Mental Health and Wellbeing
Stage: Latest newsOur goal is that by 2025 London will have a quarter of a million wellbeing champions, supporting Londoners where they live, work and play.
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What do you do to improve your mental health?
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London’s Great Mental Health Day returns on Friday 26 January 2024. Share how you look after your own mental health and how you support others.
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Have your say on this mission around "better health and wellbeing for Londoners most affected by the pandemic."
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How are you doing? How are you feeling at this time?
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How your feedback has started to shape London’s road to recovery
HappenedNovember 2020: Workshops with key partners from health, voluntary sectors, local authorities and community organisations
HappenedDecember 2020: Mental health and wellbeing impact assessments and action planning with London’s Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) – coordinated by Thrive LDN
HappenedFebruary 2021: Briefing our key partners and stakeholder across the health and care sector and developing our early engagement plans
HappenedMarch 2021: leadership and governance for the mission transferred to the Thrive LDN Advisory Group, working closely with the Leaders’ Group and Social Recovery Board
HappenedApril 2021: Thrive LDN led engagement with the mission’s Working Group to revisit the mission narrative, develop project options and to align expectations of our key London partners
HappenedThe Mayor launched a citywide public awareness campaign on bereavement to help direct Londoners to information, advice, and support to cope with their grief.
HappenedJune - July 2021: Thrive LDN worked in partnership with Cruse Bereavement Care to deliver free, one-hour webinars on Bereavement and Loss Awareness, aimed at workers or volunteers supporting bereaved Londoners.
HappenedJuly 2021: Good Thinking started working with faith groups to support the development of further, culturally competent bereavement resources which will be available from the autumn
HappenedLaunch of new wellbeing resource pages on the Thrive LDN website, marking the start of the mission's Wellbeing Campaign
HappenedRenewed commitment to the #ZeroSuicideLondon campaign as we marked World Suicide Prevention Day
HappenedSeptember 2021: Continuation of a pan-London Wellbeing Campaign, focusing on protective factors. Meanwhile, wellbeing training offers for Londoners and those supporting them begun being rolled out
HappenedSeptember - October 2021: Delivery of a further five Bereavement and Loss Awareness webinars, taking the total to ten sessions
HappenedThrive LDN and the Mayor’s Peer Outreach Team host London’s World Mental Health Day festival, led by and for young Londoners.
HappenedOctober 2021: Engagement around the wellbeing champion concept and resources stepped up
HappenedNovember 2021: Ubele/BAMEStream trial bereavement training offers to support black Londoners
HappenedNovember 2021: All London boroughs offered free training for councillors supporting mentally healthier conditions for both themselves and the communities they serve via webinars by Thrive LDN
HappenedMarking National Grief Awareness Week, Good Thinking launched a workbook on how to support a bereaved person in a culturally sensitive way
HappenedWinter 2021: Research into existing 'community champions' networks, mapping what already exists in London and opportunities to engage with and support these champions with additional resources, tools and training
HappenedCelebrated London's first Great Mental Health Day, which aims to get us talking about mental health and how we can improve our wellbeing
HappenedSupported Children's Mental Health Week
HappenedThrive LDN hosted a roundtable on support for children and young people with bereavement and loss, attended by charity partners, policymakers, education sector staff and young Londoners with lived experience of loss
HappenedFebruary 2022: Good Thinking launch faith-based bereavement resources for Buddhism, Judaism and Islam
HappenedFebruary 2022: Ubele/BAMEStream hold immersive bereavement workshops for councillors, therapists, community workers and others supporting Londoners from Black or racialised communities experiencing grief, bereavement and loss
HappenedFebruary 2022: Launch of radical self-care training workshops by Thrive LDN in partnership with the Innovation Unit and Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
HappenedFebruary 2022: projects for the Mayor’s Right to Thrive Innovation Fund underway
HappenedMarch 2022: Good Thinking launch faith-based bereavement resources for Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism
HappenedDiscussion stigma and barriers to bereavement support at the UK Commission on Bereavement Faith Roundtable
HappenedMarked the National Day of Reflection with the UK Commission on Bereavement
HappenedApril 2022: Launch of a short guide for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of displaced Ukrainians arriving to the UK
Happened9 - 18 May 2022: Marked Mental Health Awareness Week, including a Thrive LDN hosted panel on loneliness and the cost of living crisis
Happened16 - 22 May 2022: Celebrated Creativity and Wellbeing Week with a theme of 'get creative, get outdoors;
HappenedCelebrate Right to Thrive projects at event with KCL
HappenedHold workshop with champion groups to develop wellbeing champion programme and resources
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