Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Check out this opportunity to do peer support training!

 

 

Certificate in Peer Support Working in
Mental Health (CPSMH)
Zoom Open Day

 

 

You're invited to the Certificate in Peer Support Working in Mental Health (CPSMH) Zoom Open Day on 20th March 2024 at 3.00pm. 
 

The course is open to applicants who would like to be Family Peer Support Workers and Peer Support Workers in Mental Health. 

 

The session will cover: 

  • Overview of the Certificate in Peer Support Working in Mental Health  
  • Placement 
  • Application process 
  • Fees and grants 
  • Time for questions

You can register via this link:
https://dcu-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuf-Copj4uHNDaBkrtgxmDuKINj9xam5CJ#/registration

 

Schedule for Feb week 4!

Week 4 Feb '24 by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this 12 week Training Opportunity for Men

 


Check out this Menopause 6 week Course happening at DCU's Recovery College

Menopause Poster (1).PDF (3) (1) (1) (3) by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this Hearing Voices Course happening at DCU's Recovery College

Hearing Voices DCU by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this fab opportunity happening at DCU's Recovery College!

Connect Create Participate Homeless 2024 Poster (5) (1) (3) by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this personal discovery course happening at DCU's Recovery College

Personal Discovery Course Poster (10).PDF (5) (1) (3) by Gateway Project on Scribd

Spring Newsletter from DCU's The Recovery College

Recovery College Newsletter (8) (1) (4) by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this fab opportunity

'Music in Mind' Drumming Workshops, Gateway Poster 2024 by Gateway Project on Scribd

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Hello How Are You Campaign is back! Save the date!

 


Check out the Creative Writing Group happening at Gateway!

Creating Writing by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the Meditation happening at Gateway!

Meditation by Gateway Project on Scribd

Gateway does WRAP!

WRAP Cafe by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the Art that's happening at Gateway

Art Poster by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out Mindful Movement at Gateway!

Mindful Movement by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the info about the Gateway Gardening Group!

Gardening Group by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the Gateway's Garden Jam!

Music Garden Jam Poster by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the info for Gateway's Gabber Club

Gabber Club by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the details of Gateway's Regular Walking Group

Walking Group by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out the details of the Gateway Gazette

Gateway Gazette Poster by Gateway Project on Scribd

Arches Programme!

REMINDER ARCHES Recovery College Programme for Feb and Mar 2024 by Gateway Project on Scribd

Check out this week's schedule

Week 3 Feb '24 by Gateway Project on Scribd

Thursday, 8 February 2024

Week 2 Feb Schedule

 

Week 2 Feb '24 by Gateway Project on Scribd

French philosopher and sociologist Émile Durkheim had some really interesting perspectives on the links between mental health and capitalism

It can be helpful to situate ourselves in the context of wider society and in history in order to deepen our understanding of our own mental health. Societal factors play a role in our wellbeing too.

Check out the link to learn about his theories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9W0GQvONKc

The rainy weather brining you down? Find solace and calm in this Tibetan Meditation

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFoZxAp9-8

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Drop In Hour changes for Feb

Gateway Drop in Hours Feb 24 by Gateway Project on Scribd

The far right are on the rise, but we must ask ourselves why? The below article points to some reasons for this deepening polarisation

Inequality ‘Fuelling Division and Political Polarisation,’ Human Rights Watchdog Warns _ Independent.ie by Gateway Project on Scribd

So much happening in the world of mental health!

 A Chara, 

 

A lot of things happening in the Peer Support, Human Rights and Community Development spaces in relation to mental Health 

 

World Health Organisation Free Training 

The World Health Organsiation is delivering QualityRights e-training on Mental Health, Recovery and Community Inclusion training online on the 15th of March 2024.  Join over 100,000 learners on this innovative online course and earn an official certificate from the World Health Organization! This training is free and it covers: 

• Understand and improve your own mental health and wellbeing 

• Learn how to support friends, family & members of the community who experience mental health difficulties 

• Gain the knowledge and skills to tackle stigma, discrimination, abuses & coercive practices 

• Learn how to provide mental health support to people with a mental health condition or experiencing a crisis 

• Learn how to actively engage people in their own treatment, care and support plan, providing tools & empowering them to overcome challenges 

• Gain valuable expertise & skills to lead reform towards a person-centred, rights-based, recovery approach   

Sign up here: https://humanrights-etrain-qualityrights.coorpacademy.com/signup 

This training is for everyone:

Persons with lived experience, the health & social care workforce, first responders, members of the justice system (for ex. police officers, prison officers, judges), teachers, family or community members, policymakers, employees of government, private and not-for-profit sectors.

 

ECT Research

A team of 3 people with experience of receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and 3 psychologists co-designed this first online international survey on the positive, negative or mixed experiences of this treatment. This is for family and friends too. The views and experiences of people using services are essential and too often not heard. This survey has been supported by MIND Charity (see attached).

 

Who the survey is for and things to consider:

·        You are at least 18 years old and have had ECT at any point, other than the last 4 weeks.

·        You are family or friends of someone who has had ECT at any point.

·        The survey takes about 30-40 minutes.

·        Full participant information is available when you click the link below.

·        If questions about ECT or about the experiences that led you to having ECT might be distressing for you, please seriously consider not taking the survey.

 

Survey link: https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57KmQWiynXIhMNw

 

Prof John Read (Lead Researcher) profile: https://uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/john-read

In 2022 Professor Read was listed in Stanford University’s register of the top 2% most cited researchers in the world. He has published six reviews of the ECT research literature (including four in peer-reviewed journals) and made multiple commentaries on the research. The journals in which these papers have been published include leading international medical and psychiatry journals such as: British Medical Journal (2019), British Journal of Psychiatry (2021, 2021); Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (2010 & 2022), Frontiers in Psychiatry (2014), Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (2021), Lancet-Psychiatry (2022) and Psychological Medicine (2022).

His most recent peer-reviewed review of the ECT literature was a 40-page paper, in 2019, written with Professor Irving Kirsch, Associate Director of Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School. He is also the lead researcher on two independent audits of the administration and monitoring of ECT in England’s National Health Service, and co-author of three studies of the accuracy of information provided to ECT patients and their families.

 

Peer Support Literature Review 

Gavin Davidson who lead the team in the recent literature review sent on the summary and main document to circulate. Please see same attached.  

 

Certificate in Peer Support in Mental Health Open Day 

Our next open day is on zoom at 11.00 am on the 20th of February sign up here for more details. https://dcu-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApfuGppj0rH9Uw_kFgcECZw5MNuDBRmnu7 

 

Better Together Launch 

Please find attached a letter of invitation for the launch of Better Together services and it's partnership research with South East
Technological University. This event will be officially launched by Minister Hildegarde Naughton on Thursday 22nd February in Kilkenny at 12pm. Please reserve your place by emailing aisling.ennis@hse.ie at your earliest convenience and by the latest 19th February 2024. 

 

Mad in Ireland 

If you want to write for Mad in Ireland have a look at https://madinireland.com/submission-guidelines/ 

 

Community Development Mental Health Group

The Community Development Mental Health Network brings together our members who are concerned with current models of mental health provision and seek the development of emancipatory and human-rights based approaches to mental health. This includes transformative, integrative and empowering adult education and community development approaches to healing, inclusion and mental health.

 The vision of this working group is “a society where people are free from coercion, where mental health and wellbeing, and the recognition of both distress and madness, are all valued as central to the interests of the communities in which we live, and where healing, empowerment, inclusion and equality are all celebrated”.

 Register your interest at info@cwi.ie

Check out this WHO Quality Rights E-Training!

Final Ns Cc Who Etraining Flyer 2 by Gateway Project on Scribd

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