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You cannot be serious: a guide to involving volunteers with mental health problems
- Author:
- CLARK Sherry
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Volunteering
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide provides support and advice for people committed to making their organisations more socially inclusive. Based on a two year project investigating some of the challenges facing people with mental health problems in accessing volunteering opportunities.
Trying harder
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 14.2.91, 1991, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Talks to Martin Eede, the new Director of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, about his views on mental health services in the move to community care.
Directory of black and ethnic community mental health services in London: voluntary sector
- Author:
- WARD Laurence
- Publisher:
- MIND South East. Black and Ethnic Minority Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery in action project report
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery in Action was a two-year service improvement project developed by the Strategic Network for Mental Health, an alliance of four voluntary sector mental health provider organisations: Advance, Mind in Birmingham, Second Step and Sussex Oakleaf. The project explored ways of embedding recovery in mental health services. The key elements were to: develop a recovery training programme; produce a set of service user recovery outcomes; produce an outcomes measurement tool for recovery; produce a recovery checklist for organisations. Seven sites were identified to pilot new ways of recovery orientated working. The report summarises the key findings from the pilot projects and results of a formal evaluation exercise. Following a 'what we have learned section', the report concludes with recommendations for policy makers, commissioners, organisations, service delivery and a message to service users. The appendix includes the recovery checklist for organisations.
Lost in transition
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 88, May 2007, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Statutory mental health services notoriously cause problems for young people at the transitional age. This article looks at how one voluntary agency offers services to bridge that gap. Barnardo's Cymru Caterpillar project in Cardiff is able to support people aged from 12 to 21 with severe mental health problems.
Pathways to policy - developing inclusive mental health policy in Eastern Europe
- Authors:
- BUREAU Jonathan, SHEARS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(4), December 2006, pp.32-35.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The Hamlet Trust, a UK-based charity, has been working to develop a network of grassroots user-led organisations in central and eastern Europe and central Asia since the early 1990s. The Hamlet Trust's Pathways to Policy programme, launched in 2002, has been helping to improve mental health policies and outcomes for service users by inclusive means, with service users beginning to feel they can influence the policy environment. This article looks at the work of the Hamlet Trust, and uses the case study of Albania to illustrate how the Pathways to Policy programme is getting results.
The Wokingham and West Berkshire Mind Crisis House
- Author:
- JENKINSON Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 9(1), March 2004, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Wokingham and West Berkshire Mind was formed in 1988 by a group of mental health service users and informal carers. They sought affiliation to MIND and continued to operate as a user-run organsiation. This article looks at the Workingham Mind crisis house project, which provided a drop in centre and accommodation for people with mental health problems. The centre also banned professionals. Describes the conflict that arose between the Mind crisis house and the local authority social services department.
Different voices, single harmony
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 37, 4.6.03, 2003, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health's new survey of user groups which aims to build the cornerstone of a formidable national voice for users of mental health services.
Down but not out
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(9), May 1999, pp.294-295.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Describes the Revolving Doors project which aims to pick up at point of arrest and provide a support service to people on the margins of the mental health and criminal justice systems. The link workers provide a link between the local police station and health, social services, housing and other welfare agencies. They take referrals directly from the police station for anyone arrested whom the police believe to have some kind of mental health problem.
The Edinvar intensive mental health service
- Authors:
- HUTCHEON Sarah, WREN Lucy, MARTIN Claudia
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(3), September 1998, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the work of Edinvar's South Edinburgh intensive mental health service. It provides a 24-hour, flexible and intensive domiciliary support service which is tailored to the differing needs of individuals who experience serious mental health problems.