A Life in the Day: Volume 5 Issue 3

Editorial: Who needs social inclusion?

Bob Grove

Poverty, social exclusion and mental health: A survey of people's personal experiences

Lisa Bird

Focus on Mental Health is a UK forum which was formed in 1993. It consists of representatives of leading UK mental health groups, who work together on common objectives. In…

Developing services for people with mental health problems in the New Deal for Disabled People personal adviser pilots

Janet Gordon, Barbara Mills

Janet Gordon and Barbara Mills of the Employment Service describe and reflect on some of the lessons from innovative ways of partnership working in the New Deal for Disabled…

Fragments: A book from new writers in Aberdeen

David Strathearn

In this snippet David Strathearn reports on an unlikely outcome of the closure of an industrial therapy unit. Other exciting aspects of the transformations that have been going on…

Practice makes perfect

Paul Hathaway

People often say that working to expand opportunities in rural areas is one of the greatest challenges faced by mental health services. Paul Hathaway describes a uniquely…

Making it work in Romania: Mental Health NGOs develop their marketing strategies

Paul Cutler, Jane Shears

This article describes the partnership between Hamlet Trust and Romanian mental health NGOs to develop local marketing strategies. All the NGOs are seeking to create employment…

Keeping in touch… a new network and the continuation of an old one

Adam Pozner

In this issue we include a short profile on the Able Volunteers Project and an update on WorkNet. The Able Volunteers Project focuses on how individuals with learning disabilities…

Deciding about disclosure

Mo Hutchison, Mary Nettle

One of the biggest problems facing a person with a diagnosis who wants to get a job is how much to tell about those tricky gaps in the CV. Of course it doesn't end with getting a…