Hello and welcome to another weekly, although a bit longer than weekly roundup. Yesterday I attended the SouthWest London and St Georges Mental health Trust AGM. Although I didnt attend it, I am now a co-host for the Peer Recognition support group, so I attended the coffee and chat part of the AGM and just after the meeting started, I had to leave. But..... me being me, i went around, handing out my flyer to anybody who would take it. I met a couple of the directors and, overheard a couple of ladies talking about their experiances, so, again I gave them my leaflets. And that turned in to a long conversation about "We were only talking about the lack of information sharing". It transpires they are councillors and their task is to try and get the communities involved and aware. They were so excited to hear about the website, it again reminded my why i do this, what its all for. This lead on to a couple of name dropping and further LinkedIn contacts. It was the ecitement they displayed when they checked out their area to find I had local services defined for that area which in turn really got me excited all over again.

I also met the guys who run the volunteer center, and have already had a few emails with details of pilot schemes and names of people to contact...

And.... I met someone who is trying to create a connection for a community within sutton. By this I mean, he is meeting people, and discussin what they want, what they would like to get involved in, within a community in Sutton. He has produced a really good calendar booklet, which describes each day, what is available, where its located with a brief summary. he also use to run a website simular to what im doing but just focusing on Sutton, so we are going to see if there is any cross over and build on that.

I intend to reproduce anything which is working in this area to other areas around the UK, so if anybody is interested to help, then let me know and we can have a chat, see what you can do to help me, and ill see what I can do to help you and your community.

I need a team of people !! help ! :)

Hello and welcome to this weeks round up.

So, to start off, Dialogue Plus, this is the new method to assess and create a care plan for patients. I attended a workshop this week, to listen to feedback from people who took part in the pilot, to see what they thought worked well and where it could be improved. It was interesting. In the end, I ... well, I gave out around 100 flyers for My Mental Wellness UK, as each and everybody who attended saw the purpose of the site and wanted to pass on information to their patients. Some of the participants already knew about the site, and asked for more flyers... It was an amazing 4 hours, just listening to them talking about the system.

Support groups

Then Chatterbox on Thursday. This is the 3rd meeting I attended, and heard some amazing feedback from a previous attendee. Next week it looks like we have around 10 people attending, so its starting to take off. You can find details if you change the location to Sutton and check out Support Groups. Chatterbox covers South West London's 5 borough.

Plans for next week

Next week, im attending a Suicide Prevention conference, Sutton Mental Health foundaton for a number of events, and it looks like I have 5 meetings / steering groups / forums to attend. Going to be a busy week.

Website News.

The Location service is working really well, im really pleased with it. Let me know what you think. I have verified a further 30 carers resources, Check out your area, see if its been listed yet, if not, its comming.... And finally, I have re-writen the verificaiton email system. So if you are a service user, please look out for your email to verify the information just by clicking a link in the email.

Final word

Have a great week, but if you find you are struggling, please make use of the website and I trust you will find the support you need.