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Meriden Family Programme

Race Equality Foundation Launch New Web-site

The Race Equality Foundation is a charity which works to promote race equality in health and housing.  They have recently launched a website, "Better Health" (www.better-health.org.uk), which provides evidence on issues relating to ethnicity and health.  Of interest will be their up-and-coming paper on BME carers, which is due to be published at the beginning of September.

Family Work in Early Psychosis for Ireland

The Meriden Programme has a strong track record for delivering high quality professional training in family work and has been offering training specific to early psychosis in England, Scotland and Wales over the past 4 years.  Following a number of recent requests from Ireland for training specifically in family work in early psychosis, we are pleased to offer a course in Dublin which we hope will appeal to clinicians who are unable to attend training in the UK either for financial or personal family reasons.

The course will be running for 5 consecutive days, 8th - 12th November 2010. Please see our training pages for additional details and the course flyer.

Life Coach Directory

The purpose of the site is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge life coach support network, enabling individuals to find a life coach close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will help those seeking a new direction in their life to find the encouragement they need. Every life coach on the site who has a full profile has either sent a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover to us, or is registered with a professional body with recognised codes of ethics and practice, this way we can be assured of their professionalism

For more information please see their website at http://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/

Dr. Grainne Fadden wins Rethink Marsh Award 2009

Dr Gráinne Fadden receiving the Marsh Award from Mr Godwin Calafato, Rethink Trustee

On Saturday November 7, Dr. Grainne Fadden, Director of the Meriden Family Programme was presented the Rethink "Marsh Award" at a ceremony in London. The award seeks to recognise the achievements of an individual in mental health and nominees are suggested by members of Rethink, the largest membership mental health charity in England. 

Pauline Arksey, MBE, a carer and former chair of Carers in Partnership, nominated Dr Fadden for the award stating “Gráinne has contributed significantly to the understanding of the role and needs of families with mental illness and she has worked tirelessly to advance the training of professional workers. Changing attitudes and cultures of clinical and other workers can have been of no easy task. Only with perseverance has Gráinne and the team gone forward.” 

For more information on Rethink and the Marsh Awards, please see their website at www.rethink.org