Next Open Forum
2.30pm Tuesday 3rd February 2025
The next Open Forum is Tuesday 3rd February 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Guest: SLaM (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust)
Topic: Strategy Refresh. Priorities, Vision and Mission Feedback Session.
Shape the future of your local SLaM mental health services
Join us for the first Hear Us Open Forum for 2026. We will be joined by SLaM (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust). The Open Forum aims to give the mental health community a voice to improve the services you use. On our next Open Forum, SLaM will be leading a feedback session on their new Strategy. They are keen to hear from SLaM services users and their carers, friends and family. This is a fantastic opportunity to get your voice heard.
SLaM’s Plans to:
Be the best place for care: We will be kind and respect everyone. And every person will get the best care.
Help people before they get unwell: We will help people as soon as we can. We will study the best way to help people before they get unwell.
Push to make things better: We will work with other people to help make mental health care better. This includes schools, employers and housing providers.
Be a place local people trust: We will be kind, fair and open to our staff and the people we care for.
Get things done without making waste: We need to make sure we can pay for everything and look after our money. We need to look after our planet.
Accessibility
Hear Us strives to make the Open Forum accessible for everyone. At the start of each forum we go through accommodations members may need to make the meeting more accessible, such as how to turn on live captions. If you would like to discuss your access needs privately, you can email forum@hear-us.org
Voice of Change
We now have a new segment on the Open Forum. Hear Us’ new Campaigns Project segment, Voice of Change, is a platform dedicated to the voices of service users and community members of Croydon. This segment is a chance to:
- Voice questions to SLaM staff, commissioners, or councillors.
- Highlight issues you have heard about or experienced in mental health services.
- Recommend campaigns for Hear Us to collaborate on with other organizations.
- Advocate for the change you want to see.
- Learn about how to contribute to the campaigns project.
In line with the Hear Us ethos, our number one priority for campaigning is co-production with people who have lived experience of using and needing mental health services in Croydon. That is why we are urging all members of Hear Us to attend the Open Forum and share your perspective and insights during Voice of Change, because it is your voices that inspire change. No Campaign, No Gain!
The Hear Us Mental Health Open Forum is designed primarily for mental health service users to come together and discuss services that affect them. However, we welcome carers, staff and anyone interested in mental health to join us.
This forum allows us all to meet, ask questions and debate with commissioners and service providers. We invite statutory services like Croydon Council and SLaM (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust) as well as voluntary services such as Mind, The BME Forum and APCMH to name but a few.
Amy Kirksmith
Open Forum Coordinator
Hear Us
Orchard House
15a Purley Road
South Croydon
Surrey
CR2 6EZ
Tel: 020 8681 6888
Email: forum@hear-us.org
Webpage: www.hear-us.org/forum/