13 Dec. Forum Central Joint Network Meeting
Joint Network Meeting | Wednesday 13 December 2023, 1 - 3pm at Swarthmore We're ending the year with an extra special network meeting! This in-person event is a chance to meet other network members, celebrate, [...]
5 Dec. An Introduction to Non Violent Resistance (NVR) Training
6.00pm - 7.30pm, Tuesday 5 December 2023 Join the Garden Court Chambers Family Team in person or online for this free training on Non Violent Resistance (NVR) with Amanda Meusz, of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team, and Rachel [...]
Synergi-Leeds awarded Mental Health Innovation of the Year
Forum Central is enormously proud to be part of the Synergi-Leeds partnership. We'd like to congratulate everyone in the team and beyond who have worked so hard - it's a fantastic achievement. We look forward [...]
IDODP Marketplace event is almost here!
That's right, the Leeds For All International Day of Disabled People event is approaching fast - we hope you're as excited as we are. With only a week left to go, we wanted to update [...]
University Research into Inpatient Mental Health Wards
A PhD student at the University of Leeds is developing a questionnaire (survey) to understand and measure how safe it is for adult service users when they are discharged from acute inpatient mental health wards [...]
Upcoming Open Training at Basis Yorkshire
Basis Yorkshire designs and delivers training aimed at improving understanding and insights into recognising and working with young people and women experiencing exploitation as well as working with women who sex work. They pride themselves [...]
Transforming Mental Health Grants Now Live
The City-Wide and Local Responses Transforming Mental Health Grants are now live! The deadline to apply for the grants is Friday 8 December at 12 noon and decisions on applications will be made in February [...]
Women’s Health Matters Domestic Violence Training
Domestic Violence and Abuse: Learning from Lived Experience and Practitioners (In-person) This course has been co-produced and is co-delivered with victims/survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) by Women's Health Matters Leeds. About the course It offers [...]
Free Safeguarding Adults Training for Volunteers
Leeds City Council are providing free Safeguarding Adults training courses for volunteers across the city. The courses cover: what safeguarding adults is and why it is important the role and responsibility of the volunteer in [...]
Living with Lived Experience Film Project
West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership, Forum Central, University of Leeds and different VCSE organisations from across West Yorkshire have contributed to a film project which highlights the different people with lived experience of mental [...]
Mental Health Transformation Update | Edition 2 Sept 2023
This is the second edition of the Transformation Update which includes brief information about progress made towards delivering transformed community mental health care in Leeds. Key excerpt from the Progress Update: Although initially planned to [...]
Improving Mental Health when Living in Leeds
PMAC: Mental Health and Wellbeing Training has created a small document which contains useful tips to help people and employers improve their mental health whilst living in Leeds. The document focusses on getting outdoors, connecting [...]
Free MHFA and Cultural Competence Training – West Yorkshire
Community Links and All About inclusion are running free 2.5 day training sessions (thanks to funding from Forum Central and West Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Hub) on Cultural Competence, Mental Health Inequalities, and Mental Health [...]
NHS Race and Health Observatory
The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) has been commissioned by the NHS Race & Health Observatory (RHO) to help co-design a model that organisations can use to be anti-racist and to tackle racial inequalities in [...]
University of Leeds Mental Health Inpatient Care Study
Have you been discharged from mental health inpatient care, or cared for someone who has? Researchers at the University of Leeds are conducting an interview study which is interested in the factors that keep people safe [...]