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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?
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.
Send your images for the Big Care Debate
4th Feb 2010
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
BBC Headroom marks World Mental Health Day with national events
7th Oct 2009
To mark World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2009, Headroom are heading to six BBC Big Screen locations, and we're taking with us a series of relaxing activities, a larger than life game, balloons, smiles, and even some celebrities.
Edinburgh - Festival Square
Have fun with karaoke, films, interactive games, comedy, clay modelling, street dance and jive workshops.
Hull - Queen Victoria Square
Join Nikki Grahame (Big Brother) for some karaoke, films, drumming, laughology, salsa workshops, smoothie making, and clay modelling.
Portsmouth - Guildhall Square
Join Esther Rantzen for karaoke, films, games, laughter gym, clay modelling and jive workshops.
Swansea - Castle Square
Join Radio 1's Aled Jones for some films, karaoke, games, clay modelling, stress busting tips, and art activities.
Waltham Forest - Town Square
Have fun with karaoke, films, games, laughter yoga, Bollywood workshops, fruit kebab making and show off your football skills.
Norwich - Chapelfield Plain
Join Trisha Goddard for karaoke, films, space hopper fun, games, Sing Your Heart Out choir, salsa workshops and Tai Chi.
Mind Get Moving
Regent's Park, London
See events listing for details
More information can be found on the Headroom website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/
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