Brighter Futures and Selby District Mental Health Forum wants to hear about your experiences of mental health services in the local area. This can be your direct experience or that of someone you care for like your child or young person. 

To make this as easy as possible to do, we have developed an online survey for you to tell us your thoughts. We will then collate the results from the survey and share these with service providers through the Selby Mental Health Partnership and Healthwatch North Yorkshire. We feel really strongly that our experiences need to be recorded and shared as a key part of improving services so please get involved. 

The survey is entirely confidential and will not collect any personal contact information unless you choose to share that with us. It should take about ten minutes to complete. 

Here is the link to follow: 

Click Here to Let Us Know About Your Experiences

(https://forms.gle/YFpmYrPEKkcsJFV69)

 

What's on locally...

Our What's on Locally page has now gone live with a calendar of upcoming events. We hope to publish details of further mental health events and activities happening across Selby District in the near future but in the meantime check out what we have so far and get in touch if you hear of anything happening locally.

SDMHF June Meeting

Hi everyone, come along to our next meeting on the 4th of June. We will be in Scott Road Community Centre from 5:30 - till 7pm. Find out how you can be involved in improving services in your local area.

Come along to our next meeting of the Mental Health Forum at 5:30pm on the 7th of May at Scott Road Community Centre, Selby

The next Forum meeting will be on the 2nd of April at 5:30 - 7pm in the Lounge of Scott Road Community Centre. Be great to see you there.

Ketamine - a new treatment for deprression

 

 

New ketamine-related drug could be ‘watershed’ in treating depression

‘Rapid acting’ esketamine was approved by the FDA to treat people who don’t respond to traditional psychiatric drugs

Jessica Glenza in New York

 @JessicaGlenza

Fri 8 Mar 2019 06.00 GMTLast modified on Fri 8 Mar 2019 06.03 GMT

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 Spravato was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for patients with hard-to-treat depression. Photograph: AP

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/08/new-ketamine-related-drug-could-be-watershed-in-treating-depression

 

Compassionate Mental Health event

Compassionate Mental Health event  Safe Spaces for Suffering & Joy is a one-day gathering on Monday 1 April 2019 at Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, London.  Compassionate Mental Health will be bringing together a wide cross section of people with a shared interest in transforming the way we live and work with mental health crises and distress. Join a community of peers, mental health professionals, family members and policy makers, who all want to work together to restore a sense of trust, belonging and connection. Speakers and facilitators: Will Hall - mental health advocate, counsellor, writer, and trainer. Will is recognised internationally as an innovator in the treatment and social response to psychosis. He is especially know for his work around trauma, and a harm reduction approach to medications.  Akiko Hart - chair of  the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis UK , Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden, and former Director of Mental Health Europe. Akiko is passionate about peer support in statutory services promoting real change. See the full list of speakers (more to be announced soon). Registration has opened and you can book now using this  Registration Form. Attendance costs range from £65 to £125. There are reduced fees for those with lived experience, small charities, students and NHS staff below Band 6 and LA equivalent.  There are limited bursary places for people with personal experience – either of living with mental distress or supporting someone who does - who couldn’t otherwise afford to come. If you know anyone who might benefit from this then please ask them to send an email to ask@compassionatementalhealth.co.uk saying why they are applying and what they hope to gain from the event.