Speakup CIC Peer Support Activities Diary for December 2012

Please click on the link below:
http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blog_canterbury/Peer%20Support%20activities-%20December%20%2012%20word%2097-03.pdf

Recovery Group Information Day

Service User trainers wanted to co-facilitate recovery groups.  For more information and to apply
please click on the link below.

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blog_canterbury/Recovery%20Group%20poster.pdf

Speakup CIC Winter Newsletter 2012

Grab a cuppa, put your feet up and have a read of all that Speakup CIC have been up to and have planned, enjoy! Includes lots of information on what's on over Christmas.
Click on the link below,

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blog_dover/Speakup%20CIC%20winter.newsletter.2012..pdf

Mental Health Support/Action Event at Maidstone on 25th January

MIND are running these national events on the themes of campaigning and influencing the new NHS structures and the tools people need to effectively do so, to showcase peer support research, highlighting interesting and innovative projects, and to look at challenging discrimination through workshops run by Time to Change champions.

The Kent event will be in Maidstone. For further details and to book a place please click on the link below:

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/Take%20mental%20health%20action_A5_v8.pdf

Service Users' Forum

Have your say. Come along and share your experiences of using Mental Health Services in a warm friendly atmosphere.

We meet at Pathways to Wellbeing,

Deal Ability Centre, 43 Victoria Road,

Deal CT14 7AY.

Fridays @ 11-12pm on;

September 7^th

October 5^th

November 2^nd

December 7^th

If you need any more information

Contact Amanda on 01843 609359 or E-mail Amanda@speakupcic.co.uk

Coleman House Service Users' Meeting

Have your say. Come along and share your experiences of using Mental Health Services in a warm friendly atmosphere.

We meet at Coleman House, Dover at 1.30-3.30pm. On: -

Wednesdays – 17^th Oct. 2012

                                  14^th Nov. 2012

                                  12^th Dec. 2012

                                 

If you need any more information Contact Amanda on

01843 609359 or E-mail Amanda@speakupcic.co.uk

Speakup CIC Autumn Newsletter

Speakup CIC have published their colourful and informative Autumn Newsletter - 28 pages of news, views, information, photos and articles.

Carer's Picnic

Rethink Mental Illness East Kent Carer Support Service is supporting this year’s Carers Week (18-24 June) by organising a Carer's Picnic.

The event takes place on the Walmer Green Seafront, Walmer, Deal on Thursday 21st June from 11am - 2pm.

Anyone is welcome to join us with their picnic's.

Carers Week highlights the vital contribution made by carers to their families and communities in providing unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled. This year, the theme for the week is ‘In Sickness and in Health". It calls for greater support for unpaid carers to help them continue in their caring role without facing ill health, stress or financial worry.

Along with many other events taking place across the UK, the Carer's Picnic will help to support carers by raising awareness of the invaluable work that today's unpaid carers do.

KMPT Foundation Trust Public Engagement Event

The Kent and Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) are holding a series of events to enable the public, some of whom will be service users and carers, to open up a dialogue with members of KMPT's Executive team in finding out about the values, visions and future plans of the organisation, and how this inter-links with KMPT's application to become a Foundation Trust.

The East Kent event is on 11 April, 18:30 - 20:30, at

Anselm Hall (Main North Campus),
Canterbury Christ Church University
Homes Road, Canterbury
CT1 1QU

Open Day at The Beacon 27 March

The Beacon in Ramsgate is the home of the Thanet Community Mental Health Team. On Tuesday 27 March they are holding an Open Day, to enable Beacon-based staff to meet and mingle with local voluntary, charitable and non-statutory providers of care and support to those with mental health problems and needs - including service user and carer organisations. The intended outcome is increased referrals from The Beacon to non-statutory providers, increased use of Personal Budgets, and greater community connections!


Amongst those attending will be representatives from the Live It Well website, Rethink, Mental Health Matters and Time to Change.


Tuesday 27 March, 10am to 2pm at


The Beacon
Manston Road
Ramsgate
CT12 6NT

Service user and carer involvement - 15 Steps Challenge

We all know that first impressions count and when walking on to a hospital ward the first “15 Steps” will give you an impression of what is happening on the ward. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement are developing the 15 Steps Challenge, a tool to support ward walk arounds, looking at productive wards from the patient perspective. The programme identifies simple things like protecting meal times, protecting drug rounds and preventing interruptions at staff handovers.

The Strategic Health Authority (SHA) are working with mental health trusts across the south of England in developing this tool for mental health, as it was originally developed for Acute Trusts. The Kent & Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) have adapted this tool slightly to fit in with the productive mental health ward and will be part of the SHA’s work, but in the meantime will use the tool developed.

The process will be that a team of people consisting of non-executive directors, carers and services users, directors, service managers etc. will visit one to two wards every month to audit against the 15 steps criteria (no more that 4 people will be in any team). A programme will be produced and co-ordinated through the Compliance and Risk Management Team who will also work in getting teams together. A briefing session will then be delivered by the Deputy Director of Nursing to the teams.

The dates for the team briefings aimed at a more in-depth explanation of the process are 11th April in Canterbury at 2pm for 90 minutes &10th April at West Malling at 2pm for 90 minutes.

Anyone interested in getting involved in the team visits should contact Janet Lloyd, PPCI Manager Kent & Medway Partnership Trust, via email or on 01227 812034

Draft LPMG minutes published

Draft minutes of the January 2012 Dover Deal LPMG meeting have been published. They include a valuable discussion about personalisation and brokerage with Katie Bell of Signpost UK and Paul Absolon, KCC Strategic Mental Health Commissioner.

Are you a mental health service user or carer?

Would you like to ask a question or raise an issue about Kent & Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) services with senior management?


Andy Oldfield, Assistant Director for East Kent Community Services

Cathy Nyemeck, Service Manager for Canterbury, Coastal & Swale Recovery Services

Michelle Webb, Service Manager for Canterbury, Coastal & Swale Access Services

will be available to talk to you on 30th May 2012, from 2.30pm - 4:30pm

at

Main Hall, St Martin’s Hospital,
Littlebourne Road, Canterbury, CT1 1AZ

East Kent Carers Support newsletter

East Kent Carers Support - part of Rethink Mental Illness - have published a newsletter full of valuable information and articles.