Awareness Raising

Welcome to the Social Inclusion and Mental Health Awareness Raising section of the Develop website. These pages are maintained by our Awareness Raising Forum which meets quarterly to review and develop our local programme of education, training and consultancy for local organisations interested in being welcoming and supportive to people with mental health problems as their customers, tenants, neighbours, members, parishioners or fellow worshippers, volunteers, colleagues or employees.

The Forum meets regularly to evaluate whatever awareness training has been taking place and to plan for and to take up new pieces work identified by Develop's Life Domain Networks. The organisations in Bromley that have participated recently in social inclusion and mental health awareness training are:

Bromley Adult Education College, Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, Bromley Libraries, Bromley MyTime, Broomleigh Housing Association, Kelsey Housing Association, Liberata (Housing Benefits), Bromley Metropolitan Police Force and Orpington College.

In addition to social inclusion and mental health awareness training, the Forum has strong links with the Mental Health Promotion Department of Bromley PCT who run an even more extensive programme of training and events around the promotion of good mental health itself.

Training is not the only way we are raising awareness. Through local projects to support people back into work and education and through our job retention pilot, many local activities are geared towards identifying and meeting the needs of local organisations to support people with mental health difficulties who live, work and play locally.

If you would like further information please browse the pages of this section or contact the Forum Chairperson by emailing mhaforum@developbromley.com.

As our work in this area is developing apace there will be more detail appearing on this page over the coming months, why not bookmark it now?