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Mental Health Reform

By Ingé Lisa on Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 in News.

      Dear Supporter, Mental Health Reform has just launched two national surveys on peoples experience of mental health services! The first one is for people with personal experience of mental health services: Take the survey! The second one is for family members, friends, and carers, on their views of mental health services: Take the […]


Information session on media suicide reporting guidelines

By Kate Morgan on Monday, November 6th, 2017 in News.

Connecting for Life, sets out a vision where fewer lives are lost through suicide, and where communities and individuals are empowered to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The National Office for Suicide Prevention’s (NOSP) local Action Plan Connecting for Life Dublin South East, Dún Laoghaire and East Wicklow Action Plan 2015 – 2020 (www.connectingforlifeCHO6.ie) lays out very […]


The Basin Club Celebration of Recovery Hosted by Charleville Mall Library in Dublin’s North Inner City

By Kate Morgan on Monday, November 6th, 2017 in News.

On Thursday 10th October the Basin Club held the launch of our creative arts’ booklet Metaphoric Showers and Mind Symphonies, officially opening this year’s Arts’ Exhibition. Around eighty members of the club, friends, family and staff were eagerly joined by the Minister of State for Mental Health Mr. Jim Daly T.D., who, assisted by Fergal in cutting […]


Hearing Voices Seminar – Shine and DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences

By Kate Morgan on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 in Events, Featured, News.

Keynote address by Peter Bullimore, Hearing Voices Network UK Shine and DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences would like to invite you to our joint Hearing Voices Seminar on 1st December 2017, 1pm-4pm in the DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences, 620 Collins Ave Ext, Whitehall, Dublin 9.  . There will be a keynote address […]


We are Hiring – are you our new Headline Consult Media Support Officer?

By Cillian Russell on Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 in News, Vacancies.

     Headline Consult Media Support Officer Reporting to:  National Projects Team Leader Full time post (35hrs per week), Permanent Contract Salary – Grade IV Point 1 – €28,330 Location: Currently in Maynooth but Shine reserves the right to change location. Reporting to: National Projects Team Leader Headline is the National Programme dedicated to promoting […]


Using plain English

By Kate Morgan on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 in News.

    Plain English is a way to present information so that the reader understands your message the first time they read it. Using plain English is an ethical and fast way to communicate particularly in a society where we suffer from information overload. Celebrate international Plain Language Day on 13 October by reading free resources on plain English. See […]


Acting for the Future: Recent Awards and Upcoming Events

By Kate Morgan on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 in News.

  Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company are delighted and honoured to be awarded the daa Arts Award at the Allianz Business to Arts Award Ceremony 2017 at Board Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin. The event, which took place on 4 September 2017, was a powerful celebration of world-class partnerships across the arts and business. Mary […]


See Change Workplace Programme

By Kate Morgan on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 in News.

  See Change has identified the workplace as a key setting for social change around attitudes to mental health problems to take place. In 2015 See Change launched its Mental Health in the Workplace pledge programme and since then has been working with Irish workplaces to create an open culture around mental health and reduce […]


Shine and the Irish College of Psychiatrists Conference

By Kate Morgan on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 in News.

  Perspectives for the Professionals, the role of the family in prompting recovery, took place in the Tower Hotel Waterford on Friday 22nd September 2017.     Chaired by John Saunders, CEO of Shine and Dr Miriam Kennedy, Director of communications and public education, college of Psychiatrists of Ireland, this one day event brought together a range of professionals, people with self-experience of mental health difficulties and their relatives to […]




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