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AIR Football Referrals

Do you have a client who are is looking for a focus in life, wants to improve their fitness, health, team building skills, confidence and self esteem ?? At AIR Football with dedicated staff who are available to guide their players through this difficult period of the lives, we deliver weekly training sessions, monthly tournaments, access to the gym, health promotion and with volunteering opportunities we can really be the step needed to inspire them.

You can download a referral and membership form herehere

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Have your say about child mental health services

This summer, NAS will be launching their next major campaign focusing on child mental health services. If you're the parent of someone with an autism spectrum disorder aged 21 or younger who has experienced mental health problems (including anxiety and behaviour problems) NAS would like to hear from you. Find out more here

Saturday Drop in For people living with dementia and their families

The next Saturday Drop in is on Saturday 13th February at the Dementia Resource Centre, from 10.30am to 1.30pm.

There will be plenty of information about dementia services as well as refreshments and complementary therapy tasters.

Venue: Dementia Resource Centre, 372 Chadwell Heath Lane, Romford, RM6 4YG

For further information please email or contact her on:

Valentines Day Party, Friday 12th February, 6pm to 10pm

The living well resource centre would like to invite you all to a Valentines day party. The evening includes: a free glass of bubbly, Valentines games, Speed dating, Raffle, Lucky dip, Tombola & Valentines gifts on sale.

Tickets are £3 and can be bought from the Living Well Resource Centre.

The money raised at this party will be going towards Gemma Clarke's sponsorship money for the Virgin London Marathon on behalf of Help the Aged & Age Concern.

Living Well Resource Centre 372 Chadwell Heath Lane Chadwell Heath RM6 4YD

For further information please email or contact her on:

New Horizons

New Horizons is a comprehensive programme of action for improving the mental well-being of the population and the services that care for people with poor mental health by 2020. It brings together organisations across national and local Government, voluntary and statutory agencies, as well as local communities and individuals to work towards a society that values mental well-being as much as physical health.

The New Horizons strategy brings with it a new set of ambitions for the next 10 years of mental health policy in England.

For the first time, the whole of government has today committed to promote mental wellbeing and to make life better for people with mental health problems.

here

NHS Direct Launches online Mental Health Advice

NHS Direct have launched an online mental health symptom checker to find out how you can deal with common mental health conditions. They can provide confidential advice and information. They will ask a series of questions, which the enquirer should answer carefully so they can give you the best advice

here

EMERGENCE....discovering the creative self

An inspirational multi-disciplinary exhibition of artwork by London artists who identify with the symptoms and issues surrounding Personality Disorder. Visual art, film, sculpture, debates, workshops, talks and performances throughout this 5 week show.

Our Space Gallery, Together, 12 Old Street, London EC1V 9BE, Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm, , www.together-uk.org

here

Count Me In Census

Age discrimination in mental health services: making equality a reality

The Royal College of Psychiatrists have launched a new report which exposes the ways in which older people are missing out on vital support and risking serious deterioration in their mental health. Tens of thousands of people over the age of 65 are being denied access to specialist mental health services because of arbitrary' age limits, the report says.

Mental health services have traditionally been configured by age. This means that if someone is 65 years old, they can receive a wide range of support through adult mental health services. But a person who is only one year older - regardless of their need - may be placed in an older people's service where this same support is not available.

For example, if someone under the age of 65 has a mental health crisis, such as an attempted suicide, they can have immediate assessment and treatment at home from a 24-hour specialist team. But people over the age of 65 cannot.

Read the new report Age Discrimination in mental health services: making equality a reality here

Read the accompanying evidence document The need to tackle age discrimination in mental health here

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