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The 5 Perinatal Peer Support Principles (developed by Mind, the McPin Foundation & the Maternal Mental Health Alliance) are straightforward and include practical, reflective questions to help shape the peer support you offer. Find out more about how to ensure your volunteering programmes meets quality standards in our FREE guide: https://buff.ly/45E8Qtu

🌟 Empower Mental Health Advocacy! 🌟 This Mental Health Awareness Month, let's take action. Here are five key strategies: 1️⃣ Utilize Social Media: Share your story, raise awareness, and combat stigma online. 2️⃣ Harness Storytelling: Break down barriers by sharing personal experiences through blogs, art, and public speaking. 3️⃣ Drive Policy Change: Advocate for legislation prioritizing mental health funding and access to treatment. 4️⃣ Integrate Mental Health Care: Support initiatives that bring mental health services into schools, workplaces, and communities. 5️⃣ Understand Candidate Positions: Research where candidates stand on mental health issues and vote for policies that prioritize mental well-being. Learn more about why each of these is important and what the role of therapy can be in supporting advocacy. https://lnkd.in/gqa_svXC

Like many communities, the health system in greater Bloomington is overburdened, especially when it comes to mental health. The barriers that prevent our community members from accessing the health care they need are too great for simple solutions. At Bloomington Health Foundation, we’re taking a holistic look at these issues and working with local nonprofits, lawmakers, and clinicians to make our solutions more effective. We’re dedicated to empowering our community to tackle these challenges, including increasing access to mental health care. Read our latest blog to learn more about these efforts. https://lnkd.in/ge84Msqx

Delighted to speak at the #Sharingthevision conference on #mentalhealth policy in Ireland today. Lots of the focus on mental health in Ireland is on the importance of early intervention and prevention. Also good to see emphasis on actions across lifecourse in Ireland, with a recognition of need for more to be done on youth mental health. Economic arguments can help support the moral and human case for action; I highlighted some examples of actions that can be taken - early intervention teams for psychosis, early intervention for eating disorders, many different preventive measures across the lifecourse. Important to take a whole of a multi-sectoral approach - examples of this include investment in supported employment and education initiatives, as well as access to independent housing. https://lnkd.in/eVxf8sFF

The National communications charter (the Charter) and supporting resources have been updated and are now available on the Life in Mind portal. Updates to the Charter included consolidation of the guiding principles and ensuring voices of those with lived and living experience remain central. Mr Mark Leopold, Head of Growth and Innovation at Transitioning Well, and Life in Mind Champion who supported redevelopment of the Charter, shared: “It is excellent that this revised Charter has the voice of lived and living experience at its core. It’s a valuable reminder to us all to constantly calibrate our messaging by drawing on the knowledge of those whose lives have been touched by mental health concerns and suicide. This new Charter, through revised Principles 2 and 5, ensures we consider peoples personal experience, along with that of other professionals, when guiding communications about mental health concerns and suicide.” Learn more and access the updated Charter, and supporting tools and resources via: https://lnkd.in/gyfZNXc3

Politicians carry the world on their shoulders and their decisions affect us all, but they’re mere mortals, subject to the same challenges as the rest of us. That’s why we’re spotlighting organizations from around the world that have recognized and are addressing the importance of mental wellbeing in politics for citizens and democracy. Check out our latest list, "Trailblazing Organizations Supporting Political Leaders’ Mental Wellbeing," which acknowledges and thanks 26 organizations helping politicians perform at the peak of their abilities. 👉 https://lnkd.in/egx4psqC P.S. You will also find these organizations in the interventions and resources list included in our Mere Mortals report launching Dec. 6! Register for the launch event: https://lnkd.in/gPN2pP-W

Dr. Rahil Briggs captures the essence of HealthySteps so succinctly here! We can't help babies unless we meet the needs of parents, where they are and when they're ready. Listen to this message and let us know how we can help!

Children’s mental health is an essential component of their overall health and well-being. However, many families are unable to access timely, effective, and culturally responsive mental health care. The good news is that agencies and organizations have many evidence-based policy options to equitably promote children’s mental health — and we’re launching a new webinar series to discuss them. With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our new series Meeting the Challenge: Evidence-Based Policies to Support Children’s Mental Health & Well-Being brings together researchers, federal partners, national leaders, and ChangeLab Solutions staff to consider policy options that promote children’s mental health. Join our first episode, Income & Housing Policies to Support Children’s Mental Health, on Wednesday, February 14, at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern. Our expert panel will discuss evidence-based policies that can strengthen families’ overall economic security, thereby supporting children’s well-being. Register today: https://lnkd.in/g4yCpc-H #ChildrensMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #HealthyHousing

Now More Than Ever is this year's theme for National Reconciliation Week and for Sorry Day this May 26th 2024 now more than ever we need research, policy and practice that pays attention to responding to policy harms and unsafe research practices. To support this, The ALIVE National Centre has launched its Phase 2 Consensus Statements Intermediary Horizons with the Pathways of Families and priorities outlined within. This reflects priorities shared by parents living with mental ill-health and carers, children and family members over 2023 in our Annual Priorities Survey and Public Co-Design as part of our National Co-Designed Roadmap for Mental Health Research Translation. You can read the Pathways of Families priorities and implementation actions here: https://lnkd.in/gXT4CC42 The 2024 Pocket Map shows the evolving priorities of people most impacted over the past three years. Blue icons show shared priorities with those identified previously and Green icons show the priorities from the 2024 Annual Symposium Casting the Net for What Matters and For Whom? A Call to Action to [re]form national mental health and well-being. Casting the Net for What Matters and For Whom is a call to researchers, policy makers and government and service providers for practice to implement RELATIONAL SYSTEMS, SAFE POLICY and HOLISTIC WELL-BEING by working to implement five foundations. Over this week, we will be sharing the Actions to the Call to support of National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation. Healing the ongoing impacts of the past and must centre the priorities of people most impacted. Victoria J Palmer (on Wurundjeri Country) Michelle Banfield Sandra Eades AO Phillip Orcher Hamish Lindop Tammy Potini Matthew Lewis Cath Kaylor-Hughes Jane Gunn Lisa Sweeney Antoni Caserta Lisa Brophy Catherine O'Donnell Catherine Brasier Tim Heffernan Tom Brideson YES Donna Stephens Deborah Howe Caroline Johnson Amanda Neil Jill Bennett Tara Dimopoulos-Bick Caroline Tjung Dana Jazayeri Ken Knight #alwayswasalwayswillbe #bringingthemhomereport #Castingthenet #WhatMatterForWhom #livedexperienceresearch #mentalhealth #holisticwellbeing #researchtranslation

These updated priorities released for 2024 to advance pathways of families in The ALIVE National Centre co-designed Roadmap for Mental Health Research Translation are a next step in ensuring that the National Centre and research members, networks and partners organisations commit to respond to the priorities of people most impacted. For the Centre, this includes working to support community-led models to respond to the ongoing issues of compound trauma within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as part of the pathways of priority populations. Now More Than Ever this has never been so important that research organisations and translational research parties listen to what matters most for people in communities and centre peoples' priorities. As we mark 30 years of inadequate implementation of the Bringing Them Home Report and countless Commissions and Inquiries into Deaths in Custody and inappropriate responses for cultural safety, let's turn the tide on compound trauma toward healing-oriented systems of care. Often research translation adopts a bi-directional approach where researcher-centric priorities dominant and support the narrative that we need more evidence into practice and that some gap exists that needs a solution. In many cases communities hold answers that are simply not known and listened to. I am proud to co-lead an organisation with Michelle Banfield and Sandra Eades AO that works to translate what communities want, and what solutions communities already have back into research, policy and practice. These updated priorities from families suggest a need for system-wide: 🌟 focused preventive efforts in families to provide support with children where parents are living with mental ill-health. 🌟 less punitive measures for families and that means thinking about out of home care, child removals and harmful models that don't reconnect families. 🌟 models of care that look at the whole, the group, the collective and family units where appropriate rather than individuals. 🌟 more lived-experience driven measures of what matters and for whom. The Pocket Map 2024 Edition highlights how the priorities of families connect but differ to evolving priorities of our work. It also shows the connection to our Call to Action for relational systems, safe policy and holistic well-being. On National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week, today, this week and always we will work to implement change that leads to these outcomes. Join us in these Calls for change and to respond to the priorities of people most impacted: Mental Health Australia National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum (NMHCCF) Lived Experience Australia Northern Territory Lived Experience Network LELAN | Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network BEING - Mental Health Consumers Community First Development Children's Ground SNAICC - National Voice for our Children #NRW2024 #CastingtheNet #ResearchTranslation #MentalHealthMatters