Are you 15 – 19 and living within the Greater Manchester area?
Are you interested in dance, music, spoken word and film making?
Do you have some time over August to commit to a brand-new project that focusses on you?
Do you have something to say about young people’s mental health?
The GM VCSE Mental Health Leadership Group is currently recruiting seven new group members – 5 locality leads for Bolton, Manchester, Rochdale, Tameside and Glossop and Trafford, and 2 systems leads, one for Equalities and one for Systems Change.
Independent Mental Health Network (IMHN) are currently collating a directory of all mental health peer support groups in Greater Manchester, with the hope it makes it clearer for potential service users to find out what is out there that may benefit them, and how to access these services, and so that they can signpost service users.
Kooth Plc provides digital mental health services. Kooth are inviting men between the ages of 26 - 45 years old from ethnic minority backgrounds to share their insights and experiences of mental health support.
Kooth want to understand how they could improve and develop their service for men from diverse ethnic minority backgrounds between the ages of 26-45 years.
The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership is pleased to be able to offer a funded development opportunity for 10 Perinatal and Parent-Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Champions from VCSE groups across the city-region.
“... mindfulness is a skill that has made such a huge difference in both my emotions and perspectives”
With so many people struggling at the current time due to social distancing and isolation perhaps mindfulness could help you?
Mindfulness meditation has been shown in many studies to be useful for helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and enhance their wellbeing.
The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership are leading a programme to improve mental health support and services for families in pregnancy and the first two years of a child’s life.
Organisations across Greater Manchester are being encouraged to come together to submit bids for local funding after the region secured £500,000 government funding for green social prescribing to improve the region’s mental health.
Green social prescribing connects people with nature-based activities such as walking and cycling, community gardening and food-growing projects, as well as tasks such as tree planting.
Seed funding grants are available for UK based charities and other not-for-profit groups and organisations to trial new and innovative ways to support people in the UK who are suffering with poor mental health. The grants can be used to trial a new service, create an asset, a technology, a performance, fund research, or otherwise experiment in any way that supports mental health.
Manchester City Council is launching a Covid-19 Impact Fund on 6 January 2021. £300,000 will be available for voluntary sector activity to support mental health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation in Manchester.