Plymouth Public Health Improvement Service Sue Hall Cathryn Keeble

Safe, Well and at Home WHOLE LIFE – WHOLE SYSTEMS MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY FOR PLYMOUTH To improve access to art and culture activities by a multiagency coordinated approach and mechanism To improve the range of meaningful occupation and employment opportunities for service users

Safe, Well and at Home Promote mental health and wellbeing for all Working with individuals and communities to combat discrimination against individuals and groups with lived experience of mental health problems and to promote their social inclusion Ensure that everyone in Plymouth has equal opportunity to achieve positive mental health and wellbeing Let’s get talking…. Mental Health and Wellbeing Promotion Strategy 2011

Safe, Well and at Home Awareness and Training Workplace and Employment Reducing Stigma and Discrimination Parity and Sustainability Better Information Resilience Local Campaigns Arts and Creativity Mind and Body Let’s get talking…. Mental Health and Wellbeing Promotion Action Plan Working Together

Safe, Well and at Home Arts and Creativity Raise the profile and use of cultural & creative arts within the promotion mental health and wellbeing and recovery Utilise and increase current access, use, uptake and experience of existing arts/creative spaces/resources for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health Online/Off line access to MHWB/Arts/Creativity information hub Raise confidence and awareness of non-MH providers to provide and support ‘new’ audiences confidently and competently Pilot a mental health and wellbeing arts and creativity festival in and around Plymouth that promotes and celebrates World Mental Health Day – ‘The Art of Mental Health and Wellbeing’ October 2015 Scope, reinforce and develop doing/vocational pathways within the arts and creativity for people with lived experience of mental ill-health

Safe, Well and at Home Arts and Creativity The evidence base for the effectiveness of arts and health interventions Decreased stress levels, anxiety and depression Improvements in clinical indicators such as blood pressure Decreased perception of pain Reduced drug consumption and reduced length of stay Music interventions Raise awareness of and responsibility of health issues Increased confidence, enhanced self esteem, reduced anxiety; Reduced isolation Building of trust Providing a means of expression

Safe, Well and at Home Workplace and Employment Promote Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Join up and promote shared information Support for people out of work/meaningful occupation into gaining work/meaningful occupation

Safe, Well and at Home Workplace and Employment The evidence base for the effectiveness of meaningful occupation and work Central to individual identity, social roles and social status Therapeutic Promotes recovery and rehabilitation Better health outcomes Minimises the harmful effects of long-term sickness absence and long-term incapacity Promotes full participation in society, independence and human rights Reduces poverty Improves quality of life and wellbeing Obtaining adequate economic resources higher mortality poorer general health, long-standing illness, limiting longstanding illness poorer mental health, psychological distress, minor psychological/psychiatric morbidity higher medical consultation, medication consumption and hospital admission rates

Safe, Well and at Home Things you can do

Safe, Well and at Home Sue Hall Cathryn Keeble