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📢 Women's Priorities for 2024/25 📢

All women across Scotland are invited to participate... Your voice matters!

As we anticipate the release of the Programme for Government 2024-2025, we are organising multiple online roundtables focused on specific themes to gather your insights and expectations for the upcoming year from the Scottish Government.

Join us for these important discussions via Zoom:

Social Care
🗓️ Tuesday 23rd July
⏰11.30am - 1.00pm

Employment
🗓️ Tuesday 30th July
⏰ 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Justice & Crime
🗓️ Thursday 1st August
⏰ 2.00pm - 1.30pm

🔗 More information: scottishwomensconvention.org/events

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With one in three initial assessment appointments missed at Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team (CMHT) appointments, we are going to be working on a collaborative project with NHS Highland to better understand the reasons behind those statistics.

With the support of Inclusion Scotland’s We Can Work Internship Programme, we are delighted to offer someone with lived experience the opportunity to become a paid Peer Project Intern.

The Peer Project Intern will lead the “Community Experience Matters” project, which aims to reduce missed appointments at Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT). Responsibilities include engaging with people accessing or requiring services and NHS staff to identify and implement solutions, focusing on CMHT’s services in Badenoch, Strathspey, and Nairnshire.

This role offers development in lived experience leadership, project management, community engagement, and collective advocacy.

Interested? You can learn more about the role and how to apply by clicking the link below.

https://bit.ly/PeerProjectInternshipApplicationPack

DREAM, PLAN, LIVE!!! Learn more about Person Centred Planning Dr Danielle Farrell from Your Options Understood has developed a new Person Centred Planning programme called Dream, Plan, Live!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women, with 1 in 8 women in Scotland developing the disease at some point during their lifetime. Evidence shows that routine screening in those between the ages of 50 and 70 is the best way to detect cancer early. Those who are aged 71-74 (up until your 75th birthday) and those who have previously had breast cancer and have been discharged from yearly follow up mammograms are welcome to remain in the screening programme but are not automatically invited and are required to make their appointments through the screening centre.

Breast screening can detect tiny cancers when they are often less advanced and easier to treat.

The most recent figures on annual uptake show that 23.2% of eligible women in NHS Highland area are not attending their screening invitation.

Do you live in Edinburgh or the Lothians?

Why not join our next Family Dog session on Tuesday 22 November 2022?

This session is open to those affected by dementia and with so many practical tips for your pet dog, or the pet dog you are aiming to get, it could really make a difference and comes thoroughly recommended by previous attendees.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest or find out more details.

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Fingers crossed more people book onto our information session on. Thursday 29th October: please share

Looking after ourselves is important however being there for others is also key to a balanced life. There are lots of people in our communities who are just looking for a wee bit of your time so that they don’t feel so alone. People who volunteer for this role always say they get so much joy from supporting others and are delighted they can fit visits in without feeling overstretch. Why not get in touch to book your place and find out if this is a role that would suit you. 😀
Adult Suppirt and Protection is at 12 with the information day starting at 13.pp until 17.00. This is all the training you need initially to be matched with someone: [email protected]

Do you know someone who would benefit from a break like this?

VOCAL Midlothian has a small number of three-night breaks available at Hawthorne Brae Cottage in Blair Atholl. The cottage is situated in a beautiful rural location in Perthshire and sleeps up to six people. The breaks on offer will be weekend and mid-week and available in late November and early December 2022.

The focus of these breaks will be on improving health and well-being. We are particularly keen to hear from carers who may be experiencing a difficult time and have not benefited from VOCAL’s Wee Breaks programme within the past twelve months.

These breaks are limited, so priority will be given to those carers who have not benefited from Wee Breaks support previously.

To find out more about the breaks available or to request a break, please visit our Wee Breaks website: https://weebreaks.com/event/perthshire-cottage-breaks/

Do you support people living with long-term conditions who want to continue working but are facing challenges or barriers to this? If so, this study by Researchers from Aberdeen University may be of interest to you. They are looking for people to take part in a focus group, see the flyer below for more information.

Should make for interesting reading

Homepage | Scottish Mental Health Law Review The final report of the Scottish Mental Health Law Review represents the product of over three years work in the first major review of mental health and capacity law in Scotland in over 20 years. It includes direct quotes from many of the voices of lived experience (including unpaid carers) as well....

Definitely food for thought. However well intentioned it is easy to perpetuate segregation by assuming that people who share one issue e.g. loneliness, mental or physical health issues, age etc. will naturally want to spend time together.
The way that services are accessed or funded can also feed into this as 'gatekeeping' and eligibility is often targeted at people that fit into particular groups. We can only hope to change this if we move away from systems focussed on deficits to one that encourages and supports individuals and communities to recognise, value and build on their skills, connections and resources.

Sounds like a lovely idea and a good resource to be aware of

Support people affected by dementia, today Donate today to bring this incredible programme to people across Scotland.

This looks like a useful resource

The Toolkit – ProjectChange It is self-led resource about exploring how you feel about yourself and how you feel within your community. It’s designed to help you use your voice powerfully, in a way that suits you. This toolkit is all about you.

These interactive sessions look like they will provide an opportunity for anyone with an interest in supporting children and young people to take control and make the very best of self directed support

Our popular series of online lunchtime sessions 'Sharing Practice, Finding Solutions for Children, Young People and Families' are BACK and open to anyone with an interest in making self-directed support work well for children, young people, and families. These interactive sessions are held online on the last Thursday of the month using Microsoft teams from 12:00 pm (noon) – 1:30 pm with the aim of sharing practice that works well, finding solutions to common issues and making useful connections with others. The next two sessions before we take a short summer break will take place on the following dates:

Thursday 26th May 2022
Thursday 30th June 2022.
You can check out the flyer below for further information, or contact us directly at: [email protected]

Day 2 - You might not see it, but loneliness is as bad as 15 ci******es a day. Why not reach out to someone from a different age group today to build more intergenerational connections during .

Do you know anyone that may be interested? Sounds like a really useful opportunity

Inspiring Scotland and Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities invite you to Our Future Leaders! This 12-week course will help people with learning disabilities to develop practical leadership skills. There's still time to apply, just visit www.inspiringscotland.org.uk or scld.org.uk for more info!

Such an important issue, there's so much more we can all do and this resource sounds useful

BBC Scotland - The L.A.B Scotland, Things Teachers Should Know About Young Carers Some young carers send a message to teachers.

Learn how to combat this exclusion in the workplace Conscious disability inclusion strategies for DE&I and HR leaders | Texthelp

The Herbert Protocol has been designed to help the police find a vulnerable person e.g. someone with dementia quickly and safely if they go missing. Families are asked to download the Herbert Protocol form and provide information such as places of importance to them, often visited places, health issues and places they have been found in the past if reported missing. The form also asks for details such as what the person was wearing when last seen, whether they have a mobile phone with them at the point when the missing person report is being made.

A real benefit of this process is that it provides an opportunity for families, with input from the person, to pull together the bulk of information in advance rather than at a point of crisis. This will help to ensure the person is found quickly and safely.

We want to help keep vulnerable people with as safe as possible, so we're showing support for 's national implementation of the . You can download a protocol form on their website👉 http://ow.ly/bRpD50GbdF1

This sounds like a useful resource

Check out the Personal Assistant (PA) Employer Handbook for quality information, support and resources to help understand the role and responsibilities of PA employers.

Explore the handbook on a PC or laptop here: https://paemployer.handbook.scot/

Could be a really useful addition to your professional development

Free Children's Mental Health Online Course Gain a detailed understanding and offer appropriate support via a free online course.

There is much that we can all do to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination.

Here are a range of resources that could be useful in taking this forward

If you work in health and social care, or know someone who does, we've got a whole toolbox of resources to help you tackle mental health stigma and discrimination in your practice 🏥

From videos featuring health and social care professionals and people with experience of mental health problems to training materials, whether you have three minutes or three hours, we've got something for you.

➡️ https://buff.ly/2ZQLtQb

Looks like a useful learning opportunity for 2022

*FREE* Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism *Equivalent to level 5 in Scotland

An important area that would definitely benefit from greeter awareness and understanding

Join our upcoming training on BME, LGBT+ & Domestic Abuse on 26th November 2021 from 11:00am to 12:30pm.

Booking through Eventbrite only: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakti-womens-aid-bme-lgbt-domestic-abuse-tickets-136979193455?aff=erelexpmlt

Shakti Women's Aid awareness-raising webinar for any practitioner or interested individual

Please share and support ✨

Sounds like an interesting and useful event

Join us on 18 January as we present a step-by-step guide to setting up a Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPO), looking at the challenges involved and how to gather support and maintain momentum.

Register here: http://ow.ly/nV8h50GOQeb

Sounds like a useful session

Just a wee reminder that our next Winter Session for the 'Sharing Practice, Finding Solutions for Children, Young People and Families, will be taking place on Thursday, 25th November 2021 from 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm. If you would be interested in attending, please contact us at: [email protected] to register and receive the link. 😊

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A dyslexia friendly destination means that children and adults with dyslexia have good access to technology that can help them. These videos from Angus Council TV on how to use the free built-in accessibility tools on iPads, Chromebooks and in GLOW to support learning are very useful. https://bit.ly/2NsVzAp