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Take a look at our latest newsletter including some highlights of the month and our resource of the month – ORCHA (app library). For any support or advice relating to news from this month, please get in touch with academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Thank- you to all of those who attended our July lunch and learn session last week. This was held with Dave Clayton – the founder of ‘Wotwududo’ – an educational program to help children discuss scenarios related to a range of mental health issues.
The July newsletter is now available to view and download. Featuring our resource of the month – The Library and Knowledge Hub, details of our lunch and learn session next week and key events happening throughout the month.
Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department. If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The Therapist Aid website features essential tools for mental health professionals; therapy worksheets, audio, activities, and more.
Therapist Aid is dedicated to helping mental health professionals improve their craft by providing free evidence-based education and therapy tools. The resources have been created with clients in mind, which means avoiding jargon, and creating tools that are not only useful in theory, but in practice.
Scan the smart code on the poster or visit the website here. For help with this please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.
KnowledgeShare allows you to create a bespoke service, specifically designed around you and your professional needs/interests. By signing up, you will receive updates directly to your inbox (on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis) to keep you up to date with current awareness and research in your identified field of work.
Sam Tyrer is the Prevention and Engagement Lead here at Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust and is the founder of a service called Change Talks, which offers mental health education to 11-21 year olds. This service has reached over 55,000 young people since the beginning of 2018 and it continues to go from strength to strength.
Sam is also the co-host of a webinar series called the Mental Health Family Hour, which has recently received national recognition from the Prime Minister. The Points of Light Award was given to Sam and his co-host for their work throughout the lockdown to support people’s mental health through their weekly webinar series.
We will be featuring some of Sam’s work over the coming weeks on the library blog and Twitter page as well as some useful resources Sam recommends for helping us all to provide emotional support, both at work and at home.
Please email us at academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk to share your tips or advice for providing emotional support for your friends, relatives and colleagues.