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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.

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.

Mental health is talk of the village

Submitted by Hayley Richardson on Fri, 13/04/2012 - 12:11pm

London’s South Bank was transformed into a ‘pop –up village’ with a difference thanks to Time to Change, England’s biggest mental health anti-stigma campaign, run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness.

The Time to Change Village is a new concept to challenge mental health discrimination by encouraging people to get talking about mental health.

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