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- Alzheimer Scotland
- Bipolar Fellowship Scotland
- Breathing Space
- Centre for Change and Innovation
- Depression Alliance Scotland
- HeadsUpScotland
- Highland Users Group (HUG)
- ICP Toolkit
- ISD Improving Mental Health...
- Look Ok... Feel Crap?
- Mental Health Collaborative
- Mental Health Foundation Scotland
- Mental Welfare Commission for...
- NHS 24
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- PIRAMHIDS
- Penumbra
- Principles into Practice Network
- Royal College of Psychiatrists...
- SANE
- Samaritans
- Scottish Association for Mental...
- Scottish Development Centre for...
- See Me
- Talking2Ourselves
- The British Psychological Society
- The Dementia Services...
- The Richmond Fellowship Scotland
- The Scottish Independent...
- VOX (Voices Of eXperience)
- Well? Mental Health and...
A national charity that helps people with dementia, their carers and families throughout Scotland, providing a wide range of services, via its national office and a large number of local and regional branches.
www.alzscot.org
The aims of Bipolar Fellowship Scotland are to provide information, support and advice for people affected by bipolar disorder/manic depression and all who care, to promote self-help throughout Scotland, to inform and educate about the illness and the organisation.
www.bipolarscotland.org.uk
Breathing Space is a free and confidential phoneline service for any individual, who is experiencing low mood or depression, or who is unusually worried and in need of someone to talk to.
www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk
The Centre for Change and Innovation has been established to provide NHS staff with practical support and expertise to improve patient care.
www.cci.scot.nhs.uk
Depression Alliance Scotland provides information and support both for anyone affected by depression and their friends and family.
www.dascot.org
National Project for Childrens and Young People's Mental Health
www.headsupscotland.co.uk
HUG is a network of users of mental health services who live in the Highlands.
www.hug.uk.net
An iMHIP has been developed to catalyse the multiple changes needed to improve the type, content, system and use of care information to support:
1) the integrated provision of individual - centred care
2) clinical governance and quality improvement
3) public health, performance management, strategic planning and research.
www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=1746&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&
Look OK…Feel Crap? is a campaign run by Depression Alliance Scotland (DAS) to raise awareness of low mood and depression among young adults living in Scotland and to encourage them to seek help.
www.lookokfeelcrap.org
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/Delivery-Improvement/1835/74
The Mental Health Foundation is a UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities. Its website contains the latest news and events on mental health issues, as well as information on problems, treatments and strategies for living with mental distress.
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland is an independent organisation set up by Parliament with the responsibility of protecting the welfare of people with mental disorder (including learning disabilities and dementia) in Scotland.
www.mwcscot.org.uk
Confidential telephone health advice and information service for people in Scotland
www.nhs24.com
Positive and Innovative Resources - A Mental Health Interactive Database (Scotland)
www.piramhids.com
Penumbra is a leading Scottish voluntary organisation working in the field of mental health. It provides an extensive range of person-centred support services for adults and young people.
www.penumbra.org.uk
A good practice forum for people connected with mental health law is now live.
On the website you will find case study reviews, examples of good practice and individual perspectives on key issues. All of this from people who have experience of providing or using services themselves.
www.principlesintopractice.net
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
SANE is a UK mental health charity concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness. It has a national telephone helpline, SANELINE, which offers support and information to callers throughout the UK.
www.sane.org.uk
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
www.samaritans.org.uk
The Scottish Association for Mental Health operates a range of services across Scotland for people with mental health problems. It also strives to influence public policy as it affects people with mental health problems.
www.samh.org.uk
The Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health aims to improve mental health and well being for individuals and communities in Scotland and enhance services and supports for people with mental health problems. They do this by providing services that offer training, information sharing and learning, research and evaluation, support for change and development.
www.sdcmh.org.uk
The 'see me' campaign was launched in October 2002 to challenge stigma and discrimination around mental ill-health in Scotland.
www.seemescotland.org.uk
A website written and designed by young people to provide help and information on mental health issues to young people who are either having difficulties themselves, or are worried about a friend or relative or just want to know more about mental wellbeing.
www.talking2ourselves.com
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is the representative body for psychologists and psychology in the UK. As a professional organisation it is responsible for overseeing, in the public interest, psychology and psychologists.
www.bps.org.uk
The Dementia Services Development Centre, at the University of Stirling, exists to extend and improve services for people with dementia and their carers.
www.dementia.stir.ac.uk
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland provides a wide range of support services enabling individuals with mental health and/or learning disabilities to live as independently as possible within their own homes and communities.
www.trfs.org.uk
The Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance: provides information, advice and support to local advocacy organisations; undertakes training on advocacy and related issues for agencies in the statutory and voluntary sectors; and ensure the 'voice' of the advocacy movement is heard at a national level to influence current and future practice and policy.
www.siaa.org.uk
VOX seeks to take a leading role in creating an environment where mental health problems are not a barrier to participating in any aspect of Scottish society.
www.voxscotland.org.uk
'Well?' is dedicated to communicating the work of the Scottish Executive's National Programme for Improving the Mental Health and Well-Being of Scotland's Population, which was launched in October 2001.
www.wellscotland.info
