BY JENNA WEST ONLINE CBT CO-ORDINATOR, NHS WALES You’re exhausted, you’re a whirlwind of emotions and your pregnancy or new parenthood aren’t working out exactly how you’d imag...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/04/maternal-mental-health-awareness-week.html
Keys to the new premises in Machynlleth! Pat Cook has been a volunteer at Makerspace in Machynlleth since the start of 2024. She says: “I can’t even begin to describe how important it has...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/04/machynlleth-makerspace-learn-socialise.html
WE RECENTLY WELCOMED MARIELLE RESTALL, NHS 111 PRESS 2 TEAM LEAD FOR POWYS TEACHING HEALTH BOARD, to our Health & Wellbeing team meeting to give us an update about this relatively new servic...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/04/nhs-111-press-2-mental-health-support.html
Reg Cawthorne – High Sheriff of Powys with Michele Humberstone (Administrator), Jodie Hughes (Service Delivery Manager & Counsellor), Lindsay Cameron-Brown (Administrator) and Cristina Rober...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/03/rekindle-ail-ddeffro-2024.html
BY ALICE READ POWYS CO-ORDINATOR, TIR COED There is no doubt Spring is in the air with blossom bursting and birdsong floating on the breeze. Time to stretch our limbs and make some friends...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/03/spring-into-gardening-with-new-tir-coed.html
BY GUEST AUTHOR JIMI I would like to invite you to play basketball with us. You’re probably thinking “don’t you need to be 7ft tall?” and the truth is no, you really don’t. My na...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/03/llandrindod-lakers-invitation-to-play.html
Linda Hutchings, Brecon peer support worker “DEVELOPING A PARTNERSHIP RESPONSE TO HARM REDUCTION ACROSS POWYS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DRUG AND ALCOHOL CONCERNS.” The first th...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/03/powys-substance-use-harm-reduction-plan.html
Lisa Head is the Communications & Engagement Manager, she has been at the charity Area 43 since 2017. She joined the organisation as a Senior Youth Support Worker, then moved to Centre Manage...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/01/area-43-powys-schools-community-based.html
John Lilley (Individual Representative, Mental Health) and Josh Beynon (Practice Solutions) IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING BY RESPECTING AND EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO INFLUENCE DECISION ...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-future-of-wales-mental-health.html
Plast Off! litter pick - Radnorshire Wildlife Trust volunteers It can be easy at this time of year to retreat into a cosy home or bury ourselves in work. Living through some of the shortest ...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-year-nature-challenges-for-improved.html
SAT 28 – SUN 29 OCTOBER 2023 BY PENNY HALLAS & SUSAN ADAMS The Art Lab was the culmination of A Private Land project, featuring 2 days of co-produced, collaborative art including scul...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-private-land-art-lab-gweithdy-celf.html
BY RACHEL MAFLIN, MANAGER, PLAY RADNOR “CHILDREN NEED THE FREEDOM AND THE TIME TO PLAY; PLAY IS NOT A LUXURY, PLAY IS A NECESSITY.” KAY REDFIELD JAMISON We know that allowing childr...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-value-of-play-to-childrens.html
Gareth Ratcliffe (sat centre) and the team of Hay on Wye Christmas volunteers This seasonal blog post is about the benefits volunteering can bring to so many people and organisations over the...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/12/volunteering-at-christmas-new-year.html
THIS WEEK, 13 – 17 NOVEMBER 2023, IS WELSH CHARITIES WEEK! IT’S A CHANCE TO RECOGNISE AND SHARE THE GOOD WORK OF CHARITIES, SOCIAL ENTERPRISES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITY AND ...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/11/its-welsh-charities-week-lets-celebrate.html
LAWNSIAD SEFYDLIAD DPJ O LYFRAU PLANT HANFODOL DPJ founder Emma's children - Trystan, Mali & Erin Plant Emma, sylfaenydd DPJ - Trystan, Mali ac Erin ON TUESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2023, WORLD MENT...
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WHAT IS WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY? The World Federation for Mental Health was founded in 1948 in the same era as the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, al...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/10/world-mental-health-day-2023-mental.html
BY ANNA POULTON IN-WORK SUPPORT SERVICE COORDINATOR, MID & NORTH POWYS MIND The In-Work Support Service is a new, Welsh Government funded service being delivered by Minds in Powys. It i...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/09/new-in-work-support-service-launched-at.html
SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2023 IS WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY ACROSS THE GLOBE It is 20 years since the first World Suicide Prevention Day was launched in 2003 by the International Association fo...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/09/suicide-prevention-day-2023.html
by Sharon Titley CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONING & TRANSFORMATION TEAM POWYS COUNTY COUNCIL NEST is a planning tool for Regional Partnership Boards across Wales, to support the development of a...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-nest-nyth-framework-supporting.html
by Susan Adams and Penny Hallas WHAT IS A PRIVATE LAND? A Private Land is an art-based research and development project, supported by Arts Council Wales and undertaken in collaboration wit...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-private-land-project-tir-diarffordd.html
BY OWEN GRIFFKIN, MENTAL HEALTH PARTICIPATION OFFICER The Mental Health Service User and Carer Representatives have had an enormously busy summer so far this year. I have been with them all ...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-busy-summer-for-our-mental-health-reps.html
On 6 July my colleague Sue Newham and I attended the second day of this Bevan Commission conference at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. The Bevan Commission is Wales’ leading health an...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-tipping-point-where-next-for-health.html
Life at No.27 is a leading horticultural therapy and mental health counselling provider run as a social enterprise, built with passion at its core and designed to improve lives. The organisat...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/07/life-at-no-27-growing-for-wellbeing.html
Back in 2020 Jess Tanner worked for Brecon & District Mind as an Ecotherapist leading the Green Minds Ecotherapy Project . Jess now works for the Powys charity The Fathom Trust as an Ecother...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-fathom-trust-health-and-healing.html
Owen Griffkin, Mental Health Participation Officer, on a walk with PAVO colleagues There is plenty of evidence that getting active is beneficial to your mental health. The Mental Health Foun...
https://powysmentalhealth.blogspot.com/2023/06/our-team-getting-active-for-positive.html