‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care’ is ready to go on the road (March 1-15), and is looking for venues. With the funding and support of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre and the Heritage Lottery Fund the ‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children’ [...]
While mental health is the focus of one day in October (10th), Emergence has chosen the remaining 30 to create awareness of personality disorder and raise much needed funds to continue to educate and fight the stigma associated with this poorly understood mental health condition. The Emergence Fundraising Month, called Open the Parachute, will include [...]
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an artist, who has a lived experience of personality disorder, to apply to become an ‘Artist in Residence’ for an Emergence supported project in Brent, London. This is the first time an ‘Artist in Residence’ post has been offered specifically to artists who identify with personality disorder. Outline of [...]
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What is PD
Understanding different types of emotional distress: an important area of mental health that is getting increasingly recognised is the way people express various forms of emotional distress. It can cause various behaviours: People harm themselves, for example by cutting their arms Drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol Taking illegal drugs regularly, excessively or irresponsibly Misusing prescribed [...]
‘Creative Personalities’ – Yorkshire and Humber, a joint project between personality disorder (PD) service-user group Emergence and Leeds-based mental health charity Community Links, has been this week shortlisted for a Society Guardian Public Services Award (customer service category). http://www.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards/shortlist-2010 The project brings together people affected by PD in Yorkshire and Humber and enables anyone with [...]
The Pathway Development Service will be holding the 5th Yorkshire and Humber Regional Learning Network on Tuesday 16 November 2010 in the Calderdale/ Kirklees area of West Yorkshire. The event is free and is open to service users, carers and workers who are affected by or have an interest in Personality Disorder. The day will [...]
Emergence and Tate Modern are hosting this event to begin to explore how to demonstrate the immense value of the work that we do.