Mentality is a youth leadership project run by Off the Record (Bristol). Young people aged 13-19 from all walks of life but with experience of mental health issues and services come together once a week to lead the organisation and campaign with us for better mental health.
If you're up for the challenge of taking part in this exciting project, please contact Laura on 07975507300 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Here's a collection of images from the project
7/2/2012 - This Is Bristol: Award for project tackling stigma
7/3/2012 - This Is Bristol: 'Unique vision' wins youth project prize
Mentality Project - BBC Radio Bristol spot by otrbristol Pete on Truth About Youth - Prince's Trust on BCFM by otrbristol
08. Feb 2012
We are in the Evening Post!!!
Follow this link to read about Mentality in the Evening Post!!
03. Feb 2012
Well Done Mentality
Whooooop! The Mentality project has just won a Phillip Lawrence Award! One of only 6 projects in the country - yusss! well done peeps!!!
Check out the Phillip Lawrence website to see the great write up about the Mentality project!
06. Jan 2012
2012 is here! New Year and a new push to our Mentality campaign! Here the latest update:
There is still a lot of work to be done to break down the negative stigma of mental health and Mentality has a few projects to help fight against this stigma.
The ongoing project that Mentality is working on is delivering Positive Mental Health Workshops to schools/youth projects across the city. The workshops is tailored around the setting, provides interesting information and are fun. So if your school or youth project would benefit from a workshop let them know about us or contact Laura Brain!
The Positive Mental Health Workshops is part of another project, which is getting Mental Health taught more in schools. Drugs, alcohol and sexual health are commonly taught in schools but coping with stress is more unlikely to be taught. Schools are doing more to support the wellbeing of students but what about teaching students about managing anger. So Mentality is currently looking into way of doing this.
Again linking into to school, Mentality is working on a research project and is teaming up with Healthy Schools programme. They are carrying out a piece of research where they are visiting schools and asking students how they feel welling being is being looked after in schools. This about looking at positive things the school is doing, collecting good examples, what has not worked so well and how students feel schools can improve. Would your school like to be involved?
Then the last project Mentality is doing is a short campaign on Psychosis. They are planning to create a workshop to increase understanding of this mental health issue, create a video and a webpage. To do this they are teaming up with the NHS Bristol’s Psychosis team. Very exciting piece of work!
We are currently looking for young volunteers that have hours in the day to help with these projects. So if this sounds like something you want to get involved in, contact Laura Brain!
16. Dec 2011
Christmas Stress Busting Tip 3 -
Christmas is everywhere but it is okay to not celebrate Christmas- people have different views and beliefs some which do not include celebrating Christmas. Some people also work over the Christmas holidays.
14. Dec 2011
Christmas Stress Busting Tip 2
Spending time with family can be hard. So break up that time by doing something which includes sharing something; it will bring you closer together and we take the focus off of any arguments - watch a movie and talk about it afterwards, play a game like ‘Guess who’ or look at photos from a holiday. Take a look at www.thesite.org, which has more information about this subject!