Changing Minds anti-stigma event
The 'Changing Minds' event, looking at stigma and discrimination, was held in April with great success.
Attended by over 100 individuals, with excellent feedback about the benefits of the event, 'Changing Minds' was the first step in creating a local activsm group to maintain focus and develop work around confonting, challenging and reducing stigma associated with mental ill health.
Milton Keynes Mind were instumental in bringing this event together, working in partnership with service users and the PCT to provide a range of speakers, workshops and discussions around such diverse subjects as stigma in the media, the New Horizons framework and Human Rights in Mental Health.
With over half attendees being people using services or thier carers, this wa a real user led initiative and promises to build knowledge andunderstanding across out comunity.
Many thanks to all involved.
It is hoped to have further events on a regular basis.
