Ben’s focus is around the potential for education and health to work more collaboratively and strategically to improve outcomes for children: as Headteacher of Kensington Primary School, he has worked closely with Healthy Schools, with the result that Kensington became…
Mavis works and volunteers for a range of community sector, informal and statutory organisations and agencies to develop innovative and community-based projects, programmes and user-/ patient-led initiatives. She sees it as her responsibility to voice her opinion and help remove…
Sue is passionate about making links within the community. Alongside other volunteering roles, Sue spends her time representing the views of carers of autistic people in Newham. She creates links between carers and seeks out carers whose views are not…
Sabrina has lived in Newham for 10 years. She worked in mental health in the NHS until she was diagnosed as autistic and left her career due to significant burnout. She has found that many people, herself included, find it…
Newham Council is supporting Children’s Mental Health Week this week: 5-11 February 2024. This is a national campaign, led by the charity Place2Be, which prioritises improving children’s mental health. In 2022, 18% of children aged 7–16 had a probable mental…
Are you helping to support young people’s mental health? If so, this is a great opportunity to have your say about the communities and activities that young people rely on for their wellbeing. The public health team is working with…
November/December 2023 Thrive LDN has been working with Healthy Dialogues to offer three pre-recorded training sessions about mental health and the impact of financial hardships. The training is aimed at frontline staff and community champions. Across the training, you will…
November/December 2023 The mental health charity Mind is running free, online workshops to help improve residents’ mental health and prevent deaths by suicide this winter. The workshops will look into exploring perceptions and feelings towards Christmas, learning about suicide prevention,…
November/December 2023 The Well Newham Website is a fantastic resource for everyone living and working in Newham to find information and support for their health and wellbeing. The website links through to the Well Newham Directory which contains hundreds of local…
