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Healthy Hearts Grants for Community Projects

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What a line-up!</h4>
Short and sweet this week, as your blogger is out of the country. More on that soon. I’m thrilled to announce some of the line-up for our free one-day event here at Manchester School of Art on the 12th February. Alongside Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, who will be publishing her new report on the long-term health benefits of participating in the arts, we will hear from/about: 
  WordPlay with Michelle Green and Harriet Morgan-Shami  
  42nd Street with Julie McCarthy  
  Red Balloon Pop with Sandra Bouguerch 
  I Care with Kate Bevan  
  The Art Room at The Christie Hospital with Patricia Mountford 
  Medical Waste with Coral Mallow  
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  Look200 with Lucy Burscough 
  Well into Words with Julie Walker  
  Outside In with Jennifer Gilbert  
  Pool Arts and St Lukes with Alison Kershaw 
  I AM - Art as an Agent for Change and a Recoverist Manifesto 
  Mark Prest and Clive Parkinson 
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BBC Children in Need Main Grant Programme</h3>
BBC Children in Need has announced that the next applications deadline for its Main Grants Programme is the 15th May 2015. Funding is available to organisations that work with young people who are suffering from: 
 Illness   Distress  Abuse or neglect  Are disabled  Have behavioural or psychological difficulties  Or are living in poverty or situations of deprivation. 
The Main grants programme is open to applications for grants of over £10,000. find out more by clicking on the image of the bizarre Ms Beatrix Potter taking her poor rabbit for a walk<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaG4k13R3uc" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;">.</a> 
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 Healthy Hearts Grants for Community Projects</h2>
Heart Research UK has announced that its Health Hearts Grants Programme is now open for applications. Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants support innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities. Grants of up to £5,000 and £10,000 are available to community groups, voluntary organisations and researchers who are spreading the healthy heart message. The closing date for applications is the 28th February 2015. Read more by clicking on the tickety-boom-boom below. 
 
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What a line-up! Short and sweet this week, as your blogger is out of the country. More on that soon. I’m thrilled to announce some of ...

Diversity Mental Health Month: Why It is Needed and How It Came to Be

<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> By Steve Koh, MD, MPH, MBA<o:p></o:p></h4> July of 2014 is the very first APA Diversity Mental Health Month. This emphasis on mental health needs of diverse populations is much needed. While we have diversity oriented month observances for specific population groups like the Black History Month (February), National Women’s History Month (March), Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May), Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (June), American Indian Heritage Month (August), and Hispanic Heritage Month (September), we have not had a dedicated month more broadly addressing diverse populations and mental health issues. <o:p></o:p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> I cannot overemphasize the importance of this month. For the first time, together, we will bring attention to the unique and challenging needs of the diverse populations with mental illness and substance use disorders, work to decrease mental health disparities, and engage with diverse populations to help promote and grow future mental health champions in the communities.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_CdToFgJ5rvqaMClTsyJ_eWwV195ArZO1h0PLqZABNqIqB9RhgpWTGzGr0L6wF20MB0aSqB5ew9lKpLN-Y58Xurgg-9aKc2k9n26gYZ7E2rn1NrIqIXCBMxUwS3MGMSev9uDxksEMHe9/s1600/diversity.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_CdToFgJ5rvqaMClTsyJ_eWwV195ArZO1h0PLqZABNqIqB9RhgpWTGzGr0L6wF20MB0aSqB5ew9lKpLN-Y58Xurgg-9aKc2k9n26gYZ7E2rn1NrIqIXCBMxUwS3MGMSev9uDxksEMHe9/s1600/diversity.png" width="194" /></a>The concept for Diversity Mental Health Month came from a group of participants in APA’s Minority Fellowship program.  The program’s goal is to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in mental health and substance abuse care by providing specialized training and mentorship. The fellowship fosters those with diverse backgrounds who have chosen to become physicians specializing in mental health and to do this work with the diverse populations.   But what happens when we go home? What then? We felt that it was easy to get lost when we left our APA meetings in Washington DC. How do we galvanize our colleagues at home to look at the importance of minority mental health issues? To recognize the stigma of being an ethnic and cultural minority and also suffering mental illness? To understand that many minority students do not consider going into field of medicine let alone mental health profession? To appreciate the importance of cultural competency and humility in working with diverse patient population?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Without involvement a coordinated effort by the APA, it was our belief that while we personally benefited from the fellowship experience, our impact would be limited. There needed to be a designated time for all of APA to bring attention to this important patient population.  So the idea was born to create a Diversity Mental Health Month. The APA Assembly asked APA staff to help create a month designated to minority mental health issues and for the APA to actively promote the month. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> I hope that others are excited about this new endeavor of the APA as I am. The challenges are great but together we can bring the needed attention to this area of our profession. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Many resources, including an infographic with basic data on mental health disparities, and brochures and fact sheets on specific populations, suggested activities, video messages, and more, are available at <a href="http://www.psychiatry.org/diversity-month">www.psychiatry.org/diversity-month</a>.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div>