What is best practice for early intervention and prevention of mental health and mental illness?
Change Mental Health
Booking for this event is restricted - please sign up for a My SCVO account or sign in to access the booking form if you are eligible
- Day
- Wednesday 5 February
- Time slot
- 13:30-14:30
- Room
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Moorfoot suite
Wheelchair accessible - Contact
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Kieran Scott
07790809273 - Topics
- Health and social care Policy
- Overall aim
- To share findings and recommendations on best practice for early intervention and prevention in tackling mental health in rural Scotland.
- Gather insights from attendees to inform thinking around addressing early intervention and prevention of mental health in rural Scotland.
- Encourage collaboration between stakeholders and wider communities to address mental health at the earliest opportunity.
- Description
Living with poor mental health in rural Scotland has challenges, such as access to services, transport, lack of anonymity, low wage economies and support. Early intervention and prevention are key to mental health support, but what is best practice? Change Mental Health has been exploring, with the Scottish Government Mental Health Division, an evidence base within Scotland for best practice in collaborative, whole-system approaches to early intervention and prevention supporting those with poor mental health in rural communities. The above report was launched on February 4th and will recommend views on how best to bring delivery partners together in providing a person-centred approach in rural Scotland, where approximately 1 million people live. This SCVO Gathering event shall report on the findings with attendees and facilitate input into gathering insights on encouraging collaboration in and between organisations to address early intervention and prevention in their own areas. We will be looking for insight from attendees of this event to inform thinking around what they will take from the report to further address early intervention and prevention of mental health in rural Scotland, encouraging collaborative approaches.
- Who is the event aimed at?
Public
- Who is speaking at this event?
- Nick Ward - CEO, Change Mental Health
Martin McCoy - Public Health Scotland
Jessica Shields - Scot Cen
Tim Street - Mental Health Foundation
Hannah Dibnah, Ian Graham and Hamish Kidd - Change Mental Health
