April 2010 PDF

36 Page Edition: Contents:

• Freedom Pass Update
• Hear Us AGM & the Croydon User Council (CUC) Open Meetings
• Croydon Independent Support Brokerage Service (CISBS)
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
• Volunteering Opportunities
• A Story of Boy Meets Girl
• LINKWORKING SHORT REPORT CROYDON 2009-10
• What is Recovery?
• Ways I have been affected by SLaM
• Get connected with Croydon PLUG
• Super hero competition & Poetry Competition
• AND MUCH MUCH MORE........
  
  

Dec Xmas 2009 PDF

28 Page Xams Edition: Contents:

• Hear Us Xmas Party at the Fairfield Club Tickets ONLY
• Renew your Freedom Pass
• Design a new Hear us LOGO
• Coping with Christmas
• Service User-Led Groups in Croydon
• Christmas Events
• Samaritans Croydon Hotline 020 681 6666
• Christmas Bah HumBug
• Croydon Service User Network (SUN)
• Hear Us & the Croydon User Council (CUC) open Meeting with Croydon Police
• Hear Us Poetry Competition 2009 Winner
• Hear Us AGM 19th January 2010 at the Fairfield Club
• and much much more
  

Oct 2009 V4 Issue 4 PDF

40 Page Bumper Edition: Contents:

• In Memoriam - John Owens
• Tales from the Linkworkers
• Freedom Pass - Renewed, applied or appealed
• Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Who are Imagine
• Letters to Hear Us
• Croydon Service User Network (SUN)
• The Depression Alliance - Time Bank Scheme
• Hear Us & the Croydon User Council (CUC) open Meetings
• Help to quit Smoking
• Adult Mental Health Social Inclusion "Day" services in Croydon
• Useful Numbers
• Recommended Books
• Hear Us Poetry Competition 2009
• Membership Renewal
  

June 2009 V4 Issue 3 PDF

Contents:

• Membership Renewal
• Active Minds Buddying Service
• The Eat Well Plate
• The Anatomy of Depression and Mania
• Imagine Services in Croydon
• In Memoriam - David Best
• Croydon Books on Prescription
• Linkworkers and Trustees wanted
• Hear Us Poetry Competition 2008
• Events for Your Diary
• The Wellcome Collection
• The MDF (Manic Depression Foundation) The Bipolar Organisation in Croydon
• And now for something completely different
  
  

Oct 2008 V4 Issue 2 PDF

Contents:

• Linkworking at Tamworth Road & Westways Reception
• DIY Linkworking
• Active Minds
• Soft Furnishings at Mind in Croydon
• My Experience of Using My Computer to Budget
• The Forgotten Freedom Pass people ‘News’
• Hear us staff required
• Reminiscences of Mental Hospitals in 1963
• Everything (or some) you ever wanted to know about medication, but were afraid to ask!
• National Conference on Mental Health and Well Being for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People
• Bethlem Linkworking Mad as a box of frogs.
• Adverse psychiatric side effects of medicines:
• What's our responsibility?
• Frames of mind
  
  

Oct 2007 V4 Issue 1 PDF

Contents:

• The Forbidden (forgotten) Freedom Pass
• Croydon Mobility Forum
• BonkersFest
• Linkworking Overview
• Hear Us Five-a-side
• My Experience of Mental Illness and Completing or Dropping Out of Courses
• The National BME Mental Health Network
• EVENTS ACROSS THE BOROUGH - April to June 2008

Oct 2007 V3 Issue 4 PDF

Contents:

• Croydon to Chicago
• 3 MUST DO THIS MONTH (sorry 4 things that we must do)
  • Changes to Croydon Day Service
  • Celebrate World Mental Health Day - 5-a-Side Footy
  • Advocacy Review
  • Freedom Passes
• Marathon Man
• OPENING of the Fairfield Club
• Brown Envelope on Mat: Panic Stricken
• APMCH MOVE
• Supported Housing In Croydon
• LINKWORKERS WANTED
• Poetry & Prose Result
• Community Engagemment Programme

April 2007 V3 Issue 3 PDF

Contents:

• Project to display artwork at CMHTs
• Changes to Croydon Helpline and Crisis Services
• Lantern Hall Letter to Steve Davidson RE: Closure
• Permitted Work and the Benefit System
• PLOT 26
• Marathon Man
• Met Police
• CUC Open meetings
• LINKWORKERS WANTED
• Poetry & Prose Competition
• Groups Around Croydon
• Celebrate World Mental Health Day - 5-a-Side Footy

December 2006 V3 Issue 2 PDF

Contents:

• CMHT / Resource Centre Questionnaire
• Sprout Time
• Save the Maudsley Clinic
• Meet the New Hear Us Staff
• Mental Health Act Amendments: What can you do?
• Please sir can we have some more.............Money?
• Women and Mental Health
• APCMH Artwork And Creative Writing

June 2006 V3 Issue 1 PDF

Contents:

• Carrot and the stick
• Ward Food and Smoking at the Bethlem Royal Hospital
• CMHT catchment areas
• Bethlem Paitent Satisfaction Survey Report
• PM letter Continued
• NADS

October 2005 V2 Issue 4 PDF

Contents:

• Why Should You Give Your Views on the Proposed Changes to Croydon Integrated Adult Mental Health Services?
• Minutes from Mental Health Service Review Proposals Presentation to Croydon Mental Health Services Users
• Crisis Helpline Survey Results
• Letter to PM
• Experience of Alcohol Psychosis
• & introducing Mayhem Man & and his Entrusted Carer Super-Hero-Dog

March 2005 V2 Issue 3 PDF

Contents:

• Reasons behind the locked doors at resource centres
• Minutes from the CUC open meeting - DLA
• Andy's sensible eating guide
• Mental Health Bill
• Letters
• Working on antidepressants
• SURE, Information about their project
• Avoiding avoidance.
  

July 2004 V2 Issue 1 - PDF

Contents:

• Farewell to Ken Taylor, Acting Coordinator
• Welcome to Tracey, Suheyla and Andy.
• Service User Representative groups (SURG)
• Memorandum and Articles of Association of Hear Us
• Festering Abscess Of Racism with NHS Mental Health Services – update
• Self-Management - Taking Control
• Questions to ask your Psychiatrist