Mental Health Awareness Week (May 21st-27th 2012)

This past week has been Mental Health Awareness Week and Choices for Life spent Thursday in Middleton Grange Shopping Centre promoting our service. We were also promoting the Time to Change campaign which focuses on removing the stigma associated with mental health issues and encouraging people to talk openly about their own. Despite the sunny weather outside we gave out a lot of interested people and got great responses to the array of information we had not just about Creative Support but about mental health on a whole and other Hartlepool based services.

There was of course a fun element to it all with two of our sessional workers putting on bunting and tablecloth printing in preparation for the Diamond Festival that will be held next weekend. This was a big hit with the kids and gave their parents a chance to chat about the service whilst they were occupied!

We'll be uploading photos of Choices for Life's big Diamond festival extravaganza which will include a large portrait of the Queen made from recycled art, circus skills, jubilee themed crafts, a banquet of food created by Service Users and staff and of course information stands. The team can't wait!