Positive Mental Health Network Newsletter
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c[email protected] Page 1 of 14 Message to PMHN members Dear PMHN members, You may be pleased to hear that some big changes are coming to the PMHN newsletter. We hope the new style we have planned for you will make navigating the newsletter and all its fantastic information even easier. Over the last few years, the network has grown to include over 170 members, as you can imagine that means we get an awful lot of submissions. They can range from leaflets/flyers, articles, funding opportunities, events, workshops, the list goes on and on and we appreciate every single one! Currently the Newsletter is compiled by Cora Easton (Spectrum People) and Tracy Leach (Public Health) and the workload as you can imagine is immense. We have enlisted the help of Dee Hawkins (Spectrum People) to help us tackle these issues and improve the newsletter. To help with this we plan on introducing submission guidelines, a set of requirements that all submissions will need to adhere too, exceptions can be made at the discretion of the editor. We are currently working on these guidelines and a survey so we can enlist your help to know if we are taking things in the right direction. So please do keep an eye out for those in the near future. 5 th October 2021 Edition 74 Positive Mental Health Network Newsletter This week’s edition includes: • Crafting 4 Good • Mental Health Crisis Learning Resources • Partnership Network Meetings • Children and Young People Funding • Bereavement & Loss • Appletree Webtacular • Colour ‘n’ Chat • Turning Point workshop at Appletree • Stoptober • Take 5 • Cycle for Health • Smoking and Health Webinar • Schwartz Rounds
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Message to PMHN members
Dear PMHN members,
You may be pleased to hear that some big changes are coming to the
PMHN newsletter.
We hope the new style we have planned for you will make navigating
the newsletter and all its fantastic information even easier.
Over the last few years, the network has grown to include over 170
members, as you can imagine that means we get an awful lot of
submissions.
They can range from leaflets/flyers, articles, funding opportunities,
events, workshops, the list goes on and on and we appreciate every
single one!
Currently the Newsletter is compiled by Cora Easton (Spectrum
People) and Tracy Leach (Public Health) and the workload as you can
imagine is immense.
We have enlisted the help of Dee Hawkins (Spectrum People) to help
us tackle these issues and improve the newsletter.
To help with this we plan on introducing submission guidelines, a set
of requirements that all submissions will need to adhere too,
exceptions can be made at the discretion of the editor.
We are currently working on these guidelines and a survey so we can
enlist your help to know if we are taking things in the right direction. So
please do keep an eye out for those in the near future.
5th October 2021 Edition 74
Positive Mental Health
Network Newsletter
This week’s edition
includes:
• Crafting 4 Good
• Mental Health Crisis
Learning Resources
• Partnership Network
Meetings
• Children and Young
People Funding
• Bereavement & Loss
• Appletree Webtacular
• Colour ‘n’ Chat
• Turning Point
workshop at
Appletree
• Stoptober
• Take 5
• Cycle for Health
• Smoking and Health
Webinar
• Schwartz Rounds
•
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If you have any suggestions or comments you would like to share in the meantime please send
them to [email protected].
Next Newsletter
Newsletters will be every two weeks. The next newsletter will be on the 19th October 2021. Please
send articles to: [email protected]
Impact of changes in local authority support during Covid-19 on carers (aged
70+) supporting partners living with dementia
During the pandemic, many local authorities changed the way that they assessed and provided
support services, such as day centres, assistance with care at home, and respite care. We are keen
to understand how these changes may have impacted upon people living with dementia and their
partners. Taking part involves a telephone conversation with a researcher that will last approximately
one hour, on a date and time that is convenient for you. It is also possible to do several shorter
conversations if you prefer. Participation is voluntary but we can offer £20 to thank participants for
their time, together with £20 towards the cost of any respite care.
If you would like any additional information, have any questions, or would like to take part, please
don’t hesitate to contact [email protected]. Dr Jayne Astbury Research Associate,
The Justice Hub, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, 188 Waterloo Place,
Oxford Road, M13 9PL.
Mental health crisis learning resources
Health Education England (HEE) and Healthy Teen Minds have launched a suite of mental health
crisis learning resources designed for mental health staff, individuals working in health and social
care, school staff and students who may encounter young people in crisis. These resources have
been designed in conjunction with young people, allowing you to hear directly from them about what
helps in a moment of crisis. The tools aim to build individual’s confidence to have effective
conversations and provide personalised support to a young person in a mental crisis.
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Safe Space
This service is open four evenings
a week (Thursday-Monday) and
the referral lines open from 6pm –
midnight. The service is at The Art
House, Drury Lane in Wakefield.
It’s open for social space, phone,
zoom and in person support.
Text or call for a self-referral or to
refer someone at 07776 962 815.
Partnership Network Meetings
We are excited to invite you to the re-launch of our Partnership Network Meetings. These meetings
aim to bring together partners who deliver early support, intervention and prevention services in
each of the Wakefield Families Together cluster areas. Our collaboration will provide opportunities
to network, join up and promote services to children, young people and families and identify gaps in
services that inform future commissioning needs.
I hope that you can join us on one of our planned meetings, which will be taking place virtually in the
hope that future meetings can be held face to face. Please book a place at a meeting in your local
cluster area or a date/time that best suits you:
Monday 11th October
2021
South East & Normanton &
Featherstone Cluster area
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Thursday 14th October
2021
Wakefield Central, North West and
South West Cluster area
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Thursday 21st October
2021
Castleford, Airedale & Pontefract,
Knottingley Cluster area
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Please book onto one of the meetings by emailing [email protected].
This first meeting will enable us all to shape what we want to achieve as a partnership as we start to
move to more localised joined up services.
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Crafting 4 Good
Crafting4Good are wanting to hear from anyone interested in creative workshops through this online
survey: https://forms.gle/mjfcS6QYjfYeoURu8
Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!
Children and Young People Funding
Yorkshire Sport Foundation is pleased
to provide a funding opportunity via The National
Lottery and Sport England to help support the
development of sport and physical activities for
young people. We want every child and young
person to experience the enjoyment and benefits that being regularly active can bring
through opportunities where their needs, expectations and safety come first in both the
design and delivery of activities.
It is important that all the work we invest in demonstrate the needs of young people and provide
them with positive, enjoyable experiences that make it easy for them to become active and develop
more regular activity habits.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation is looking for organisations to provide regular opportunities for inactive
young people aged 5-18 to become active.
The funding amount we have available is for organisations is £500 – £5,000.
Through this investment we want to:
• Tackle inequalities • Work to connect health and wellbeing within our work • Work within local clubs, communities, schools and neighbourhoods • Work to upskill the workforce to provide opportunities for young people
Organisations would need to demonstrate that the activity will meet one or more of the following
criteria:
• Focused on those who are underrepresented in sport • Low socio-economic communities • Females • Young people with a disability • Young LGBT+ people • Young people from ethnically diverse communities
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We recommend that if you have an idea to read our guidance document and get in touch with us
prior to making your application. All applications will be allocated to a member of the Yorkshire Sport
Foundation team so that we can offer support with the design and implementation of your idea.
Apply online here or download an Application Form
For more enquiries please contact [email protected] / 07964 209313
Bereavement & Loss
Please click here for the
survey.
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Liaison & Diversion
The Liaison and Diversion Service are a voluntary organisation who
provide support to vulnerable people who have come into contact with the
criminal justice system. We are based across West Yorkshire; our Wakefield
team are based at Normanton Town Hall and Havertop Police Station.
The Service currently have lots of support time recovery workers working within the service, many of
whom are employed by other services such as Touchstone and The Bridge Project.
We are continuing to work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to keep providing the best support
we can for vulnerable people.
Make sure to have a look at our newly launched website and our Twitter account:
https://wyliaisondiversion.org - @LandD_WY
BHA Wakefield
As of 1st October, BHA Wakefield has officially launched! We will be running HIV Support and
prevention services in partnership with Spectrum across Wakefield. BHA will be offering:
Support for people living with HIV:
· Emotional and practical support
· Counselling
· Information, advice and advocacy; support to express your views and have your say
· Peer support groups and Peer Mentors
· Support for new mums
· Training to support healthy living, learn new skills and meet new people
HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion
· Information, advice and support to improve and maintain good sexual health
· Training and group work to support knowledge, skills, and confidence in using prevention
tools and a safe space to explore feelings and challenges
· Access to condoms, lube and safer sex resources
· HIV testing through regular community-based testing sessions and events-based pop-up
clinics
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· Peer support
· Training, workshops, and courses – a range of activities to support sexual health, safer sex
and confidence in improvement, learn new skills.
Check out our twitter @BHAWakefield and our Facebook page facebook.com/BHAWakefield for
service updates.
If you would like to refer someone living with HIV to our service, please use the online referral
form https://thebha.org.uk/secure-referral/
Schwartz Rounds
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub team is hosting an online event on 20 October to introduce Schwartz Rounds to any and all organisations across the Partnership, including VCSE, care homes, hospices, primary care and providers of support services. Find out more about Schwartz Rounds on our website. Book a free place on Eventbrite here. If you need to find out more, email the Hub on [email protected].
Smoking and Health Webinar
The webinar recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNISwWRwz3g.
Do let us know if you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to
email [email protected].
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