GMW branching out summer 2016

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Summer 2016

NEWSLETTER OF THE RECOVERY ACADEMY

Branching Out

New recovery publication GMW’s Recovery Academy is looking to produce a new and exciting publication to support our principles of inspiring hope and challenging stigma. A competition was launched in May inviting service users, carers and people with lived experience of mental health difficulties and/or substance misuse problems to submit short pieces of inspiration that can be included in the book. The criteria for these short pieces was: • A short story, poem or piece of art-work; • No more than one side of A4 paper; and

• Be inspirational to others, giving messages of hope and recovery. The closing date for entries was the 30 June and a judging panel including, Claire Watson, Recovery Academy Lead, Maria Clifton, Functional Skills Tutor, and Gerry Halpin MBE, President of the Manchester Academy for Fine Art, met on the 12 July to select 20 pieces to be published in the book. The final publication will be launched as part of World Mental Health Day on the 10 October 2016, which is also the date of our Annual Members Meeting.

Branching Out Recovery Academy Newsletter Summer 2016

Inside: this issue Mayor of Bury praises staff, ............. service users & volunteers

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Young people with psychosis .......... urged to get physical

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Our work with HMP Hindley ...........

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Early onset dementia dining club ..... Launch of service user ...................... engagement strategy

If you’d like to sign up to become a member of our Trust, please visit www.gmw.nhs.uk/members and register online. World Mental Health Day, hosted by the World Federation of Mental Health, is on 10 October each year. The theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day is psychological first aid, which covers both psychological and social support. Page

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