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Karen Machin

For this blog, I'm writing as a representative of St Helens Mental Health Forum here in Merseyside. I'm the Chair of the group which has over 100 members aiming to improve services for people, like ourselves, with experience of distress. At a recent network meeting, I got talking to a member of the Hate Crimes Unit of the local Police force. We had a quick discussion about how we could work together to raise awareness about the discrimination experienced by people with distress. This blog will describe our progress with this project.
We'd welcome your feedback and would love to know what's happenning in other parts of the country.

Posts by Karen Machin

Is there stigma in mental health services?

Sun, 10/01/2010 - 4:37pm - Karen Machin - 3 Comments
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Well I’m glad that ten years is over. For me it was ten years with some very varying experiences of health services. When I look back now, I wonder why on earth I didn’t complain at the time about some of the incidents.

CPS - good news!

Sun, 15/02/2009 - 11:56pm - Karen Machin - 0 Comments
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Just heard about this review which makes for some reassuring news: Reported in various places including here

Crown prosecution service consultation

Sat, 07/02/2009 - 1:21pm - Karen Machin - 3 Comments
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Just to let you know that there's a current consultation (ending March 1st 2009) on the Crown Prosecution Service's website, that wants your views. Its about their Policy on prosecuting criminal cases involving people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities as victims and witnesses

Sigma project - February 09

Thu, 05/02/2009 - 1:27pm - Karen Machin - 2 Comments
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I've met with Jim and his colleagues again for another interesting chat about how to take things forward. He gave me some information about lay visitors and I wonder if this is something more of us should get involved in? They're independent members of the local community who visit police stations unannounced to check on the welfare of people who are in police custody.

Updateon the Sigma project

Mon, 19/01/2009 - 10:12pm - Karen Machin - 0 Comments
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Apologies for not updating the blog for a while. December's never a good month for me. Anyway New Year New Start. So hopefully we'll get back on track.
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