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First Aid for Mental Health

Boost your mental health support skills with Greater Together Manchester’s First Aid: For Mental Health Training Course accredited by training providers NUCO. Gain a deeper understanding of mental health conditions, learn how to initiate conversations, and how to guide the individuals you work with toward professional help.

Elevate Your Mental Health Awareness
Join this intensive 1-day course, designed to enhance your skills around First Aid for mental Health as this course delves deeper into critical aspects of mental health support.

5 November, 2024 - 09:30 to 17:30

St John's House, 155-163 The Rock, Bury, BL9 0NE

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Trauma Awareness: Places and spaces

Discover the path to building stronger, more resilient communities with Greater Together Manchester’s Trauma Awareness: Places and Spaces Level One training. This program is tailored for voluntary and faith sector groups committed to making a positive impact through understanding the impact of trauma of those we work with and wish to support.

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22 October, 2024 - 10:00 to 15:00

St John's House, 155-163 The Rock, Bury, BL9 0NE

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Capacity Building

Announcement: Macc has successfully secured Manchester City Council’s contract to provide infrastructure support to the city's voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector

Macc is delighted to announce that, following an open tender process, we have once again been successful in securing the contract with Manchester City Council to deliver infrastructure support to the city's voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. This work enables us to support charities, community groups (including the community work done by faith organisations), voluntary groups, and social enterprises to be healthy, sustainable, well-run and above all, impactful for our communities.

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Mental Health Medications survey for people with Learning Disabilities

The Medications and My Mental Health project is exploring mental health medications in the lives of people with learning disabilities. The aim of the project is to develop a toolkit to support decision-making for adults with learning disabilities in relation to psychotropic and mental health medication prescribing and usage. More information about the study can be found here: Mental Health Medications in the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities | medsandmymh

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The Future Is Ours Festival and A Prescription for Life Symposium

How a new way of seeing the creative process might be part of the answer to the mental health needs for young people. 4 - 31 May 2024, Manchester.

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Young People

Pathways to CAMHS project – families needed for focus groups

The 10 Healthwatch in Greater Manchester are undertaking a Pathways to CAMHS project which is researching the mental health and wellbeing of young people and their experiences accessing or trying to access services.

Families across Greater Manchester speak about the challenges they experience trying to access CAMHS services for their child / children. As part of Pathways to CAMHS project, Healthwatch are coordinating discussion sessions in a focus group format to capture the experiences of families across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.

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Children and Families

Free workshop open to all Greater Manchester peer support facilitators

Do you facilitate mental health peer support sessions?

Do you have questions about tackling difficult topics and behaviours such as aggression, racism or triggering material? Need some tips on managing your WhatsApp group?

Join Gaddum’s free and informative workshop to help manage risks and safety in peer support, and look after your wellbeing as a peer support facilitator.

The risks and safety in peer support workshop takes place over consecutive Fridays on 10 May and 17 May from 12.30pm -2pm on both days. All sessions are online on Zoom.

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