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 The
Loss Group, the Leeds organisation of survivors of suicide
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The need to develop a comprehensive Suicide Bereavement Prevention
Policy
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High
Royds Hospital - End of an era
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Just before the final closure of High Royd
Hospital, before the contractors moved in
to convert the place into private housing
there was a week of events ensuring tha
the end of over 100 years of hospital car
on this site did not go unmarked.
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An
inspirational day out
at the farm?
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What were 30 of us doing, along with the
ducks, geese, an orphan lamb and kids of
both varieties, one sunny day, just before the
Spring Equinox?
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‘Improving
the Delivery of Mental Health Services to the Culturally Diverse
Communities in Leeds.’
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Leeds Mind officially launched a national
first minimum standards document to celebrate World Mental Health
Day on the 10th October 2002.
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All
of Us: a mental health promotion strategy for Leeds THE LAUNCH.....!
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All of Us: a mental health promotion
strategy for Leeds was launched on 26th September 2002 to coincide
with World Mental Health Day. The aim of the launch was to celebrate
innovative work already underway in the field of mental health promotion
and to learn about the new plan of action for the next three years.
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Issues
for a mental health service
user attempting to return to work
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The issues relating to this fall into
two main areas; internal factors experienced by the service user
and the external factors relating to the policies and practices
of the employing body.
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A
Mentally Health Promoting Primary Care Service
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Are you sitting comfortably? Good,
then I’ll begin…..
Once upon a time Mr Bee came to his primary care centre. A notice
said that patients could choose to see a variety of people including
a nurse practitioner, the CAB worker, a GP or the gardener. Mr Bee
asked for an appointment. The receptionist listened carefully and,
while explaining the appointment system and availability also managed
to respectfully clarify that Mr Bee was in distress and would value
being seen quickly.
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West
Leeds Mental Health Forum
Mental Health Promotion Poster Competition
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The idea of holding a ‘competition’
to design Mental Health Promotion posters comes from the ‘MIND
OUT for mental health’ campaign booklet, Stop the Stigma.
We got copies of this booklet in mid 2001, and used ideas from it
as the basis for the Forum’s World Mental Health Day celebration
event at Stockshill Day Centre, on 10th October 2001.
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Four Questions
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What excites you?
What is your dream?
What one thing do you want people to understand?
What needs to change?
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A Story: There was a Nobel Prize winner who was being interviewed
after getting his prize. The interviewer asked if he could say what
it was about his childhood that he could identify as contributing
to his adult success. The Nobel Prize winner thought for a moment
and then said “When I was at school children would go home
at the end of the day and they would be asked what they had learnt
in school that day”.
My mother asked me “What good questions did you ask today”.
This is about the importance of asking the right questions. So in
this issue we asked a range of people the same four questions. You
can read how different people in mental health in Leeds responded
to these questions.
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Experiences of a volunteer...
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It is a strange sensation, knowing that you are about, with what
suddenly seems like ridiculously minimal training, to enter into
a conversation with someone who is experiencing a mental health
crisis....
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