Past programmes
Age Well
This programme aimed to find out how the generation of people currently aged 55 to 65 can protect their mental health and wellbeing as they get older.
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Amaan
The Amaan project raised awareness of the mental health needs of asylum-seeking and refugee women in Glasgow.
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Arts and mental health
We worked on a platform for arts and mental health in Wales, while working with organisations as Learning Partners to explore how the arts can be beneficial to them and
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Comhar men's group
Joining with Immigration Counselling and Psychotherapy (icap), the Comhar men's group programme ran self-management courses for Irish men in mid-life.
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Creating Connections
Creating Connections ran between 2014 to 2016, as a programme of self-management and peer support to single parents in Wales.
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Dementia self-help project
This programme facilitated three self-help, peer-support groups for people with dementia (or suspected dementia) in extra care and sheltered housing schemes across London.
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Feeling Our Way
This programme provided care-experienced young people in Nottingham with a package of support of digital and physical resources to improve their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Get into Summer 2021
The Get into Summer funding scheme supported the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Scotland during summer 2021.
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MyLife, MyFuture
This programme worked with young people in local authority care in the London Borough of Sutton to improve their mental health and resilience.
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Parc Prison Peer-led Self-Management Project
This self-management programme ran courses on mental health for inmates of the UK prison environment for the first time, at Parc men's Prison, Bridgend in South Wales.
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The Perthyn Project
The Perthyn project ran from January 2019 for a year (‘Perthyn’ meaning ‘Belonging’ in Welsh).
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Refugee Health Policy and Strategy Action Group
From 2017 to 2019, we conducted focus groups with newly arrived Syrians in Scotland to increase the engagement of refugees and raise awareness of their mental health needs.
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The Resilience Project
This programme was aimed at building greater capacity, expertise and mental health resilience for children and young people, primarily through educational settings.
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Sawti
Meaning ‘my voice’ in Arabic, this programme aimed to raise awareness of mental health and well-being of refugees using the arts, as well as develop a mentoring scheme among refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.
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Standing Together Cymru
This was a three-year programme based in Newport, Wales, that ran 30 weekly peer support groups in retirement and extra care housing schemes.
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