Brighter Futures is a Mental Health Foundation pilot peer mentoring service for isolated older people in the community working with three project partners (Better Government for Older People in South Lanarkshire, Glasgow Association for Mental Health and Renfrewshire Association for Mental Health).
Brighter Futures is funded through Big Lottery Fund’s Life Transitions area of investment to run for a period of two years.
The aim is to significantly improve the quality of life of older people, enhancing their social networks, mental health and enabling meaningful activity.
Find out more about Brighter Futures
This is a European level 3-year programme aimed at addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with depression. The programme is co-ordinated by Kings College London. It involves surveys about stigma and discrimination and the development of scales and analysis of mental health policy and legislation.
We are leading the development and production of a best practice toolkit that is evidence based and pragmatic and usable across all EU countries.
This is a 2-year EU wide development programme identifying evidence based practice for mental health in the workplace. It will develop and implement a European campaign framework. The Mental Health Foundation have a strategic partnership with The Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives (NHS) to lead and manage the Scottish contribution to the programme.
We are leading a 2-year national development programme in partnership with Health Scotland’s inequalities team to co-ordinate and develop the capacity of public, voluntary and academic organisations across Scotland. This programme will undertake research with BME communities about mental health issues that can shape policy and practice. This will include identification of best practice, coordination and organisation of conference activity.
We are co-ordinating a programme of research, training and community development activity aimed at improving mental health and reducing stigma towards mental health issues with asylum seeker and refugee communities in Glasgow. Partners range from NHS and Scottish Refugee Council to community groups.
This international festival is the largest of its kind. It brings together most of the major arts, and mental health organisations across Scotland. The festival includes:
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film
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theatre
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music
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literature
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comedy
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visual arts
It is fast-becoming a significant cultural event. Over 10,000 people attended over 100 collaborative events in 2008. People also visited the websites, listened to broadcasts in partnership with BBC and visited exhibitions. There was
strong critical acclaim from major arts correspondents and wide ranging media coverage.
The 2009 Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival launched September 1, with 200 events taking place in over 100 settings across Scotland - events are low cost or free.
The festival promotes creativity and positive mental health, tackles stigma, explores meaning, and social inequalities. The central focus of this year's festival is on relationships and mental health - encompassing issues such as community connectedness, gender and sexuality and bereavement.
Hundreds of organizations have got together under the festival umbrella to develop events! Visit the Mental Health Arts and Film Festival website to find out more.
VOX is a Scottish national mental health service user led organisation. It works in partnership with mental health and related services to ensure that service users get every opportunity to contribute positively to changes in the services that serve them.
Find out more about VOX
In partnership with NHS Health Scotland and Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance, we are scoping the interest in establishing a mental health and ethnicity special interest group in Scotland.
Find out more about this project
The Crisis Project has been a partnership between the Mental Health Foundation, the Scottish Government and the Scottish Association for Mental Health and has developed National Standards for Crisis Services and recently published a Crisis Services Practice Toolkit.
Find out more about the crisis project
The Mental Health in Later Life Service Improvement Project, run in partnership with Age Concern Scotland and NHS Health Scotland, is disseminating the findings of the UK Inquiry into Mental Health and Wellbeing in Later Life.
Find out more about Mental Health in Later Life
Our Participatory Arts Self Evaluation Project was a 6 month capacity building and mentoring project for Scottish based participatory arts projects.
More information on participatory arts
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