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NSUN AGM report 1.11.11
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DANCING TO OUR OWN TUNES REPORT - Review & Reprint
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Unlocking Service User Involvement Practice in Forensic Settings
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MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT - STRATEGY PAPER
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Mental Health Resistance Network - Judicial Review
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NETWORK
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NSUN Annual General Meeting: results of elections
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Critical Perspectives On User Involvement
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Centre for Mental Health briefings
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RECOVERY DEVON
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BLACK WOMEN: Recovery & Resilience report
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Report on the Place of Spirituality in Mental Health
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MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY
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Recovery In Sight Enterprise brochure
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Groups
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Kuumba Foundation
The Kuumba Centre is a service, provided by Sandwell African Caribbean Mental Health Foundation. We aim to improve the lives of African Caribbean people affected by mental ill health in and around the Sandwell borough by providing quality support services and information for families and carers on mental health issues. |
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The Expert ForumThe expert forum is a partnership between people who have used services and staff members to support other groups and individuals to "do it for themselves" give accessible and easy to read information and guideance to people on how to set up and run support opportunities in the community. |
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Resource Hub Steering GroupThe Resource Hub Steering Group enables people who have used menatl health services to deliver their own social networks. We empower people with lived experience to peer support and develop a series of networks across the city |
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First Person Plural
First Person Plural is a small UK-wide registered charity led by abuse survivors with first hand experience of complex dissociative distress. We are a membership association open to dissociative survivors, their friends, family & professional allies and anyone with an interest in dissociation who wishes to support our work. Much of our work is achieved through a mutual support model which means that members support each other with self-help tips, information etc through the medium of the newsletter and attendance at occasional open members meetings. |
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Users In Partnership UIP
We are an independent, friendly User Network established for over 12 years and now registered as a Community Interest Company and open to people with lived experience of mental distress and their allies. UIP was formed by a group of service users who wished to be heard. Their case was taken up by West Midlands Partnership in Mental Health. For a number of years the organisation was hosted by the National Institute for Mental Health in England and then the Mental Health arm of the Care Services Improvement Partnership. In 2006 the membership decided to become independent, and in 2007 the organisation became registered as a Community Interest Company. |
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Support Association for Mental Health
We are a user led voluntary organisation, who have experience in Mental Health issues. We work closely with Dudley Mental Health Services and Dudley Council to signpost and advise in all of the different aspects of the Mental Health system. |
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Birmingham Mind
The Improving Mind group aims to do exactly what its name says. If Birmingham Mind has a new policy it is considering or new documents it wants service users to use, they come to Improving Mind to consult service users and make changes to them based on service users, ideas and experiences. |
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Frantz Fanon Empowerment Group
A user-led group providing empowerment to individuals of diverse backgrounds. Every Wednesday, 1.00pm - 4.30pm. |
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust UserWatchAn Independent Occasionally Very Satired View Of Mental Health NHS Issues As Well As Those Further Afield |
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Suresearch
Suresearch is a network of Service Users in Research and Education. We welcome as members, users and survivors of mental health services and their allies, who have experience and/or an interest in mental health research and education. We are a non-affiliated organisation supported by the Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health at the University of Birmingham. |
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COPE
COPE: Black Mental Health Foundation is a not-for-profit voluntary organistaion committed to working and providing quality and timely services for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) mental health users, carers, lone parents and families in partnership with other organisations with a duty of care. |
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Mental Health Service for South Asian Women
Mashriq Challenge Resource Centre was founded in November 2004. It is aUser Led Organisation (ULO) which means the service users are also board members.It was set up by a small group of people, who had been working in various roles within the community. MCRC is a Company Limited by Guarantee Non-Profit Organisation. The Organisation was formed in response to a chronic shortage of emotional well-being and care for women from the Asian and Ethnic minority communities and cultures. It has gone strength to strength and has a wide variety of services available. |
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W.A.I.T.SWAITS is a women’s educational charity established in 1992. We are concerned with local women’s fuller involvement in the public life of their communities, from education to employment, personal to social and leadership to decision making. We support women to address issues such as welfare benefits, employment and education, domestic violence, isolation, health, crime and the fear of crime and many more. “Women with the power to make and influence decisions and make positive change” A Network of women’s groups, our membership reflects the diverse communities of Birmingham, Sandwell and other parts of the West Midlands. WAITS has been, and will continue to be, an innovator. We are uniquely placed to provide accessible and responsive services to a variety of hard to reach women. |
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AIMHS
Actively Influencing Mental Health Services AIMHS aims is to improve mental health services by helping people who have accessed or are currently accessing services to be involved in the way services are planned and delivered. |
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Coventry MDF
The MDF Bipolar Coventry Self-Help group was set up in 2002, and is one of many groups in a nationwide network all of which are dedicated to supporting and developing self-help opportunities for people affected by Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression. The group is run by local volunteers with the support of MDF |
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SAFELINESAFELINE is a voluntary association based in the UK which has been established by people who were themselves sexually abused as children. |
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The Tamarind Centre
The Tamarind Centre is a registered Charity and was established in 1989 (formally known as Coventry Black Mental Health Association). The Primary aim of the organisation is to provide support to the BME (Black Minority Ethnic) Communities of Coventry in particular African Caribbean and Asian people who are experiencing Mental Ill Health, using the services we offer. |
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Birmingham Mental Health and Community Resource Directory
Administered by Mind in Birmingham we are an innovative mental health project. We have a small, dedicated team of staff and volunteers, and between us we have plenty of mental health experience from both a personal and professional view point. |
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Herefordshire Service User Network (S.U.N.)
SUN was originally set up by Herefordshire Centre of Independent Living as a Peer Support Group to enable direct payment users to meet and offer mutual support and advice to each other on any aspect of receiving a direct payment. |
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No Panic
No Panic is a totally voluntary charity, whose aims are to aid the relief and rehabilitation of those people suffering from Panic Attacks, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, other related Anxiety Disorders, including Tranquilliser Withdrawal, and to provide support to sufferers and their families and or carers. |
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Worcestershire Association of Service Users
WASU is a registered charity run by a Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees are all volunteer service users from varying user groups. The Chief Executive provides support and advices the board of trustees who make all final decisions on the direction and strategy of the organisation. The Chief Executive is the sole paid employee, and is also the company secretary. Every year WASU holds an AGM to celebrate it’s achievements for the year and to agree the accounts. Elections take place so that new Trustees can join the board. All service user members are invited to the AGM and have the opportunity to vote. |
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BorderlandBorderland Voices was founded in 1998 in Leek, Staffordshire and currently works across the Staffordshire Moorlands. Our aim is to promote mental health through the arts and to raise public awareness and understanding of mental health issues by delivering accessible arts projects and offering creative space for self-expression within a mutually supportive community. |
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Unique People
Unique People is a mental health support group based in West Bromwich providing a point of contact for those using mental health services in Sandwell. We work alongside a wide variety of groups including Sandwell PCT in improving mental health provisions in Sandwell, and sometimes further The group is led predominantly by those who are currently using or have used mental health services which gives us a unique insight and understanding into the way services are run in the area. |
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Shropshire Disability Network
Shropshire Disability Network (SDN) was formed in 2008 to provide a powerful collective voice for disabled people across Shropshire. The Shropshire Disability Network welcomes all to its open meetings which provide a varied programme of inspirational and informative speakers preceded by a short formal meeting for discussion of current issues relevant to the network. |
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A PLUS
A Plus is an Activities Group for people with Mental Health problems. Our group is very welcoming, caring and supportive with lots of positive energy. Our emphasis is on self-help and developing independence whilst having some fun, learning skills, and increasing confidence. |
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South Staffordshire Network for Mental Health
The Network has over 300 members, made up of individuals who have an interest in mental health in the South Staffordshire area. Becoming a member is free and our members benefit from receiving our Network News magazine four times a year and being invited to our events and other consultation & involvement opportunities. |
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Walsall Service Users Empowerment
Walsall SUE began in November 1993. It is a user-led organisation, with a committee of 14 service users with a wide background in health conditions. We aim to improve Walsall residents access to support services. |
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Warwickshire User ForumWarwickshire User Forum was previously South Warwickshire User Forum (SWUF) and has been active within the region for nearly 14 years. We are currently involved in two projects - The Awareness, Media and Information Project, funded by Comic Relief, and the Positive Voices Project, funded by Warwickshire County Council Arts Department. |
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One VoiceWe are an organisation run by disabled people, offering help advice and support to other disabled people as well as offering information, training, consultation and partnership working to other organisations on issues to do with disabled citizen's lives. One Voice is run in line with the social model of disability - we believe that people like us have impairments, what disables us is an inaccessible environment or disabling attitudes. |
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Positive Thoughts
This group is a coming together of like-minded, local individuals, who understand the experience of mental distress and who believe that meeting, in a sharing and supportive way, can be really helpful. |
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Mental Health Action Worcestershire
Representation and support for service users and carers in Worcestershire. Together we can influence and improve mental health services now and for the future. |
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DISPEER
DISPEER is a peer-to-peer disability support group which has been going from strength to strength over the last 2 years. We are currently based at Birmingham Centre For Inclusive Living, which has provided us with assistance in becoming independent. |
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