Thursday 27 June 2024
The Solace Cafe is now taking bookings. Click the link to learn more
Opening Hours: Thursday to Sunday 5-10pm
Location: The Solace Café operates from Urbun Café, Unit 2 Watermint, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
Thursday 13 June 2024
The first Connecting for Life Family Festival which is taking place on July 4th at 5-9pm in Knockmore Field (Behind Timmys Shop), Killinarden, Tallaght.
This event is open to all
communities across West Tallaght and everyone is welcome to attend for an
evening to access Mental Health and Community Supports, Football, Music, Arts,
Sports, Holistic Therapies and guests. It would be appreciated if you could
promote this event to your networks and post on your social media.
The Connecting For Life Festival is a wonderful example of
the great collaboration and partnership that is taking place in Tallaght with
statutory and community partners and is hosted by the Jobstown Connecting For
Life Group which includes partners from Connect 4 Programme, South Dublin
County Council, HSE Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow Community
Healthcare, South Dublin County Partnership, Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task
Force, Active South Dublin, Tusla, South Dublin County Volunteers, Barnardos,
Foroige, Jigsaw, Mount Seskin Secondary School and St Thomas Junior and Senior
Schools.
Your support at the event is greatly appreciated and we
encourage all services and supports in West Tallaght to get behind the event be
it host a stand or attend to support the event and enjoy all the offerings
available on the evening. If you would like to be involved please reach out to
me by email or call 087 662 7996.
It will be a fantastic event
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Beautiful Book called Safe Harbour has been launched
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A beautiful,
new, free illustrated story book ‘Safe Harbour’ that will support
children who have been bereaved by suicide, has been launched this morning.
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HUGG are offering suicide bereavement for men! Check out the details below
HUGG are pleased to announce their new online dedicated
suicide bereavement support group for men, which will be led by trained HUGG
Volunteers, Alan Martin, John Murphy and Clive Jackson. Please feel free to
share the information below with family, friends and your community.
Significantly fewer men than women access suicide
bereavement support services. However, it is vital that men know that accessing
support can be lifesaving, that their grief is valid and they deserve help.
Fiona Tuomey, HUGG Founder and CEO, stated “We want men to
know understanding their grief and connecting with others can be lifesaving.
They may carry unanswered questions, stigma, self-isolation and blame, in
addition to the trauma of losing their loved one. We also know that dedicated
support can help alleviate these impacts. Therefore, HUGG is launching its
first dedicated male only suicide bereavement support group, led by men for
men.”
The impact of a suicide ripples outwards often negatively
affecting the mental health and quality of life of the suicide bereaved.
AfterWords, the national survey of people bereaved by suicide in
Ireland conducted by HUGG and the National Suicide Research Foundation,
found unhealthy coping habits such as the use of alcohol, drugs and gambling
more prevalent among suicide bereaved men, than women. Following a death
by suicide 65% of men experienced mental health problems; 40% used alcohol to
cope with their grief; 33% reported problems with family relationships and 28%
said their physical health deteriorated.
The HUGG Men support group will explore themes focused on
suicide grief, grieving styles and healthy coping strategies. It will give men
a safe space to connect, to normalise their grief and discuss challenges and
helpful tools to living life beyond grief and into hope.
For more details about joining the HUGG Men support group,
complete the online form at https://www.hugg.ie/join-a-group/
or Email: support@hugg.ie or call 01 513
4048 (monitored answering machine).
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Slow and steady wins the race
Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves to achieve everything now and to be all things to all people and we are impatient with ourselves, with our progress and we compare ourselves to other people. But if life is a race, then we are all doing laps in our own time.
This short video reminds us of the importance of taking it one day at a time
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Mental health Engagement Conference is now online as well as in person
Unfortunately, in-person tickets for the “Mental Health
Engagement Conference 2024: Implementing Our Framework” on 5th June are now
sold out. However, due to the large demand for tickets, we have decided to make
the day a hybrid event for people to attend the conference remotely. If you
would like to join us online, please register your attendance using the link
below and you will receive a Webex link to access the conference from the
comfort of your home or office on the day.
Mental Health Engagement involves seeking to understand what
the experience of using mental health services is like for people to then take
concrete, feasible, and practical recommendations to Health Service Executive
management to bring about real-world improvements to how services are provided.
Meaningful Mental Health Engagement is a respectful, dignified, and equitable
process. It uses the perspectives of service users and their family members,
carers, and supporters to make mental health services better.
We have a packed programme of talks, panel discussions, and
interactive workshops for you – all centred around key themes identified by our
Area Leads for Mental Health Engagement following their consultation with their
communities. The themes reflect 3 key areas identified as core concerns for
people:
1.
Crisis Response
2.
Communication, and
3.
Family Involvement,
On 16 April 2024, our new Mental Health Engagement
Framework: 2024 – 2028 was launched by Mary Butler, TD, Minister for Mental
Health and Older Persons. This framework sets out how publicly funded mental
health services in Ireland can be reformed to better consider the perspectives
of people who use and provide these services. The focus of the day will be on
celebrating the value of Lived Experience, generating ideas of how services can
be improved in the 3 priority areas, and consequently implementing our new
framework.
The Keynote Speaker for the day is Prof Peter Beresford OBE.
Peter, from his many years as a mental health service user, academic, writer,
researcher, and activist has been at the very centre of the Lived Experience
social movement in the UK. This movement has sought to directly challenge
psychiatric stigma by advocating for people who use mental health services and
their supporters to be able to shape the mental health system. We are confident
that Peter’s talk on how ‘Lived Experience Is Everybody's Business’ will be
thought provoking and inspiring.
Please see below the programme for the day. We look forward
to hopefully seeing you then.
Aims of the day:
1.
To celebrate the value of Lived Experience in shaping mental health services,
2.
To generate ideas of how services can be improved in 3 priority areas (Crisis
Response, Communication, and Family Involvement), and
3.
To reflect on how best to implement our new Engagement framework as a
community.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MORNING
10 am ‘Conference registration, tea, coffee, pastries, and
networking’
10.30 am ‘Welcome address’ from Dervila Eyres (Assistant
National Director, HSE Head of Operations Mental Health)
10.50 am ‘Keynote Talk: Lived Experience Is Everybody's
Business’ from Prof. Peter Beresford OBE (Visiting Professor in the University
of East Anglia and Co-Chair Shaping Our Lives: the UK disabled people's and
user led organisation).
11.20 am ‘Brief overview of new Enhancing Engagement
Framework’ from Jacopo Villani (Programme Manager, Mental Health Engagement and
Recovery)
BREAK
11.30 am Stretch break and networking.
12 pm Videos and Panel Discussion: Crisis Response,
Communication, and Family Involvement
Panel chair: Sean O'Connell (Area Lead for Mental Health
Engagement, National Forensic Mental Health Service).
Panel members:
•
Lisa O’Leary (Volunteer from the National Lived Experience Panel)
•
Michelle Catherine Butler (HSE General Manager Mental Health Strategy and
Planning)
•
Joanne O’Meadhra (Person who has Used Services)
•
Roisin O’Meadhra (Family Member Representative)
•
Michael Ryan (Head of National Office of Mental Health Engagement and Recovery)
•
Margaret Duggan (Family Member Representative)
•
Sorcha Griffith (Senior Social Worker)
•
Dr Donal O’Keeffe (Recovery Coordinator, Family Member Representative, and
Person who has Used Services)
LUNCH
1 pm Lunch
AFTERNOON
2 pm ‘Interactive Workshops’ for all attendees, to discuss
potential solutions to issues raised, facilitated by Area Leads for Mental
Health Engagement.
3 pm Sharing with all attendees a summary of recommendations
arising from workshops and next steps.
3.20 pm ‘Review of the day’ from Michael Ryan (Head of
National Office of Mental Health Engagement and Recovery).
End 3.30 pm.
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