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World Mental Health Day

Shift is due to publish a new Line Managers’ Resource, a handbook for managers about managing mental health problems among staff. The booklet will be published on World Mental Health Day, October 10.

Shift will also be producing a CV/Poster with basic information about mental health and employment for the day.

We will also be announcing the set-up of the Shift ‘Review Panel managed by the Sainsbury’s Centre for Mental Health.

Shift will also be operating stands in a number of Government departments to promote the handbook and raise awareness of ‘Action on Stigma’ in the public sector first.

Employment

1. ‘Action on Stigma’ is an initiative is to help private and public sector employers reduce the impact of mental illness by changing the way they respond to the issue and making a positive commitment to:
* Helping employees maintain their mental wellbeing
* Supporting employees if they develop a problem
* Making sure their employees understand mental health issues
* Not discriminating against an employee or customer because they have a mental health problem.
2. Shift’s ‘Action on Stigma’ Action plan, detailing what other resources will be made available by Shift is due before the end of October.
3. Shift has helped to set-up a Cross-Government Strategy Group for Mental Health and Employment. The group includes colleagues from, Departments of Health, Work and Pensions, Children, Education and Skills, Buisness, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Communities and Local Government. The Health and Safety executive, Health Work and Well-Being, National Social Inclusion Programme and the Office for Disability Issues, are also represented. The group has produced a core-script for use across these departments and is undertaking a scoping/mapping exercise to bring together all of the work undertaken by these organizations that has a significant effect on the number of people with mental health problems at work.

Find out more about Action on Stigma here: http://shift.org.uk/employment

Media

Shift is working to improve media reporting of mental illness.

1. The contract for running the Shift Speakers Bureau – a bank of people willing to talk to the media or at public events about mental health issues – has been extended. More speakers from a BME background are now being recruited.
2. A handbook for the reporting of mental illness will be published at the end of November.
3. Money and support is being made available for the Shift Regional Media teams to help improve media reporting of mental health in the regions.
4. Mind Over Matter II, analysis of media reporting of mental health in 2006, is due to be published this Autumn.
5. Shift has engaged Forsters Agency to do some PR work with the media in relation to the reporting of mental health and suicide – this involves promoting the handbook and tackling the issues of violence and suicide.
6. Shift is in the process of commissioning two new projects: one looking at media research around the coverage of people from BME communities; and another using the arts to promote understanding of mental health issues within BME communities.

Find out more about our work with the media here: http://shift.org.uk/media

Get Involved

The Shift website lists a number of ways in which you can help us with the work that we do.

To find out more, please visit: http://www.shift.org.uk/getinvolved

Contact Shift

If you want to get in touch with Shift, you can email us at shift@csip.org.uk or call us on 0845 223 5447

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