09 Mar

Create Your Future – Wednesdays

Hi Download the ‘Create Your Future’ flyer here. Kind Regards Kelly Oliver Dougall Executive Director Cygnet North East p: 0191 908 9384  m: 07881294894 a: Suite 2 and 13, Salisbury House, Buddle Street, Wallsend, NE28 6EH w: www.cygnetnortheast.org.uk  e: kelly@cygnetnortheast.org.uk

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04 Mar

Opportunity to participate in research into needs and experiences of parents of children with AD/HD

North East ADHD support group

A thank you and a reminder from Tom Nicholson’s regarding his brilliant new AD/HD research project: Tom asked me to thank everybody who has already contacted him about his research. There is still ‘room’ for more participants, so please contact him if the details below apply. I forgot to mention that his research will be…

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23 Feb

Mind-Craft Therapeutic Social Group – weekly from 8 March 2019

Mind-Craft Therapeutic Social Group, Friday 8 March, 12pm to 3pm. Healthy Awareness, alongside VODA as part of its SAINT project, is starting a new therapeutic social crafting group to allow people to keep their hands busy in a safe and supportive environment. The weekly sessions will be held at SomeOne Cares, 3 Amble Close, North…

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21 Feb

LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month and hate crime training Advocacy Centre North (ACN) has contributed to LGBT History Month NE by delivering sessions about hate crime through Newcastle CVS’s Hate Crime Partnership. Newcastle CVS has already delivered a professional development training session to teachers in the region who wanted to update their practice and take information back…

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15 Feb

Suicide Prevention E-Learning for the VCS

Public Health England and NHS Health Education England have developed an online learning programme to help people feel more confident to talk about suicide. It has been developed for the wider public health workforce including voluntary sector, blue light services, prison staff and prison listeners health and social care.  It was developed by a range of…

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31 Jan

Dedicated NHS mental health care for veterans

Within the NHS, there are a range of mental health services that provide different types of care and treatment. This includes dedicated mental health services for service personnel approaching discharge from the British Armed Forces and veterans. A veteran is anyone who has served for at least one day in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (regular or reserve). These…

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27 Jan

SAINT Little Free Library woodwork session

The SAINT (Social Action in North Tyneside) project has vacancies in their Little Free Library woodwork sessions at Meadow Well Connected’s joinery barn on Wednesdays from 10am to 12 noon. The aim of the project is to create a Little Free Library, which will be installed at Meadow Well Connected, to encourage people in the area…

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12 Jan

Launch of North Tyneside Mental Health Carer’s Forum – 30 January 2019

Hello, As you will probably know, Launchpad North Tyneside coordinates a lively and successful Service User and Survivor Forum that has been running for a few years. We recognise carers need to have a space to meet and be heard too, that’s why in partnership with North Tyneside Carers Centre, we are launching a new…

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21 Dec

Kooth

Kooth is an online mental health counselling and wellbeing service for children and young people in North Tyneside. North Tyneside Council and North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have commissioned XenZone’s Kooth service, giving local young people aged between 11 and 18 access to free online counselling. As well as offering timely access to therapy,…

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10 Dec

Launch of ‘Staying Safe’ Web Site

4 Mental Health launch ‘Staying Safe’ website, offering vital resources for anyone distressed, thinking about suicide or worried about someone they care about. The Staying Safe website is a potentially life-saving resource developed by 4 Mental Health, with invaluable input from international academics, mental health practitioners, people who have survived suicidal thoughts and those personally…

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