A Life in the Day: Volume 11 Issue 4

Editorial

Adam Pozner

Working in partnership to deliver training

Em Jones, Sue Hahn

Service user involvement in mental health services is now accepted by mental health trusts and commissioners as an important feature of service development. Service users are…

Stay well — stay working

Vicky Edmonds, Anton Neumann

Earlier this year Richmond Fellowship launched its new RETAIN job retention service for people with mental health problems. Vicky Edmonds and Anton Neumann describe why the…

Face to face: a mentoring project for forced migrants

David Palmer

Forced migrants (refugees and asylum seekers) are very vulnerable to mental health problems, and their difficulties are often made worse by the migration process itself. David…

With Art in Mind

Theo Stickley, Willow Merryweather, Paul Leighton

Based in a deprived inner city area in Nottingham, Art in Mind aims to improve individual health and well‐being and to raise mental health awareness by encouraging self‐expression…

Opportunities for transformation

Franco Di Francesco, Tom Gourlay

Franco Di Francesco and Tom Gourlay describe the process of changing Hastings Resource Centre from a traditional mental health day centre to a modernised community resource…

Business minds

Chris Fitch, Stu Anderson, Vyvyan Kinross, Lionel Joyce, Drew Cormack

Can mainstream business advice agencies on the high street help people with mental health problems set up their own enterprises? The Business Minds demonstration project in…

Policy and action

Sarah Hill

Sarah Hill outlines project developments and new reports linked with the National Social Inclusion Programme