Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities – December 2023
December 19, 2023
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for December 23. This page will be updated regularly, so we are delighted you have landed here today and hope that you will keep coming back for updates during the month.
To catch up on our News, Events & Opportunities from November 2023, click here
Lots of the News, Events and Opportunities information will also be appearing in our regular Health and Wellbeing Bulletin. This Bulletin is sent out to all current members of our two Networks: Action for Health and the Mental Health Provider Forum. If you have found this page useful why not join either or both Networks by following these links:
News – we will be using this as an opportunity to pick out particularly important/interesting articles from our most recent Bulletin and/or highlighting information that might be time sensitive.
Events – we will be using this as an opportunity to highlight events of interest to organisations interested in health and care issues including Network events. Most of these will be local Cumbria events but some maybe regional.
Opportunities – we will be using this to highlight health and care focused funding and project opportunities, representative roles and working groups you might want to get involved in and much more. These will focus on Cumbria but may also include regional opportunities.
If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us:
Clare Edwards claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk Holly Ferguson hollyf@cumbriacvs.org.uk
COUNTYWIDE – New support app for those bereaved by suicide
Sidekick by Suicide&Co is an app designed to support those bereaved by suicide, providing both general mental health exercises, and personalised suicide bereavement specific resources.
Navigating suicide related grief can be a lonely and isolating journey and this app can keep provide company, always available on a mobile phone acting as a sidekick to wider support. Everyone’s journey is unique, and what will help some won’t help others, which is why this app includes a variety of resources to help people find the right support for them.
Currently supported by Apple platforms, you can download the free app today.
COUNTYWIDE – Sibling Support’s new website for bereaved siblings
Sibling Support, the charity focused on bereaved siblings, has launched a new website, filled with new content about supporting bereaved siblings: how to help with sleeping problems, eating well and staying fit, along with more information about grief and the support you might need from others.
You can still order free materials and resources from the charity, with everything designed to help a bereaved sibling.
COUNTYWIDE – National mental health charity Rethink’s report about the importance of urgent investment by Integrated Care Systems in community mental health
Rethink’s experience of working in and supporting local systems tells us that it is more important than ever that Integrated Care Systems invest urgently in community mental health. The introduction of the Community Mental Health Framework in 2019 presented a once-in-a-generation opportunity for mental health systems.
With ringfenced transformation funding coming to an end in April 2024 and in a climate of crisis and uncertainty, we need to ensure these changes are embedded.
Four years on from our publication ‘Building communities that care’, we are launching our new report, ‘Building community into the Integrated Care System; A practical guide to developing robust community mental health’, where we:
- Summarise the significant challenges facing mental health care.
- Provide a toolkit of practical, workable solutions to common barriers to transformation.
- Explore the role that the VCSE sector can have in pursuing the four core aims and future goals of ICSs.
Follow this link to download a copy of the report:
CUMBRIA – Mental Health Provider Forum will take place 24.01.2024 10.30am-12.30 – Online via MS Teams
Come and join us for our regular update about all things to do with mental health provision and services.
To date we have confirmation of the following speakers who will be joining us:
- CUMBERLAND Gareth Cavanagh – Healthwatch Cumberland, Men’s Mental Health project
- COUNTYWIDE Rachel Davies, Jason Davenport, William Smedley – Ingeus, Work & Health Programme offer, how it works, who it’s for and how it helps.
To book a place please follow the Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-health-provider-forum-tickets-758973077907?aff=oddtdtcreator
NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Demystifying health and wellbeing research and evaluation: Free introductory workshop
Tuesday 30th January 2024, 10am – 12.30pm, online
VONNE, Cumbria CVS and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) will be providing a free introductory workshop focused on health and wellbeing research and evaluation; what it is, why it’s important and the main approaches used in practice.
This session will aim to help you:
- Understand what research and evaluation are, including their key differences.
- Reflect on the role of the VCSE sector in research and evaluation.
- Understand how to frame a research or evaluation question and what data is needed to answer it.
- Consider how research and evaluation might be used in your own organisation.
- Understand funding routes to support research and evaluation.
- Build awareness of the local research landscape and sources of support.
ALLERDALE/NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Cockermouth & Maryport ICC Meet the third sector event
Friday 19th January 2024 12 noon to 2.30pm (set up from 11.30am)
Cockermouth Community Hospital, Isel Road, Cockermouth CA13 9HT
A great opportunity for third sector groups to connect with colleagues from health and care services and to showcase their services. Third sector groups/organisations can book a table space at the event (see link below).
This event has been requested by statutory sector staff from Cockermouth & Maryport ICC and builds on the highly successful event in Workington. Staff from NCIC (including district nurses, OT’s, physios, specialist respiratory etc services) local GP surgeries (including nurses, care navigators, social prescribers) CNTW, ASC (including Reablement & social work staff), HAWCs, local home care agencies & care homes, NWAS, CHOC etc will all be invited and encouraged to attend by their managers (staff in these categories do not need to book).
We are keen to get 20 or more local organisations (including those who cover West Cumbria or Cumbria) together for the event to showcase their services.
Please follow this link to complete the booking form and reserve your space/table at the event:
SORRY – we are not able to offer any power/sockets for stall holders.
If you would like to know more about the event please contact:
Clare Edwards claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk
Holly Ferguson HollyF@cumbriacvs.org.uk
ALLERDALE/NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Cockermouth & Maryport ICC Meet the third sector
Wednesday 31st January 2024 12 noon to 2.30pm (set up from 11.30am)
Ewanrigg Community Centre (The Centre), Ennerdale Road, Maryport CA15 8HN
A great opportunity for third sector groups to connect with colleagues from health and care services and to showcase their services. Third sector groups/organisations can book a table space at the event (see link below).
We are keen to get 20 or more local organisations (including those who cover West Cumbria or Cumbria) together for the event to showcase their services.
Please follow this link to complete the booking form and reserve your space/table at the event:
SORRY – we are not able to offer any power/sockets for stall holders.
If you would like to know more about the event please contact:
Clare Edwards claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk
Holly Ferguson HollyF@cumbriacvs.org.uk
COUNTYWIDE – GREAT FREE Let’s Talk Bereavement Train the Trainer opportunity
As many of you are aware the Let’s Talk Bereavement Project will be finishing at the end of January 2024 together with the free training currently on offer. The feedback on the impact of the training from some of those who have attended has shown how important this training is to people and is helping to provide more low-level bereavement support in our communities and workplaces.
We are keen to enable others to continue with this training in their own groups and organisations if they feel it would be beneficial. Several groups have used the training for their volunteers and may wish to deliver it themselves as part of volunteer inductions.
The Train the Trainer package would include:-
- Facilitation skills training and particularly the delivery of the Core Skills & Anticipatory Grief in Adults sessions
- Criteria to guide selection of those hoping to deliver these sessions & the supervision/debrief that may be needed for these individuals.
- Crib sheet of advice, guidance, and tips to support delivery of the sessions whether online or in person.
This will all be delivered free of charge as part of the LTB Project.
If you are interested in this option, please do not hesitate to contact me so that I can start to develop what is needed and add Train the Trainer dates to the programme:
Karen DUTTON karen.dutton12@nhs.net
