YOUR TRAINING

SUST Summer School

SUST in partnership with the VAS Mental Health Training Project will be staging a series of half day training sessions in July and August 2008. This is your opportunity to try something different and benefit from the knowledge and experience of skilled mental health service user trainers. All of these short courses will run from 9.30 to 12.30 at VAS.

23 July

Depression Awareness

30 July

Taking charge of Our Lives: An introduction to counseling

6 August

Staying Sane in an insane world

13 August

Mental Health Service User Empowerment

20 August

Young Women and Self Harm and Offending Behaviour

27 August

The New National Advocacy Qualification

The cost of each session is £25 per person and free places will be available to mental health service users.

To book a place and for any further information contact:

Patrick Wood

Voluntary Action Sheffield

The Circle

33 Rockingham Lane

Sheffield S1 4FW

Tel: 0114 253 6626

email : p.wood@vas.org.uk

YOUR EVENTS

Going for brokerage in Sheffield

3 July 2008, 9.30am - 4.30pm

Centre in the Park, Norfolk Heritage Park

This event is free and open to anyone with an interest in self-directed services and brokerage and how this will work in Sheffield. It may be of particular interest to:

• brokerage staff;
• health and social care professionals;
• health and social care service providers;
• voluntary sector organisations;
• people who need support and their families.

The event aims to increase knowledge of brokerage, citizen leadership and local area co-ordination and its contribution to brokerage.

A free buffet lunch will be provided

Places are limited so book early!

To reserve your place or for more information contact:

Becca Liguori

Tel: 01142 273 4762

email : Rebecca.liguori@sheffield.gov.uk

YOUR SURVEYS

Moving People

The Moving People campaign aims to eliminate stigma and discrimination from mental health and publicly challenge attitudes towards mental health in England.

Over 3,000 service users and almost 1,000 carers completed Moving People's Stigma Shout survey. The survey will determine which audiences to target with an anti-discrimination social marketing campaign. The results of the survey should be published on the Moving People website in June.

For more information contact:

Moving People

15 - 19 Broadway

London E15 3BQ

Tel: 020 8215 2356

email : info@movingpeople.org.uk

Annual Carers' Week Survey

Survey results looking at the experience of thousands of carers to determine the impact caring can have on a carer's health and wellbeing are published in June

For more information visit the: Carers Week website