Amanda Skeate

We can support young people facing #homelessness through our emergency grants. These grants can cover a deposit, or rent arrears, and can awarded within days. For frontline workers like Kerry @StBasilsCharity, this can be a life-saver. Find out more: loom.ly/SbnR1hE

@GuzKhanOfficial Thank you for speaking up

The Great Riot of Disinformation…☹️😬

How can we tackle the negative perceptions of the youth homelessness crisis? Today Dr @grace_tidmarsh & community partners @StBasilsCharity launch a poetry ebook called 'What Makes Home' - to explore young people's experiences and provide insight into this widespread social issue

A retired psychiatrist with some clout said, “We stopped blaming parents for schizophrenia.” Extreme childhood trauma caused my schizophrenia and my parents were to blame. Of course, I have matured quite a bit since my 19-year struggle with schizophrenia ended and I don’t go around blaming my parents because I understand why and how things came to be and take full responsibility for my own life, but for this retired psychiatrist to speak like what happened to me didn’t happen is not only insensitive but is disgraceful. There are thousands and thousands of us who have made complete recoveries, and we don’t need anyone to rewrite our stories for us. We can speak for ourselves. Sorry if your credentials and training have led you astray. Sorry, you just can’t imagine someone overcoming the worst of circumstances. Just because you haven’t come across anyone like me doesn’t make it untrue. It just means I have been leading a very productive life and haven’t needed MH services for decades. Many of us recoverees have tried over and over to tell you we have truly recovered and healed, but you have dismissed it because it doesn't align with your narrative or agenda.

We believe this ecosystem approach to social care is far more regenerative and creates deeper social roots in communities; rather than short-term and often ineffective ‘interventions’.

When you do any depth of work with people with trauma, you will find such things as the below to have little-to-no basis in real life. These are psychiatric abstractions mistaken for reality, and they are not even accurate mistakes.

Running the London Marathon this weekend or know someone who is? Check out our 5 top tips to support your mental performance in this new blog by @DrReynard1 sprintproject.org/post/sprint-pr… A special shout out to all those running for our longstanding partner @StBasilsCharity!

Fantastic opportunities @ Centrepoint to help #endyouthhomelessness. 8a roles in Yorkshire/London - Indirect/direct work with staff/YP (16-25 yrs) in an inclusive, growing & diverse team. Details here or DM for further info: jobs.centrepoint.org.uk

2/3 Also fascinating to hear ⁦@ProfDonnaHall⁩ ⁦@HilaryCottam⁩ ⁦@HelenWBTeam⁩ giving their insights to where to begin with public service reform-‘we need to build upon the groundswell of relational work that is emerging nationally’

@StBasilsCharity Brilliant news!

Presented Pathfinder learning at the Steps to Stronger Partnership conference today-heard about amazing regional work. Consensus re: need 4 sustained relational work, braver LA approaches +flexibility from philanthropic trusts. 💚 #STSP24 ⁦@weareROC⁩ ⁦@mcneil_tom⁩

Conversations about trust at work often focus on the relationship between leaders & their teams. As (or more) important is trust between team members. Research with 1,000 workers identified five trust-based behaviours that set the highest performing teams apart. These teams: 1) establish norms for collaboration 2) keep colleagues informed 3) share praise & credit for work done well 4) believe disagreements make them better 5) proactively address tensions in the team Trust isn’t relayed by leaders from the top down. It’s built organically on a foundation of behaviors exhibited by all team members that enables everyone to produce their best hbr.org/2024/01/how-hi… By @RonFriedman

The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change madintheuk.com/2023/11/the-ne…

Download "A practical guide to kindness in the workplace" for free. Chapters include: - The science behind kindness at work - Kindness in leadership - Operationalising kindness - Promoting inclusion & diversity through kindness - Kindness in performance management - Measuring the kindness impact It comes as an embedded flip book but if you make it full screen you can convert it to a pdf and share it: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…. Thank you @hacking_hr

We agree with every word of this. Please RT if you do too.

What an amazing event for World Mental Health Day and our Suicide Prevention series: Recovery and Growth. Learning together, doing together, making our mark on the world! @DrSheryllin @Leah_b_blkOT @bobmaxfield @ASkeate @BWC_MattB @daljitathwal @JoHemming @BWC_NHS

@nick_maguire5 @OHID @NHSEngland @BPSOfficial @CHRPHomeless @SotonPsych @StBasilsCharity absolutely Nick - here in the West Midlands, St Basils is proud to host specialist placements for Clinical Psychology Trainees who are interested in PIE in homelessness settings.

With homelessness services looking to develop Psychologically Informed Environments & Trauma Informed Care, many call on clinical psychologists. New practice-based guidelines highlight the need for clinical psychology provision in homelessness services. homeless.org.uk/news/new-guide…

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@tootscd Totally agree! It forms an integral part of our Motivational Conversations module, part of St Basils Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) Foundation Training.

I started working with this model in 1985 and it’s still a staple in my change store cupboard