**today at 1pm** please join the Co-PACT team for a presentation with lived experience co-applicant Doreen Joseph, Prof Kam Bhui @KSBhui and Roisin Mooney @Roisin_MM . DM directly for joining details. Check out our pop up exhibition below.
Today we launch the Co-PICS project funded by @NIHRresearch.
@co_pics will use creative approaches & syndemic theory to explore how diverse groups of people experience & cope with multiple conditions including psychosis.
psych.ox.ac.uk/news/launch-o…
ALT Graphical representation of arms interlinked with a camera, microphone and pencil
"Sharing our past experiences can help heal our future", says Eliza
You can look through the #CoPact photos here and reflect on how these experiences can inform our mental health policy-making flickr.com/photos/198122100@…
Eliza is telling us about the photos that she took when she was struggling with her mental health.
She speaks about the importance of the "holders of hope" who stood alongside her when she felt hopeless.
#CoPact
"People might think that these photos don't mean nothing. They mean a lot man!" Bobby Clarke speaking at the @co_pact event in Oxford today.
Watch Bobby and colleagues talking about this fantastic mental health project in this #CoPact video
youtube.com/watch?v=CCrl6oPC…
Doreen Joseph (Lived Experience Researcher) is telling us about the racial inequalities in our mental health system.
Racialised groups (e.g. Black & South Asian people) are more likely to be taken into hospital against their will under the Mental Health Act #CoPact
The photos and captions are the most important output of this project.
This work is all about giving up power and hearing all of the voices that can help improve the way we deliver mental health care, says @KSBhui#CoPact
View the @co_pact exhibition flickr.com/photos/198122100@…
"Throughout our work we have wanted to ensure that the voices of those who are most impacted are present, are not silenced and are facilitated to contribute meaningfully." #CoPact@Roisin_MM
I loved looking at the @co_pact photos, says @karlmarlowe who is welcoming us to Oxford for this day of "reflections and compassion" #CoPact
ALT Dr Karl Marlowe
Chief Medical Officer & Consultant Psychiatrist
Caldicott Guardian/ Responsible Officer for Medical Revalidation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
I've made an audio documentary for @co_pact about the experiences of diverse people detained under the Mental Health Act.
It accompanies a photographic exhibition that's currently on tour, showing tomorrow in Manchester, then in London & Oxford.
youtube.com/watch?v=mlanqfRu…
PHOTO EXHIBITION in Shoreditch, LONDON N1
Chocolate Studios, 4-7pm Wed 11 Oct 2023
Come and see the @co_pact photos taken by people who have experienced compulsory admission to hospital under the Mental Health Act
Share your reactions using #CoPact
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/co-pact-stu…
Look at the incredible @co_pact project
📸 Photographs taken by diverse people detained under the Mental Health Act
👨🏾🏫 Telling their stories & sharing their experiences
💭 Helping us understand and bring about meaningful change
Read the #CoPACT THREAD 👇🏽
It was wonderful to have support from some of our friends at @MMUimproveACT@pullupbarcafe & Azell last night! The first of many collaborations I’m sure!
Live in Manchester!
The @co_pact photo exhibition, fivefourstudios, 54 Oldfield Road, M5 4LZ
It's going on until 7pm so head down if you want to find out what it's like to be taken to a mental health hospital against your will.
View photos online: flickr.com/photos/198122100@…
ALT Photographs displayed for viewing in an exhibition room
View the #CoPACT photo exhibition flickr.com/photos/198122100@…
Taken by people who have experienced compulsory admission to hospital under the Mental Health Act.
An incredibly powerful set of images that demand our attention and our action.