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Awareness Raising
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Supporting Service Users
The Primary Care Trust for Bromley offers free Mental Health Awareness Training for organisations. This is tailored to your organisation's requirements. Topics covered include insight into what mental health is, how to maintain your own good mental health, how organisation's can promote mental well-being among their staff, and the effect of, and how to manage, stress in the workplace. 
Contact: Peter Grand
Email: petergrand@bromleypct.nhs.uk
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One in four British adults will experience at least one diagnosable mental health problem in any one year.
The intention of this programme is to promote awareness of mental health issues amongst the general public, and to train non-professionals to recognise those affected by mental health.
Tel: 01323 648836
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Led and supported by employers, the MINDFUL EMPLOYER® initiative is aimed at increasing awareness of mental health at work and providing support for businesses in recruiting and retaining staff.
Employers signed up to Mindful Employer as Charter Signatories in Bromley:
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (Substance Misuse services only).
Bromley Mind.
Community Options.
Rethink (Advocacy services for service users).
Nationwide Building Society.
Close to Bromley:
Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication.
Croydon Colleges
Greenwich Community College.
Kent County Council.
Kent Fire & Rescue Service.
Develop offer support services to Mindful Employer in Bromley
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Moving People is a groundbreaking and diverse programme of national and local activity, led by four mental health organisations - Mental Health Media, Mind, Rethink, and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Moving People has been modelled on similar programmes that have worked elsewhere in the world, and is part of an international movement sharing evidence and best practice. Moving People is based on two years of consultation with people who experience mental health problems. People with direct experience of mental distress will be at the heart of this programme and participate at all levels.
Open Up is a grassroots network of people with experience of mental distress, working together towards a world without mental health discrimination. We bring people together through networking, mentoring and training activities to share their ideas, resources and experiences.
Open Up is now part of Mind.
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Works in a number of areas to reduce and remove the stigma and discrimination directed towards people with experience of mental health problems. Website contains many resources available to download and watch.
Tel: 0845 223 5447
Email: shift@nmhdu.org.uk
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Supporting Service Development
Stand to Reason is a service-user led organisation that intends to work with and for people with mental ill health in the way that Stonewall has for gay people: raising the profile, fighting prejudice, establishing rights and achieving equality.
Stand to Reason will be research-led and will measure the impact of its interventions in tackling discrimination and stigma.
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Community Channel makes you think again about the world around you, and inspires you to take action on the causes and issues that matter to you.
Broadcasting original shows, the best of terrestrial TV and showcasing the work of new directors and community programme makers, Community Channel is the place for real-life stories.
Community Channel was launched in September 2000 as a three hour a day TV channel, mainly showing charity advertisements and selling charity merchandise.
Community Channel is broadcast 24 hours a day, every day, on Sky 539, Virgin TV 233. The Channel is also on Freeview 87 from 6am to 9am, everyday.
Daybreak training was established to help raise awareness of a range of mental health issues.
They seek to provide ordinary people with greater understanding and confidence when faced with someone experiencing mental distress.
Their courses enable them to offer immediate support until professional help can be obtained.
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From New Zealand, Like Minds, Like Mine is a public health funded project to reduce the stigma of mental illness and the discrimination that people with experience of mental illness face everyday in the community.
The website provides information and resources on the project, looks at who is involved and how they can contribute to creating a nation that values and includes people with mental illness.
Liverpool Mental Health Awareness (LMHA) has been working to promote positive awareness of mental health in Liverpool since 1992.
LMHA works with other community groups in the region to promote the message that mental health is about emotional and psychological well-being, and so concerns us all.
LHMA actively promote good practice in mental health promotion throughout Liverpool.
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Improving access to housing services
Courses run by Shelter, aiming to attain a better quality of life for people suffering from mental health problems, and are open to managers, front-line staff and service users across local authorities, housing associations, and health and social care.
Training is practical and accessible. Delegates work on case studies, explore how the law can be used, and discuss good practice issues.
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NMHAC, a nationwide nonpartisan public education campaign, was launched as part of the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health organized by Tipper Gore.
It has a two-pronged goal: encourage people to identify, discuss, and seek help for mental health problems; and create a more accepting environment for them to do so.
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The aim of the campaign is to actively engage with the local and national media and to positively promote mental health awareness.
It supports and praises positive coverage of mental health issues and encourages people to voice their opinion when there is negative coverage.
Contact: Russell Cartwright
Tel: 01322 625754
Email: writeway@oxleas.nhs.uk
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Magellan has partnered with national experts in behavioral health recovery and resiliency to offer e-courses for providers, consumers, family members and other stakeholders. These trainings are free of charge and were developed in collaboration with Recovery Innovation, Child Family Support Services, the Family Involvement Center, and consumers and family members.
Each e-course opens in a separate window where you will be asked to complete a very brief demographic survey before the course begins. Navigating the course is easy through use of navigation "buttons" and left-menu headings. After viewing a course, you will be asked to answer a brief set of post-course questions.
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The 'see me' campaign was launched in October 2002 to challenge stigma and discrimination around mental ill-health in Scotland. The campaign is run by an alliance of five Scottish mental health organisations: Highland Users Group (HUG); National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland) ; Penumbra ; the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Scottish Division) and the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
The campaign combines an award-winning national publicity programme with local and national anti-stigma action developed in partnership with like-minded groups and individuals across all sectors of Scottish life. Individuals who have experienced stigma are involved in many aspects of the campaign, and includes those prepared to talk to the media about the impact stigma has had on their lives.
Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems.
It is a partnership of organisations that has come together to combat the stigma and discrimination that exists around mental health.
Together supports around 3,500 people through 100 different mental health services across the country.
They provide their mental health services by working in partnership with many other organisations, including housing associations, health trusts, local authorities, criminal-justice agencies and private- and other voluntary-sector bodies.
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