The Mums Returning to Work project by Outside the Box is highlighting the issues faced by a huge amount of women during pregnancy, as well as during and after maternity leave. The Equality and Human Rights Commission found that in the U.K: 77% of mums had a negative of discriminatory experience during pregnancy, maternity leave […]
Information from Outside the Box who are creating a positive, relaxed and fun space for LGBTQ people and their families. Queer Families Project on Biteable. The Queer Families group is a new group of parents who have started a regular meet up for fun, friendship and informal peer support. The next group is taking place […]
Last week SAMH called for urgent action to support the mental wellbeing of young people. They say 1,838 young people were rejected from getting support from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the last three months. The World Health Organisation tells us worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental illness. These are […]
It’s Children’s Mental Health Week. Children’s mental health isn’t something that we talk that much about at Mind Waves. Our volunteers are adults and they tend to talk about their futures, rather than focusing on the past. However, around half of adults with mental health problems first experienced their symptoms as children, 75% before their […]
The National Confidential Forum, or NCF is a new project to hear the truth about people’s experiences as children in Scotland’s institutional care system. We caught up with Ben Lukins at the Forum to hear more . What’s the National Confidential Forum all about? The National Confidential Forum (the Forum) is here to listen […]
The sun’s out, the kids are off school. Yeah! But how come children have so much more energy than the adults who look after after them? Now we just have to find enough to keep them entertained for the next seven weeks. Luckily, there are loads of free things to do in Glasgow and Clyde. […]
A guest post from Lauren Fox @weldedrockets who is an art therapist I work with people who have often experienced sudden, massive changes. Like the carpet has suddenly exploded underneath them, and they haven’t had an opportunity to see what happened before having to switch to survival mode, and get through the new changes […]
