April 2021
Suicide Prevention Webinar with Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust
SUF and service users are delivering an internal webinar for NSFT staff to find out more about suicide prevention using the coproduced LISTEN model for crisis care, and how to support someone in distress who is living with thoughts of suicide. The conversation will include the importance of the language around suicide and the message. "Change the Language, Save a Life, Suicide is Not a Choice" . You can see the coproduced listen model below and read our booklet called…
Find out more »Coproducing the SUF Equally Well Pledge
Join us and help us to coproduce our Equally Well Pledge which will enable us to become a member of the national charity Equally Well UK and support our new project called Healthy Together. Healthy Together is SUF's peer support for people living with serious mental illness, in which we support people to get the physical healthcare that they need. We believe that living with a mental health problem should not mean people have any less right to good physical…
Find out more »Five Ways to Wellbeing – Week 2 Be Active
Week two of our Five Ways to Wellbeing is called Be Active- it all about increasing our physical activity. Being active is not only great for our physical health but for our mental health too. Activity releases chemicals called endorphins and serotonin that improve our mood. Being more active every day, building in exercise, helps us all to reduce stress and symptoms of mental health conditions like depression, anxiety and helps with recovery from mental health issues. Activity increases our…
Find out more »SUF Trustees Board Meeting
Our Trustee Board meetings are formal meetings of the SUF trustee board. Our board meet about eight times a year. Board meetings are currently held on line through Zoom. Each meeting is chaired by our chair of Trustees Guenever Pachent. Formal minutes are made at each board meeting and a Chairs update is sent to all of our SUF community members, to help keep you up to date with SUF business and developments. You can read our Chairs Update HERE
Find out more »Five Ways to Wellbeing – Week 3 Take Notice
Week 3 of our Five Ways for Wellbeing focuses on Take Notice. Just a few minutes each day where we stop, take notice of our thoughts and the world around us, can help us to release judgement. We can begin to understand more about ourselves, see joy in our lives, strengthening our wider awareness. Taking notice is about becoming more aware of the present moment. Noticing the sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and textures that we experience, as well as our…
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