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"Mental Health Promotion" means the encouragement of good individual and community mental health ; it also means challenging social prejudices, fears and reportage that affect the image and understanding of mental ill-health.
With regard to the latter meaning, NIMHE has begun a campaign called ShiFT (www.shift.org.uk).
MIND has also campaigned for years on these issues, along with other central organisations.
But this does not mean the same issues cannot be addressed locally as well. The two initiatives suggested here (both tried and tested and found to work well) are :
- a policy for ensuring a “good” mental health story goes into the local press on a regular basis (see downloads, both of a summary and of the fuller policy paper)
- an annual mental health Party in the Park (see download)
Further, two interesting initiatives were presented in Melbourne at the 2003 Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health – one from Australia and another from Finland (see download). The first describes how a whole community can come together to agree strategies for improving its mental health, helped positively by a participating local press. And the second describes an immensely ambitious programme for training teachers across a country in mental health issues. See the report here.
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| Good Press Policy - Bullet Points |
A policy for ensuring a “good” mental health story goes into the local press.
Bullet Points
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In Full
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| Party in the Park |
The annual Party in the park
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File size: 643k
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| WFMH Congress 2003 |
Excerpts from the report on the Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health, held in Melbourne, 2003.
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