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mental health
Health
Meath Partnership closing the gaps in community-based mental health
Funding for pilot wellness hub ends, but mental health work must continue
Empowerment
New online tool aims to improve access to mental health supports
The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has launched a new Online Youth Mental Health Signposting Tool, which is designed to provide young people, parents and youth workers easy access to mental health resources and services locally.
Planning & Governance
An Icelandic solution to an Irish problem
During the 1990s, Iceland had some of the highest figures for substance use among young people in Europe. The alarming statistics sparked the development of the groundbreaking Icelandic Model for Primary Prevention of Substance Use, which has since been implemented in 30 other countries, including Ireland.
Empowerment
We go to the doctor for a medical prescription, but sometimes it’s a social prescription we need
Social prescribers in 30 locations nationwide help people struggling with social isolation to take part in activities and get out and about
Income & Employment
IPS is good news for expanding mental health supports
David Doran worked until recently as an employment specialist with County Kildare Leader Partnership. He provided a new kind of support service for people living with mental illness who wish to gain employment.
Equality & Rights
“My second name puts me in the spotlight, I am tarred with a heavy brush.”
Traveller men of various ages, employment statuses and circumstances spoke to researchers in Donegal about their experiences on accommodation, education, employment and sudden bereavement, and how these experiences affected their mental health.
Health
Every county should have a SoSaD project
No better person than a volunteer who benefitted from a project to explain its importance. Lee MacMalighe put it plainly:
“Save Our Sons and Daughters...
Health
MENTAL HEALTH: Communities trying but can’t fill all the gaps, says Mick Kearns
In responding to mental health needs, Lisheen House in Skibbereen in West Cork is a great example of what communities can achieve by themselves. However, the gaps are glaring in the country's mental health services. As co-founder Mick Kearns tells Hannah Ní Shúilleabháin, independent community-based, volunteer-managed services cannot fill all the gaps. Rather than wait however, Lisheen House is expanding its service to two more towns.
