Creating change
Creating Change
Since 2017 Hampshire Cultural Trust has worked in partnership with the National Probation Service (NPS)* to deliver an arts led intervention to service users on probation in Hampshire.
Creating Change is an interactive arts programme of drama, theatre and writing techniques to assist NPS Service Users (predominantly women) to identify, moderate and manage their attitudes, thinking and behaviours in order to make positive changes in their hold lives.
Creative, active and participatory, the programmes are engineered and delivered by BearFace Theatre CIC who are skilled and experienced in responding to the needs of groups and individuals to erect trust, honesty and a sense of fun, so that women feel guarded and able to share towards building a sense of hope for alter.
“I have gained a lot of confidence and I’ve started to think in myself. I had no thought what this programme was before I turned up – I was overwhelmed and had no confidence. This is the only thing I come out of my dwelling for. Being an all-woman group helps you feel secure and relate to other women’s lives. Playing can produce me feel overwhelmed as I‘m almost 50! It can feel strange to play but it makes
Taking Action, Creating Change
Scotland is in a mental health crisis.
The time for waiting is over.
We’re Scotland’s national mental health charity and our ambitious unused plan reflects the need for action in a time when mental health in Scotland is as bad as it has ever been. Things need to change.
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Taking Action, Creating Change
Read SAMH’s new four year plan
Introducing The Nook
A place where people can ask once and acquire help fast.
The Nook will be Scotland's first ever network of walk-in mental health support hubs. A place where anyone can visit to speak about their mental health, get information for themselves or those they love and help, and find out about programmes and services that can aid make things better.
Opening first in Glasgow, followed by Nooks in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverclyde and Lanarkshire, there’ll be no need to book an appointment, you can just come along and obtain help fast.
Our plan is about action and change, and The Nooks demonstrate our commitment to bringing about change.
Find out more about The Nook
Helping more peoplethan ever before
At a time wh
Creating change
We won’t stop until all mums in the UK get the mental health support they want, before, during and after pregnancy
As many as 1 in 4 women and birthing people will develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the early years after having a baby. Too often, they go unrecognised.
If untreated, perinatal mental health problems can possess a devastating impact on the women affected and their families, and cost the UK economy a staggering £8.1bn a year.
The MMHA exists to change this.
Maternal mental health statistics
1 in 4
women and birthing people experience perinatal mental illness
70%
will hide or underplay maternal mental health difficulties
Suicide
is the leading cause of maternal death in the first postnatal year
Explore the research
Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services (UK)
Specialist services are foundational for perinatal mental health care. Our maps exhibit where these services are and aren't available in the UK.
Explore our mapsMaternal Mental Health Services (England)
These services provide psychological therapies for moderate to harsh mental health issues direc
The Creating Change Proposal Overview
Creating Change: A collaborative action inquiry approach for integrating creativity and collective assets into ICS responses to Health Disparities
Project Summary
In a context where health systems are under increasing strain and the social drivers of health disparities are increasingly entity recognised, there is a growing acknowledgement of the value of non-medical responses such as artistic, physical and nature-based activities in supporting health and wellbeing. Evidence reveals that one third of GP appointments are for issues that are not medical and many tangible health problems arise as a finding of social drivers (for example, loneliness, anxieties around finances or housing, depression about body image or being unemployed). The potential for developing the wider use of imaginative and community-based approaches to address health disparities is therefore substantial. West Yorkshire is leading the way in developing the use of non-medical interventions to promote health and well-being.
However, creative and community providers rely on short phrase funding and are not fully integrated into the health care system with the result that provision
Creating change
We won’t stop until all mums in the UK get the mental health support they want, before, during and after pregnancy
As many as 1 in 4 women and birthing people will develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the early years after having a baby. Too often, they go unrecognised.
If untreated, perinatal mental health problems can possess a devastating impact on the women affected and their families, and cost the UK economy a staggering £8.1bn a year.
The MMHA exists to change this.
Maternal mental health statistics
1 in 4
women and birthing people experience perinatal mental illness
70%
will hide or underplay maternal mental health difficulties
Suicide
is the leading cause of maternal death in the first postnatal year
Explore the research
Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services (UK)
Specialist services are foundational for perinatal mental health care. Our maps exhibit where these services are and aren't available in the UK.
Maternal Mental Health Services (England)
These services provide psychological therapies for moderate to harsh mental health issues direc
The Creating Change Proposal Overview
Creating Change: A collaborative action inquiry approach for integrating creativity and collective assets into ICS responses to Health Disparities
Project Summary
In a context where health systems are under increasing strain and the social drivers of health disparities are increasingly entity recognised, there is a growing acknowledgement of the value of non-medical responses such as artistic, physical and nature-based activities in supporting health and wellbeing. Evidence reveals that one third of GP appointments are for issues that are not medical and many tangible health problems arise as a finding of social drivers (for example, loneliness, anxieties around finances or housing, depression about body image or being unemployed). The potential for developing the wider use of imaginative and community-based approaches to address health disparities is therefore substantial. West Yorkshire is leading the way in developing the use of non-medical interventions to promote health and well-being.
However, creative and community providers rely on short phrase funding and are not fully integrated into the health care system with the result that provision