Rethink Mental Illness Manchester Group

Mental Health and Wellbeing services are provided by Manchester City Council and the NHS. The Council fund Health & Wellbeing Services and the NHS fund Mental Health Specialist Services. NHS Manchester and Manchester City Council Commissioners are working in partnership to improve the whole system in a project called the Mental Health Improvement Programme. The Consultation is in two parts – Health and Wellbeing to provide services for everyone, which must have clear links through every pathway with Mental Health Specialist Services that relate to the treatment of people with mental illness. The Health and Wellbeing Services proposed model is: One-to-one support to navigate through the network and link into specialist services for those who need it. Training for providers and the public around wellbeing and recovery Provide support for the development of peer support groups and networks Self help promotion An innovation fund for groups wit...

Tuesday February 25 th SEED Seminar and Book Launch ‘“Maps that precede the territory”: Simulacra and the global ‘reality’ of mental health’ China Mills (OPHI), with a Discussion led by Suman Fernando Room B4.3, Ellen Wilkinson Building, 3-4.45pm (with refreshments), School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester.  To ‘make mental health for all a reality’ is the aim of the Movement for Global Mental Health and the World health Organization, as they call to scale up access to psychiatry, and the medications it prescribes, to countries of the global South. This sits alongside an increasing focus within international development on the subjective experiences of, and psychosocial dimensions of, poverty. In this talk I explore how ‘mental illness’ is made a reality in countries of the global South, via a particular focus on India, through the mapping of prevalence of ‘mental illness’ globally, and through the everyday work of non-governmental...

Our guest speaker this month will be Robert Smeath, who is a Partner at Clarke Willmott LLP law firm. He is coming to talk to us about wills and trusts, which can be a tricky area if you have a mental health problem, or a loved one in that position. The meeting will be on Wednesday 12 th February , at Manchester Carers Centre, starting at 6pm for tea and coffee, and ending at 7.45pm. If you are travelling by public transport, Manchester Carers Centre is a two minute walk from the New Islington Metrolink stop (Droylsden Line). Some of us meet at Piccadilly Station by the taxi rank at 5.30 and head up together. Text Lindsey on 07757 082 976 so we know to wait for you. If you are travelling by car, free parking is available on Pollard Street from 6pm.

The new year is suddenly upon us and it's time for another Rethink Manchester Carers in Action this Wednesday 8th January. Apologies for the short notice but it's caught me by surprise after the Christmas break! We'll be meeting at the usual time of 6-7.45pm, with drinks and light snacks provided. Our speaker this week will be Amy Degnan.  Amy recently joined Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust as a Senior Research Assistant and is based at Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, the University of Manchester.  Amy Degnan will talk about a research study she is managing, titled ‘Culturally-adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) for African Caribbeans with schizophrenia and their families: A feasibility study of implementation and acceptability’. The research study aims to develop a family therapy to improve African Caribbean patients and families’ access to evidence-based care. You can find out more about the study here  http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects...