PUBLICATIONS
Knowledge is powerVOX and its partners produce numerous publications, and you’re welcome to read these to learn more about mental health issues and the issues that matter to our members.
VOX RESEARCH & CONSULTATION DOCUMENTS
VOX has produced numerous research papers on mental health and issues that matter to our members. Knowledge is power, so please feel free to browse the documents below and contact VOX if they inspire thoughts or queries.
Coronavirus and You – members experiences
VOX SCOTLAND consultation response to Public Sector Employment.
VOX SCOTLAND consultation response to social isolation (3)final
VOX response to the outline draft mental health strategy 2016
VOX Consultation on Psychological Therapies
VOX Response to DWP Consultation
VOX Response to Mental Health Act Review 2009
Good Practice in Service User Involvement 2007
Participation Standard 2009
Rre-Registration Nursing Programmes Consultation 2008
Smoke-free Mental Health Services Consultation
VOX NEWSLETTERS
VOX stays in touch by producing regular newsletters for our members. You can find a copy of the latest VOX Newsletters linked below.
VOX Newsletter – September 2021
VOX Newsletter – July 2021
VOX Newsletter – Archive (View previous newsletters)
Do you have ideas for future newsletters? If so, please don’t hesitate to contact us on info@voxscotland.org.uk – we want to make sure we’re covering the issues that matter to you, our members!
VOX ANNUAL REPORTS
Learn more about our recent work by reading any of the VOX Annual Reports listed below.
VOX BUSINESS PLANS
Learn more about VOX objectives by reading through the latest VOX Development and Business Plan.
VOX DIVERSITY DOCUMENTS
This section will give you access to Vox publications on diversity issues
Mosaics of Meaning Handbook: Partnerships with black and minority ethnic communities to promote mental health
Your Human Rights for people living with Mental Health Problems
UNCRPD Being Part of Scotand’s story under the Disability Convention vox summary report
Muslim Faith and Mental Health resource flyer in English
Muslim Faith and Mental Health resource flyer in Urdu
Muslim Faith and Mental Health resource booklet
Leadership Program reports;
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women and Mental Health report
VOX Dual Diagnosis Report 2015
Report remote and rural May 2015
Domestic Abuse and Mental Health leadership program report 1
Domestic Abuse Project 2015 year 2 V2
VOX COLLECTIVE REPORTS, CONSULTATIONS & MEMBERS FEEDBACK
VOX Collective is a group of lived experience/service user lead organisations from across Scotland that have come together as group members of VOX.
We have a good working relationship with Highland User Group (based in Inverness) and we’re pleased to make some of their feedback and consultation documents available. You may not agree with everything HUG members say but there’s certainly plenty of food for thought here.
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THE PRICE OF FREE GDPR handout
Carers Experiences Report
Smoking in Hospital Grounds Report
Self Harm in Hospital Report
Response to Amendments to 2003 Act Report
Personality Disorder Report
Our expectations of Hospitals Report
Isolation and Loneliness Report
Depression Alliance Report
Compulsory Treatment Report
Changing Psychiatrist Report
TALKS (FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE)
Graham Morgan
HUG Manager Graham Morgan gives regular talks on mental health issues to groups throughout Scotland and uses his own personal experience to illuminate these talks, giving extra personal edge and appeal to his remarks. Please feel free to browse through a sample of Graham’s talks below
Citizens Advice Bureau Talk
Stigma Talk
Solicitors and Mental Health Talk
SDS and Mental Health Talk
Right For Life Talk
Police and Mental Health Talk
New Horizons Borders Recovery Network Talk
Mental Health Officers Talk
Mental Health in the Workplace Talk
Importance of Nature Talk
IIHML Talk
Glenurquhart High School Talk
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION DOCUMENTS
The Mental Health Foundation is a key VOX partner and produces a wide range of documents, from complex research papers to short leaflets on ways of managing mental health conditions. You’ll find a lot of good advice, top tips and coping skills in the documents provided below
Baby Boomers and Mental Health
Children & Young People with Learning Disabilities
Mental Health of Services Personnel
Schizophrenia Factsheet Summary
Schizophrenia Factsheet
Starting Today
OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PUBLICATIONS/DOCUMENTS
Please feel free to read through any of the documents listed below – they all have something interesting to say about mental health and please let us know if any other documents should be listed here.
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Mental Health Strategy 2012 2015
Worried Sick SAMH Report 2014
Attitudes to Mental Health in Scotland 2013
GoWell Financial Stress & Mental Wellbeing 2013 Report
Local Authority Obligation to Promote Mental Wellbeing
Mental Health of Children & Young People 2013
SAMH Report on Physical Activity and Mental Health
Student Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education
UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Easy Read version
UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Results of Scottish Schizophrenia Survey
CRPD shadow report – Scotland – Jan 2017 PDF.docx