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A CUMBRIAN charity is raising local awareness to coincide with World Mental Health Day tomorrow.
Cumbria Deaf Association has joined a new steering group to address how services can be improved locally.
The organisation, based in Compton Street, Carlisle, is working with the North Cumbria Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Trust.
It is compiling a handbook for trust staff, offering advice about working with people suffering from hearing problems.
They will also offer deaf awareness training.
In addition, CDA’s Deafness In Cumbria website will soon include a dedicated section on mental health.
The new steering group also includes representatives of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service, local service users and Adult Social Care. It is being headed by Joanne Lee, patient liaison officer at the Carleton Clinic.
The CDA says mental health is a huge issue for deaf people because of communication problems they can have accessing services and the social isolation.
The group has been set up in recognition of this and other mental health issues.
CDA is a voluntary organisation for Cumbrians who are profoundly deaf, deaf/blind, deafened or hard of hearing.
It currently has offices in Carlisle, Barrow, Whitehaven and Kendal. For more information visit website Cumbria Deaf Association - Welcome to the Cumbria Deaf Association.
To coincide with World Mental Health Day a host of awareness events will be taking place at the Old Town Hall in Carlisle on Tuesday.
A CUMBRIAN charity is raising local awareness to coincide with World Mental Health Day tomorrow.
Cumbria Deaf Association has joined a new steering group to address how services can be improved locally.
The organisation, based in Compton Street, Carlisle, is working with the North Cumbria Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Trust.
It is compiling a handbook for trust staff, offering advice about working with people suffering from hearing problems.
They will also offer deaf awareness training.
In addition, CDA’s Deafness In Cumbria website will soon include a dedicated section on mental health.
The new steering group also includes representatives of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service, local service users and Adult Social Care. It is being headed by Joanne Lee, patient liaison officer at the Carleton Clinic.
The CDA says mental health is a huge issue for deaf people because of communication problems they can have accessing services and the social isolation.
The group has been set up in recognition of this and other mental health issues.
CDA is a voluntary organisation for Cumbrians who are profoundly deaf, deaf/blind, deafened or hard of hearing.
It currently has offices in Carlisle, Barrow, Whitehaven and Kendal. For more information visit website Cumbria Deaf Association - Welcome to the Cumbria Deaf Association.
To coincide with World Mental Health Day a host of awareness events will be taking place at the Old Town Hall in Carlisle on Tuesday.