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We have redesigned our website to be more informative and easier to navigate. It has new sections on members Countries, Training and Development, new Membership opportunities. We also have new membership subscriber sections including a Library of Resources and Materials. We have linked our website to our social media platforms at FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube. We welcome … Read more

Study Visit and International School Open Day: Good Practice in Mental Health Services Change the thinking, the culture and the practice Facilitated by Slotsvaegets Lyngby and The IMHCN Hosted by: Slotsvaengets Lyngby Taarbaek Municipality Copenhagen 16th and 17th April 2015 The IMHCN facilitated a study visit to Slotsvaegets Lyngby that included members of IMHCN, representatives from; … Read more

Making Sense of Voices: A One Day Awareness and Information Day For and About Young People Who Hear Voices held in Carmarthen on the 14th of April 2015. The day was led by the internationally acclaimed trainer Rachel Waddingham who is a voice hearer herself and managed the Voice Collective project between 2009 and 2015. … Read more

The first meeting to develop a Whole Person Whole Life Recovery Community Programme including a Recovery House took place over two days at the San Giovanni Campus on the 7th and 8th March 2015. Over 60 Clients, family members, Trieste Mental Health Service staff and workers from cooperatives attended. The meeting was facilitated by John Jenkins, … Read more

Subjectivity and institutions: from Franco Basaglia to recovery Roberto Mezzina Keynote speech at the INTERNATIONAL MEETING “Franco Basaglia’s vision: mental health and complexity of real life. Practice and research”, Trieste, 9-­‐12 December, 2014. WHO CC for Research and Training in MH Trieste -­‐ Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari n.1 “Triestina” Today, the recovery movement seems to … Read more

Network member HPFT have a number of initiatives to promote recovery oriented practice in their acute settings. They have two inpatient wards where they are trialling strategies to reduce the use of restrictive practice and actively promoting specific recovery oriented practice. This is a co-produced and co-delivered initiative called Making our Services Safer. Service users … Read more

Since our successful regional conference in April 2014 hosted and funded by Alternative Futures Group (AFG) we have continued to meet to discuss and plan future programmes of work. In November 2014 IMHCN met with representatives of AFG, Making Space and 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. At the meeting we agreed to identify a … Read more

A programme of Learning Sets has been running in the City of Plymouth and the County of Cornwall during 2014. We have been working with our partners Plymouth Community Healthcare (CIC), Plymouth Mind and the Plymouth Mental Health Network in facilitating a programme of Action Learning Sets for mental health practitioners, service users,  family members and … Read more