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I know Gwent Archives have done some interesting work in this area, including a project involving members of the local community with mental health issues researching the history of psychiatric hospitals: links to a report from the BBC and a couple of published articles are below:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623730.2014.995423
Kind regards,
Naeem
We’ve joined a ‘social prescribing’ network to offer assistance with just this kind of issue – helps with getting resources and making community links too.
Best,
Gil
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My first thought in how archives can and have managed to help tackle mental health and wellbeing and related issues (isolation, loneliness, grief) is via volunteering.
Many of our volunteers have commented on how working with us gives them a sense of purpose, helps them keep or learn new skills, gets them out of the house, helps them make friends and contacts and helps keep them active.
Where volunteers have greater needs e.g. dementia sufferers there may be a resource issue but this can often be helped via carers who accompany the volunteers.
Suicide prevention could probably fit well into the range of issues that volunteering can potentially, at least in part, help tackle and prevent.
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Subject: A serious Friday thought
Dear Colleagues
I was listening to Radio 4 with a representative of a key mental health charity talking about their role in bringing about the appointment of a Minister for the Prevention of Suicide. He talked about how they had been putting forward a range of solutions and priorities to the government for some years including the role of culture. So, just a thought that archives can have a role in this, indeed a central role when one considers their capacity to prove and support identity - quite apart from the innate pleasure of working with archives and the social impact of being alongside others doing the same thing. I appreciate that some of you may already be working in this area. I have heard about other areas of activity, e.g in dementia treatment and loneliness, but I have not heard of anyone working in the area of suicide prevention (though who knows, some of you may have had an effect without ever realising it). Has anyone got experience in this?
Regards
Elizabeth
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