Chester mental health charity Platform For Life announces new CEO Chester-based mental health charity Platform for Life has announced the appointment of Philippa Davies as the charity’s new CEO. Platform For Life offers free counselling, art and play therapy, and practical family support, guidance and signposting to low-income individuals and families with services delivered […]
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Chester mental health champion, Platform for Life, has welcomed local businessman, Chris Larsen, in the role of charity ambassador. Established in 2017, Platform for Life provides adults, children and young people in low-income families with a range of free, easy-to-access therapy support within their own communities. Chris is founder of Leap 76, a […]
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Great to meet and share more about our work at Platform for Life with Cheshire High Sheriff Robert Mee, Cheshire Community Foundation’s Debbie Smith and donor Caroline Lyons (not in photo.) We talked a lot about the vital role a service like ours plays in the community and the epidemic of poor mental health that […]
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No sooner has Fathers’ Day come and gone (June 21st) then we turn, the very next day, to marking International Fathers’ Mental Health Day (IFMHD). This day has now been up and running for the last few years. Like so many of these celebratory days I fear it may get overlooked amid the daily blizzard […]
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I’ve worked in Education for 30 years, first as a Geography teacher and then as Headteacher at an Independent school in Guernsey and over the last 3 years at The King’s School in Chester. Having taught and worked with hundreds of children over that time for me there is no doubt that mental health issues […]
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Commentators agree on two things: 1) The coronavirus pandemic is affecting poorer people more. 2) It’s causing a wave of mental health problems. How do these two observations intersect? What is it like at this time to be struggling with poverty and Coronavirus measures and have a mental health problem? Platform for Life, a […]
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We can’t fail to be aware of the mental health crisis in the UK at the moment- in any given year 10% of children under the age of 16 and 25% of adults will experience mental health problems. Our newspapers are full of stories about mental health services under pressure and individuals waiting months and […]
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A medical or social problem? What causes the common mental health problems? You’d think you might hear more about this in the media. The vast majority of spending on mental health goes to the medical profession, so let’s start there – they should know. Funnily enough, there’s no consistent message coming from this quarter. A […]
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