Take Action this Mental Health Awareness Week

Helping people make a real difference in their lives.

This Mental Health Awareness Week (11 – 17 May) offers an opportunity reflect and take action to support your mental health or that of someone you love.

Taking small actions can have a big impact – but sometimes it can feel quite hard to do when experiencing mental health challenges.

Support and services are available to help people with the everyday things affected by their mental health such as employment, housing, socialising and friendships.

Shelley Monaghan is the Operations Manager for the Individualised Placement & Support Service – helping people to find and maintain employment.

She said: “When we are experiencing mental health challenges it can feel really difficult to take action and do the things which help us in our mental health and everyday lives. That’s why there are services which meld mental health care with more focused support – helping people take the action they need in relation to things like their employment and work, friendships and housing, boosts people’s recovery and helps them live their lives well while experiencing mental health challenges.”

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership works to get people back into employment, education, stable accommodation, and support them to build relationships.

Keystone Mental Health & Wellbeing hubs provide people with mental health challenges access to access support when and where they need it, by the right people.

Oxfordshire Talking Therapies

Buckinghamshire

Primary Care Mental Health Hub (PCMHH) — Buckinghamshire responds to the social, psychological, economic and environmental factors that influence people’s lives offering care which is fully integrated across health, social care, housing, employment, benefits and the voluntary sector.

NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies