Acumen
Acumen is an advocacy organisation that covers Argyll & Bute, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire. Its philosophy is to maximise service users and carers involvement in all areas of service provision this ensuring a quality of service is received which, in turn, improves the individuals quality of life.
For more information visit Acumen
Bipolar Scotland
Bipolar Scotland is a membership-based voluntary sector organisation which provides information, support and advise for people affected by bipolar disorder / manic depression and those who care for them.
For more information visit Bipolar Scotland
Carers Trust (Scotland)
Carers Trust Scotland (formerly The Princess Royal Trust for Carers) has been operating in Scotland since 1991. They are the largest provider of comprehensive carers support services in Scotland, reaching around 40,000 adult carers and more than 3,500 young carers from all groups and communities, through a unique network of independent carers centres and young carers services (Network Partners) throughout Scotland.
They work with partners to improve support, services and recognition for carers in communities across Scotland.
For more information visit Carers Trust Scotland
Carers Trust Scotland has developed a guide to raise awareness of carers' needs amongst healthcare professionals and to recognise carers as partners in care. The Triangle of Care: A Guide to Best Practice in Mental Health Care in Scotland is an alliance between service user, carer and staff member that promotes safety, supports recovery and sustains wellbeing.
For more information visit Triangle of Care
HUG - Highland Users Group
HUG is a network of people with experience of mental health problems. Their main aim is to improve the way in which users of mental health services are treated by campaigning to improve the rights, services and treatment of people with mental health problems, and to challenge stigma and discrimination. Launched in 1996, HUG now has around 350 members and thirteen local branches across the Highlands.
For more information, visit HUG.
LAMH - Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health
LAMH is a charity and provider of a range of services to people with mental health difficulties. They develop and provide support services in partnership with people who experience mental health difficulties, their carers and other agencies. They also provide training to businesses around the mental health awareness information and how to support employees with mental health issues.
For more information visit LAMH
Mental Health Foundation
In Scotland the Mental Health Foundation focuses on social justice and inequality in mental health, raising awareness of mental health with the public and working in partnership with community organisations, policy makers and researchers.
Their programmes link together policy, research evidence and practice, helping people and polciy recognise the role mental health plays in life.
For more information visit Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Network (Greater Glasgow)
Are a service-user led charity which acts as a collective advocacy voice for people with a lived experience of mental-ill health and their carers.
For more information visit Mental Health Network (Greater Glasgow)
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
Protect and promote the human rights of people with mental illness, learning disabilities, dementia and related conditions. They carry out their statutory duties be focusing on five main areas of work which are - visiting people, monitoring the acts, investigations, information and advice, and influencing and changing.
For more information visit Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
National Rural Mental Health Forum
Dedicated to ensuring people in rural Scotland lead mentally healthy lives. The Forum has a broad membership from the public, private and third sectors.
For more information visit Rural Wellbeing
SAMH - Scottish Association for Mental Health
SAMH is a charity that works to ensure that people are talking about mental health and this is done in the following four ways:
- Community based services for people with mental health problems
- National programmes
- Policy and campaigning work
- Raising funds to ensure that their work can continue
For more information visit SAMH
See Me
See Me is Scotland's Programmed to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination. They are funded by Scottish Government and Comic Relief and are managed by SAMH and the Mental Health Foundation.
For more information visit See Me
Support in Mind Scotland
Are known for their particular expertise in understanding schizophrenia and psychosis and the impact that this has on families and they actively campaign to challenge the stigma experienced specifically by people living with schizophrenia.
For more information visit Support in Mind Scotland
UCI – User and Carer Involvement
User and Carer Involvement is a Scottish charity operating across the Dumfries and Galloway Region. Their mission is to ensure that people who have mental illness, dementia or learning disabilities, and their carers have a representative voice and, as a result, see positive changes in their service provision.
For more information, visit User and Carer
VOX – Voices Of eXperience
VOX is a National Mental Health Service User-Led organisation, working in partnership with mental health and related services to ensure that service users get every opportunity to contribute positively to changes in the services that serve them and wider society. VOX supports individuals and works with members to ensure that their views are listened to. Mental health service user-led groups are also able to become members of VOX, thus ensuring that VOX represents a range of views and work together with groups who have a great deal of local or specialist knowledge and information.
For more information, visit VOX
