Today is Time to Talk day 2023. To mark this day, Steph, who works in Mentally Healthy Leeds and as an Anti-Stigma Champion, has put together the following blog. Time to Talk Day began in 2011, when the then Time to Change launched a four-week television advertising campaign to promote its new slogan: "It's Time to Talk. It's Time to Change." The campaign was fronted by a number of
This World Mental Health Day, the Anti Stigma team at Touchstone's Mentally Healthy Leeds will be holding a 'Living Libraries' event to talk openly about mental health and challenge stigma around it. Hi there. My name is Stephanie Francis (but everyone knows me as Steph) and I am a Community Development Worker in the Mentally Healthy Leeds team of Touchstone, based at Cromwell Mount. Each year I work with
Mental health problems are common. They affect thousands of people in the UK, and their friends, families, work colleagues, and society in general. The Anti Stigma Leeds Champions came together with Producer/Script Reader/Script Editor Thea Burrows to create the video campaign Voices Against Stigma. Below they told their stories: https://youtu.be/Jy654qTrThs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeZNKVw7D0 https://youtu.be/kjD87Z-sn6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWlVbfQyA8I In Leeds around 106,000 people experience a common mental health problem, such as anxiety or depression