Mental Health

Greater Manchester’s Month of Hope – Empowering Life-Changing Conversations

This year’s Month of Hope will once again shine a light on suicide prevention by encouraging open, honest dialogue and challenging the stigma that often surrounds suicide and mental health as we launch our 2025 Greater Manchester Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Running annually in Greater Manchester from 10 September (World Suicide Prevention Day) until 10 October (World Mental Health Day), it invites people across Greater Manchester to come together, raise awareness, and support one another through meaningful conversations.

NCVO: Introduction to EDI in charities (2 days)

This course introduces the key principles of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and how to apply them to your organisation.

This training will support senior leaders and trustees to embed EDI in their organisation’s culture, practice and services.

Online

Shape the future of integrated care

Do you want to help develop the future direction of integrated care? Reserve a spot to secure your workshop space.

The NIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Behavioural and Social Sciences is looking at how integrated care delivery in the UK operates to support people experiencing cardiovascular disease risk and mild-to-moderate mental health concerns.

PRU Researchers based at the Centre for Behaviour Change (UCL), University of Bedfordshire and Newcastle University are organising this stakeholder workshop (ethics ref:CEHP2020579).

Online
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Caritas Salford: Disability Inclusion and Accessibility session

Run by our (Caritas Salford) accessibility coordinator Minna, this session will encourage participants to develop their understanding of barriers preventing inclusion and accessibility and will focus on:

  • Language surrounding disability - has it become taboo?
  • Developing an attitude of inclusivity
  • Developing awareness of equality and equity
  • Universal design strategies
  • A chance to ask questions without judgement

 

Online

Creative Training: Using Creative Approaches with a Trauma-Informed Lens

The Horsfall 42nd Street are providing Creative training: Using creative approaches with a trauma-informed lens, with free spots for grassroots organisations in Manchester (provided in partnership with Making Manchester Fairer, to support health equity).

In this hands-on training, attendees will learn how to:

An introduction to trauma and links to food insecurity training sessions

Following on from the huge success of a pilot training session – An Introduction to Trauma and Links to Food Insecurity in May, the Our Manchester Food Partnership Team are delivering further sessions in September.

Three free additional training sessions are being delivered across the City at venues in north, south and central. Lunch be provided at all venues.

The training is both informative and helpful, and it will give you an understanding of some of the possible root causes and links between childhood experiences and food insecurity.

CHAORDIC – One Day Symposium

The CHAORDIC Symposium will be a landmark, one-day event that will offer key insights into and examine the transformative power and pivotal role of the arts within recovery.

The CHAORDIC project explores the social impact that collaborative contemporary visual arts can play on redefining substance use narratives and recovery identities. The Symposium is a major public event for Portraits of Recovery’s RECOVERIST Month in September 2025, which places lived experience at the heart of the annual, month long arts programme.

The Whitworth, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER
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