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‘Bag of Tricks’

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The ‘Bag of Tricks’ enables organisations and groups to discuss issues relating to mental health and well-being. How each organisation uses the kit will depend on their strategic priorities and any specific needs they have identified.
 
Groups who have used the resources include:
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  • Mental Health service-users and those with lived experience of mental ill-health

  • Health care professionals and practitioners

  • Teachers, school children and young adults

  • Heritage professionals and volunteers

  • University Staff and Students

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Background to the Resources

 

Using the New Vic's pioneering Cultural Animation techniques, the kit uses objects and patient stories taken from a historical research project undertaken at the University of Huddersfield in partnership with St Anne’s Community Services. The themes arising from this research include:

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  • Giving ‘voice’ to marginalised individuals and communities.

  • Putting those with lived experience of mental ill-health at the heart of the research and the issues arising from it as people first.

  • Demonstrating the ‘ordinariness’ of mental ill-health.

  • Helping to address issues of stigma and encourage empathy.

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