www.hertsdirect.org Population Mental Health Elected Members and Officers working together: Hertfordshire’s story Prof Jim McManus, Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council [email protected]October 11 th 2016 National Mental Health Elected Member Seminar
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Population Mental HealthElected Members and Officers working together: Hertfordshire’s story
Prof Jim McManus,
Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council
• Over 127 different projects run by ten district councils with county council public health funding
• Over 30 mental health projects
• St Albans – social prescribing pilot with GPs for mental health
• Every district has at least one MH project
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Herts Public Health Employers’ Offer
• Free training and services to Herts Employers
• 1000 MH Champions in workplaces trainedContinues till 2017
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3. The Year of Mental Health
• The Hertfordshire Health & Wellbeing Board declared the period between its annual conferences July 2015 and July 2016 the Hertfordshire Year of Mental Health.
• A countrywide initiative intended to:
– Tackle mental health stigma and discrimination– Help people get better access to treatment and care– Gain parity of access to treatment for both mental and physical
health
• Hertfordshire Year of Mental Health soughtto inspire and motivate people from across the county to take a few simple steps to help challenge mental health discrimination, and to improve the lives of those of us with mental health problems.
• Everyone in Hertfordshire can help create a society where mental health problems are not hidden.
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The Year of Mental HealthJuly 2015-July 2016
• https://youtu.be/yuSZuBgFJ7g
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Elected Member Leadership
• 14 Member Champions• 510 Pledges to the Year of
Mental Health• Newsletter• 12 Mental Health Focused
Events• 53 new partnerships with
grassroot through to large scale Mental Health focused organisations
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Key Highlights
• Themed activities for each month with focused activity: Veteran Mental Health GP engagement, Suicide Prevention Training and Youth Mental Health Training
• Legacy of the Year of Mental Health through a Mental Health Directory and Network
• Member Champion Mental Health Bite Size Briefing
• Year of Mental Health newsletter (monthly release)
• Year of Mental Health engagement with a range of events including : ‘Feel Good February, Health and Wellbeing Board Stakeholder Events, Hertfordshire Dementia Conference, Carers in Herts Community Events.
• Dementia Film Screening of ‘Inside Out of Mind’ to 170 delegates including practitioners and community representatives.
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4. Getting to a Systems Approach...
• Report to health and wellbeing board kicking off a programme and articulating system must dos