Thursday 5th March
University Mental Health Day brings together the university community to make mental health a university-wide priority and create ongoing year round change to the future of student mental health.
For more information see here
Tag: Mental Health
Eating Disorders Awareness Week
2nd – 8th March
It is Eating Disorders Awareness week this week. Please come along to the library and have a look at our large collection of books on this complex topic
Local Government Association
Building resilience: how local partnerships are supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
Too many children and young people nationally do not receive the support they need to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The purpose of this research (commissioned from Isos Partnership) is to explore some of the factors that are contributing to this nationally challenging context, and to develop an evidence base for how local government and its partners can work most effectively together to deliver a coherent and joined-up offer of support for children and young people’s mental health.
Read the report here
News
NHS may use people’s phone data to predict mental health issues
Following a successful trial, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is considering the roll-out of an app with a machine-learning algorithm that uses mobile phone data to predict who is at risk of having a mental health crisis.
Read more here