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Channel 4 announces mental health season

Submitted by Hayley Richardson on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 11:36am

Channel 4 has announced their ‘4 Goes Mad’ mental health season, due to air this summer. The season is an opportunity to raise awareness of mental health problems and a chance to challenge the taboo that has existed for too long.

Time to Change has been working with individual production companies and the Channel 4 team to ensure that the voice of people with mental health problems has been listened to and that the issue is dealt with sensitively and accurately.

Oxford University and Sheffield United sign the Time to Change pledge

Submitted by Helen Davies on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 5:10pm

University and football club among the latest to pledge to end mental health discrimination.

Some exciting new organisations have committed to tackling mental health discrimination recently by signing the Time to Change pledge.

Not only that, but they've been putting on some innovative activity to mark the occasion.

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New study shows positive behaviour change with reduced mental health discrimination

Submitted by Hayley Richardson on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 5:07pm

Findings of a new study published today in the journal Psychiatric Services show improvements in behaviour towards people with mental health problems in England, during the first year of the national anti-stigma programme, Time to Change.

The research, led by Dr Claire Henderson and Professor Graham Thornicroft from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), shows a four per cent drop in the number of people reporting mental health discrimination, and a 20 per cent reduction in the levels of discrimination across 22 ident

Press Complaints Commission resolves complaint against Jeremy Clarkson comment

Submitted by Hayley Richardson on Tue, 24/04/2012 - 12:41pm

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has resolved the complaint that Time to Change partner charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, along with the Samaritans, Sane and PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide, lodged against The Sun about a Jeremy Clarkson column about rail suicide.

Sally Brampton puts mental health on the record at journalist event

Submitted by Hayley Richardson on Mon, 16/04/2012 - 1:50pm

Time to Change, England’s biggest mental health anti-stigma programme, run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, is spearheading a new initiative offering journalists and programme makers from all sectors an insight into mental health to ensure that reporting of the issue is done fairly and accurately.

This evening (Monday 16th April), to launch the initiative, Time to Change is holding an event for journalists from top women’s lifestyle magazines.

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