Open Mental Health Champions
We are looking for people from all walks of life to spread the word about Open Mental Health, to help your friends, family, neighbours or colleagues get help when they need it. We particularly welcome people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, or people from communities that might struggle to get what they need from mental health services.
Help give your community a voice to shape mental health services
This is a great opportunity to help people you know find out about mental health support in your area, as well as having your say about how services should work.
You don’t need any special skills or experience to be an Open Mental Health Champion.
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What is Open Mental Health and why do we need Champions?
What will Champions do?
- Share your experiences and ideas to help improve Open Mental Health services.
- If you find a problem, like a reason why someone can’t or won’t access Open Mental Health, you can feed it back. You could go to Open Mental Health Locality meetings, where the services come together to share news, commissioners’ meetings and conferences.
- Tell people about Open Mental Health.
- This could be talking to a group, or just a casual chat with one person.
- Give out leaflets and information with the contact details.
- Talk to people about the Five Ways to Wellbeing.
- This helps people look after their mental health. It can be done in person and on social media.
- Talk about your own mental health experience, and represent your community.
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How to get involved
To find out more or apply online visit the Spark a Change Volunteer Portal or contact Helen Fielden, Open Mental Health Community Engagement Project Manager on helen.fielden@sparksomerset.org.uk, or 07535 800944.