/ Families, children and young people
Young fathers face significant and specific challenges which can affect their mental health. In this blog, we'll explore some of them and what we can do about them.
/ Mental health in later life
Death. It's a pretty dark topic isn't it? Not many of us want to talk about our own or loved ones' deaths before they happen. Last month, my Grandma passed away at the age of 87 after an increasingly difficult struggle with dementia.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
For Mental Health Awareness Week, we've looked at what we can do to make ourselves less stressed, and we can all do something. But governments in the UK also need to step up and take a leading role in helping to improve our collective mental health by tackling chronic stress.
/ Mental health in the workplace
Many of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, so it is important that our workplaces are mentally healthy.
/ Prevention resources and tools
I have real trouble with sleep, so much so that not sleeping has become a constant in my life.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
Our CEO Mark Rowland talks about stress and Mental Health Awareness Week.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
The Mental Health Foundation received funding from DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning) to conduct a one-year pilot study to address the high levels of physical ill-health and preventable deaths of people with serious mental health problems in Northern Ireland.
/ Prevention resources and tools
Professor Paul Crawford tells his story of how he recovered while facilitating a Creative Practices for Mutual Recovery class.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
Here is a BIG question that keeps me awake at night: what is the single greatest thing we could do to prevent mental health problems?
/ Families, children and young people
This year, in partnership with NHS Health Scotland, we sponsored Scotland’s first ‘Mental Health and wellbeing’ award at YouthLink Scotland’s National Youth Work Awards 2018 to recognise the power of youth work when it comes to helping young people to stay mentally well.
