a working relationship with. If your organisation has its own network of organisations or individuals, please pass this request on to them.

You can upload your pictures directly onto the website via the easy-to-use form, adding a title and description at www.careandsupport.direct.gov.uk

Or, if you prefer, you can email your photo and text to careandsupport@dh.gsi.gov.uk

You can also post a print and they will scan and upload it. Please send it to:

Ben Scott
Images of Care and Support
Room 149, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NS

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Government paper "Realising Ambitions" available for download

26th Jan 2010

On 7 December 2009 Rachel Perkins, Paul Farmer and Paul Litchfield delivered their independent report on mental health and employment “Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition” to the Department for Work and Pensions.

You can download the report from our Work and Employment/Evidence and Policy pages here.

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