Amidst rising rates of depression, anxiety and self-harm in children and young people, we launched our Make it Count campaign in 2018, because mental health is not extracurricular.
Let’s be ambitious about ending poverty and improving mental health. If we did end poverty, then all of us, not just those who are poor now, would see benefits for our mental health.
While through much of 2021, we all had to deal with more pandemic lockdowns, our work and focus on prevention in mental health was needed more than ever.
While there has been considerable and welcome attention in the area of dementia over recent years, the mental health of people in later life, and specifically the complex relationship between dementia and mental health problems, is a neglected area in public discourse, policy and service provision.
Between 2020-2022, working with the University of Cambridge, De Montfort University, Swansea University, the University of Strathclyde and Queen’s University Belfast, the Mental Health Foundation led a ground-breaking, long-term, UK-wide research study of how the pandemic affected people’s mental health.
Pupils, teachers and parents from Kirkintilloch High School in East Dunbartonshire helped launch the new ‘#Make it Count’ campaign from the Mental Health Foundation Scotland today (Wednesday 10 October).
After six years of ground-breaking workplace mental health facilitation and training, the board of Mental Health Foundation’s workplace subsidiary, Mental Health at Work, has decided to cease operations at the end of December 2023.
