The North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network’s Newsletter is now available. Written and produced by service users, the newsletter’s aim is to be useful and inspiring for service users, carers and those who work with people with PD. The lead story opens the debate on the PD label – does it help, provide hope [...]
Exclusion Link, the Association of Therapeutic Communities and The Institute of Mental Health have come together to run a residential training course in May 2012. This is a residential training course of intensive group work, to help staff develop reflective practice skills. It is set up as a highly structured programme of activities where participants [...]
An action packed day awaits the 150 delegates* attending Emergence’s first Open Day on Friday July 8. The day will start with a keynote presentation from Meredith Vivian OBE, Emergence’s newest recruit. For many years Meredith was Deputy Director of Mental Health Care Pathways at the Department of Health. This will be followed with a [...]
Emergence, the national service user-led organisation which support everyone affected by personality disorder, is holding its first ever Open Day on July 8. The day is for anyone interested in becoming involved with Emergence, finding out about the work they do, looking for new employment opportunities or interested in exploring how the organisation can support [...]
The Impact Project* has been running for over a year, attached Newsletter Oct-Dec 10 is an update of what has been achieved since the project was initiated, and an outline of the plans for the future. “We have been really busy since the project was fully implemented in September 2009 and have taken 26 frontline [...]
Information about the implementation of the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF), designed to support people to work more effectively with personality disorder.