Mental Health and Substance Use Engagement and Involvement

Dundee Healthy Minds Network

Dundee Healthy Minds Network is an engagement platform for people with experience of mental health challenges and their unpaid carers. Participants contribute to a collective voice, which influences the development of local mental health services and supports.

The group strives to ensure that people with lived experience of mental health difficulties have opportunities to be involved, either formally, or informally, in shaping issues that affect their lives. This includes involvement in planning, delivering and evaluating mental health services and supports in Dundee.

Our current work includes:

• Contributing to Tayside Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
• Contributing to local Mental Health Strategic Planning
• Evening and Weekend drop ins Test of Change
• Developing an Engagement and Involvement strategy and framework
• Growing and diversifying the membership of Healthy Minds Network

Our recent work includes:

• Healthy Minds Network Response to Living Life Well (Easy Read)
• Healthy Minds Network Co-Producing Crisis Response Pathways
• Healthy Minds Network Response to Covid-19
• Dundee Healthy Minds Network response to Listen. Learn. Change
• Healthy Minds Network Evening and Weekend Test of Change

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For further information please contact
Aled Bartley-Jones, Manager, Mental Health and Substance Use Engagement and Involvement
T: 01382 305700
E: admin@dvva.scot

Dundee Healthy Minds Network Drop-ins

Our regular HMN drop-in provides an informal and relaxed place for members to discuss and influence local mental health services and supports. In response to Covid-19 we have had to suspend our face-to-face drop ins and are instead meeting online using the video platform ‘Zoom’.

Our drop ins, whether in person or online, are a safe and non-judgemental space for people to meet and socialise with likeminded individuals. The drop-in typically includes a social element, plus a more formal part such as a meeting, event, or audience with a guest speaker. Topics are chosen by HMN members. The group run the drop-in in a co-productive way and our members influence the programme and everything that we do. Drop-ins are open to any adult who experiences mental health challenges and has registered with HMN.

To join one of our zoom meetings we will need to send you a link. Please get in contact if you would like to find out more and take part in our online drop in. We have put together a short guide all about zoom and how to join a meeting.

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Third Sector Mental Health Networking

We support third sector mental health and wellbeing organisations to be active participants in the planning, review, and delivery of mental health services and supports in Dundee.

The Third Sector Mental Health and Wellbeing Forum provides a focus for connecting voluntary sector mental health organisations across Dundee. Our meetings are held monthly.

The Forum and its members are influential in the following groups;

• Dundee Mental Health Strategic Planning and Commissioning Group.
• Dundee Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning Group
• Tayside Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy groups

We seek to support cross sector collaboration and third sector leadership of developments and initiatives that improve the mental health and wellbeing of people living in Dundee. In this capacity we chair the Making Recovery Real in Dundee Partners Group and employ the development worker to support all strands of work across this partnership initiative.

We maintain an online notice board on Padlet as a shared space for the Third Sector to share information. Please check it regularly for the latest events, training and funding opportunities. Mental Health Third Sector Forum (padlet.com)

Making Recovery Real in Dundee

Making Recovery Real in Dundee is a multi-partner cross sector collaboration supported by Scottish Recovery Network. It aims for a shift in power at all levels towards people with lived experience of mental health problems. The main areas of activity are sharing recovery stories and growing and supporting peer recovery in mental health.

Making Recovery Real: ALLIANCE Webinar We were delighted to be asked to be part of the ALLIANCE Live series. This 30 minute webinar explores how the Making Recovery Real approach offers a different way of working together. It does not replace the traditional NHS treatment route but invites formal services to walk alongside local people, organisations and initiatives to design and deliver sustainable mental health support. With contributions from various people involved in the successful Making Recovery Real in Dundee partnership, Scottish Recovery Network’s Acting Director, Louise Christie chairs the webinar and Q&A. Find out more and download free resources at www.scottishrecovery.net.

Peer Recovery Network Co-design Report 🡒

Follow us on Making Recovery Real in Dundee Facebook Page 🡒

Making Recovery Real 6 Years On Podcast

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Mental Health and Substance Use Resources:

Mental Health Organisations in Dundee

For information about community-based services and activities in Dundee that can promote and support wellbeing, or help with some of the causes of poor mental wellbeing, visit “My Wellbeing”.

Key Documents

• Independent Inquiry into mental health services in Tayside -2020 “Trust and Respect”
• Listen, Learn, Change
• The Work of the Dundee Drugs Commission