Folks in Lanarkshire are being inspired to sort out psychological well being stigma and discrimination by way of the humanities.
The Anti-Stigma Arts Fund – operated by See Me, Scotland’s programme to finish psychological well being stigma and discrimination – is now open for the second yr, accepting purposes from people, teams or organisations.
Analysis has proven that the humanities can supply a robust platform to share experiences, and present what the fact is for folks dwelling with psychological well being issues.
Launched in 2021, the primary Anti-Stigma Arts Fund acquired purposes from a spread of organisations and people throughout Scotland, with six initiatives efficiently funded.
For the 2022 fund, proposals are inspired from people, teams of organisations for arts initiatives in any medium that goal to sort out psychological well being stigma and discrimination.
Grants of between £500 and £5000 can be found.
Final yr’s initiatives concerned younger folks, members of a neighborhood affected by suicide; folks with expertise of extreme, complicated and enduring psychological well being issues; transgender and non-binary folks; and Chinese language college students, exploring how the totally different teams expertise psychological well being stigma and open up conversations round psychological well being.
4 movies, one leaflet, one wellbeing pack and a comic book guide, a neighborhood questionnaire, a youth questionnaire, and a programme of therapeutic arts have been produced by way of the fund.
The sixth undertaking, working with Gypsy/Travellers, is now underway following pandemic-related delays.
Maeve Grindall, undertaking officer for communities and precedence teams at See Me, mentioned: “Our first yr of funding confirmed us the ability of the humanities and the way creativity can sort out psychological well being stigma and discrimination.
“The teams concerned have been revolutionary and produced inspiring items that opened up the dialog on stigma, particularly throughout a special vary of communities and audiences.
“We’re excited to see what initiatives and concepts would possibly come from our second yr of funding, and putting an actual emphasis on initiatives which goal to sort out psychological well being stigma and discrimination within the communities the place it's most prevalent.”
The deadline to use for the 2022 fund is midnight on Sunday, November 6.
See Me notably welcomes purposes from historically marginalised teams that may expertise worse psychological well being outcomes, and it’s additionally open to any group that may expertise poor psychological well being outcomes.
Tasks should contain folks with lived expertise of psychological well being issues.
Extra data on the appliance course of and the 2021 initiatives could be discovered on the See Me web site.
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