News Release, 8 August 2003
The Mental Health Foundation launches the Strategies for Living trainers information pack to put the programme's groundbreaking research findings into practice in mainstream mental health services.
Having been successfully piloted with both practitioners and service users, the pack aims to give mainstream mental health services the ability to incorporate the lessons and findings from Strategies for Living within the policy and practice of their services.
Strategies for Living enables and empowers mental health service users and survivors to undertake high quality research into people's methods of coping with mental distress. The findings from this work are essential to developing broader and more effective mental health services in the UK. Later this year the Foundation will be announcing the finding from its most recent programme of support for user-led research projects from around the UK.
Toby Williamson, Head of Strategies for Living at the Mental Health Foundation, said: "Enabling mainstream mental health services to engage with the important findings and lessons from Strategies for Living will allow both service users and mental health staff to explore a wide range of strategies for coping with mental health problems.
The aims of Strategies for Living include developing an evidence base and awareness of alternative ways of living and coping with mental distress and promoting a more holistic view of mental health and mental well being. It also enables service users and survivors to be in control of research in mental distress rather being the passive subjects of research."
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