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Advocating for compassion and better treatment: transforming the coroner’s inquest system for those bereaved by suicide
By sounddelivery
Posted on January 23, 2024

Ellie Hatto is the founder and voice of Beside Yourself CIC, a lived experience-led social enterprise focused on talking openly about life after suicide. This thought piece aims to amplify the voices of those who have lost a loved one to suicide, shining a light and raising awareness of their subpar experiences within the flawed coroner’s inquest system. Ellie urges individuals and organisations involved in shaping the system to reflect on how their actions or inaction adversely affect those bereaved.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health, storytelling, Suicide Prevention
Mothers are too afraid to ask for help
By sounddelivery
Posted on September 29, 2023

Maggie Gordon-Walker, is the founder of Mothers Uncovered, a Sussex peer-led organisation that supports women in matrescence (the transition to motherhood) with creative groups led by past participants. In this blog, she explains the mental health difficulties facing mothers.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health, mothers, storytelling, Suicide Prevention
It’s time to count children who lose a parent to suicide in early years
By sounddelivery
Posted on September 25, 2023

Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. Anna’s dad, Ralph, took his own life when she was nine and that loss had a profound impact on both her own life and the lives of those around her. In her Mumsnet’s guest post, she explains her campaign, Time to Count. This campaign urges the government to count the number of children who are impacted by the suicide of a parent or primary caregiver in the UK.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health, Suicide beareavement, Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention: A Bereaved Heart’s Perspective
By sounddelivery
Posted on September 8, 2023

Sam Southern is a Lead Suicide Prevention and Bereavement Coordinator at Empowerment Charity in Blackpool. As a dedicated mother of five, Sam has faced adversity, including the tragic loss of her husband to suicide in June 2020. This experience has driven her passion and commitment to raise awareness and offer hope to those who may be struggling. In this guest blog she talks about approaches to suicide prevention, sharing her experience.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health, Suicide Prevention
Steve Arnott AKA Redeye Feenix asks: Do I Need A Diagnosis?
By sounddelivery
Posted on May 26, 2023

Founder of the Hull Beats Bus, Steve Arnott AKA Redeye Feenix, tells his journey of self-discovery and healing and asks the question: does he need a mental health diagnosis?

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health
Meet our 2023 Spokesperson Programme Cohort
By sounddelivery
Posted on May 17, 2023

Today we are excited to announce our new cohort who will be taking part in our 2023 Spokesperson Programme for grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice and inequality.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags Care system, Kinship Care, lived experience, mental health, Suicide Prevention
‘Every Day is an Awareness Day When you are Living with Bipolar Disorder’
By sounddelivery
Posted on March 30, 2023

Beth Thomas is the Mentoring Scheme Manager and Safeguarding Director at Our Place Support in the West Midlands. She has a MSC in Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing. Here she shares her experience and insights on Bipolar Disorder, what has made a difference for her, and her hopes for change. Beth is part of the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags Bipolar Disorder, mental health
Steve Arnott: How We Can Support Our Young People this Children’s Mental Health Week
By sounddelivery
Posted on February 10, 2023

Steve Arnott, Founder and CEO of Beats Bus Records in Hull, explains how creativity through arts and music could be the key to supporting children’s mental health. For Children’s Mental Health Week 2023, Steve shares the process and thinking behind Beats Bus Records and how they support young people.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags arts, children's mental health, creativity, mental health, music
Why it’s Time To Count children bereaved by parental suicide
By sounddelivery
Posted on December 7, 2022

Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. Anna’s dad, Ralph, took his own life when she was nine and that loss had a profound impact on both her own life and the lives of those around her. Here Anna talks about her Churchill Fellowship Report and her new BBC Radio 4 Four Thought sharing her own experience and speaking on why we need better support for children and young people who lose a parent or primary caregiver to suicide. And why that should start with counting them.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health, Suicide beareavement
As South Asian women, are services hearing our voices?
By sounddelivery
Posted on November 22, 2022

Shaffia Khatun is the Co-Founder and Director of SKY Positive Minds, an award-winning charity that works to empower vulnerable women, girls and children from the local community who have experienced domestic abuse, sexual abuse or have been affected by mental health or other challenges. Here she explores why services are not hearing the voices of South Asian women.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags mental health

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