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The garden project started 18 months ago. Once waist-high in weeds, the garden is now an attractive and productive space; providing opportunities for people to engage in something meaningful, learn new skills, and connect with nature and with each other.The garden project is managed by the Independence Trust. People who use 2gether services can be referred into the project, and people can also self-refer directly to the Independence Trust.
The Myplace project run by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Wildlife Trust encourages young people aged 13 – 24 years old to explore the environment by offering opportunities to participate in eco-therapy based activities where they can develop new skills, increase their self-esteem, build resilience and improve their own self-confidence.
CPFT specialist clinical psychologist Dr Kate Nurser has conducted the first UK research on how storytelling can help the recovery of people who have experienced mental health challenges.
Liesbeth Tip on a qualitative study of Norfolk-based community singing project Sing Your Heart Out, aimed at people with mental illness & the general public
The service, commissioned by Warrington Borough Council, gives service users the opportunity to take part in the Creative Remedies programme, an art for health scheme, which runs various community groups aiming to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
Activities in the programme include performing arts, music, digital photography and film production. Community engagement officer, Pete Regan, supported members to form the band while working with them in the Creative Remedies sessions and now plays bass as part of the group.
Langley Green Hospital has installed raised beds in each of the ward gardens to create allotments to help patients with their recovery, following a donation from Crawley Rotary Club.
Langley Green Hospital supports people with mental health issues such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression and severe anxiety.
People in south Essex are benefitting from Open Arts classes up to six months after attending courses according to a recent research by Anglia Ruskin University.
The research published in the International Journal of Mental Health Promotion found positive benefits to health and wellbeing of those who attended the art classes up to three and six months later.
Open Arts is a community arts project run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) for people who have had experience of mental illness or their carers. It offers a 12 week course on various creative arts ranging from drawing, painting, print-making, 3D art and much more.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
The forensic service and forensic recovery college are provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Within low secure services Activity Coordinator Leah Brown has been successfully delivering mosaic sessions for a group of service users.
The evaluation of the pilot, carried out by Sheffield Hallam University’s Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), found that it had helped increase the number of discharges from mental health services and improved social and emotional well-being of the service users.
156 service users were referred to the pilot, with 136 (87 per cent) taking up one of the voluntary and community services available, such as sports groups, craft classes, cookery courses, swimming, learning programmes, employment skills, yoga, and therapeutic art groups.