Today (31 May 2019) the DBI programme was extended to include 16 and 17-year-olds in Lanarkshire and the Borders. It now means the connected, compassionate support which DBI-trained staff provide to those in distress, is now available to 16 and 17-year-olds in Lanarkshire and the Borders. The extension will take place in Aberdeen and [...]
DBI Level 2 providers in Lanarkshire – Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health, The Richmond Fellowship and Lifelink – received updated training from Dr Rory O'Connor and Dr Jack Melson from the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Health & Wellbeing, as part of the DBI programme’s extension to include 16 and 17-year-olds. [...]
Representatives from some of the national DBI programme partners – Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS24 and Support in Mind Scotland – joined DBI programme manager Kevin O’Neill to run a workshop for delegates at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland annual conference at Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow. The workshop [...]
A Lanarkshire woman has praised DBI saying it’s helped ‘change her life’. Julia Stachurska, 19, reached a very low point in her life last summer after a series of personal setbacks took their toll on her mental health resulting in her attempting to end her life. Thankfully Julia’s mother intervened and took her to [...]
Mental Health Minister Clare Haughey MSP has announced the DBI project will be extended to 16 and 17-year-olds across the four pilot areas. Currently operating across Lanarkshire, the Borders, Inverness and Aberdeen, it provides support to people aged 18 and over who present to emergency services and primary care in distress or emotional pain. [...]
The Chief Medical Officer for Scotland align DBI so closely with Realistic Medicine and careful kind and compassionate responses an ever increasing thread running through so many related programmes. Mental health is featured strongly, early on in the report, with illustrations of careful and kind ‘medicine’. The report is well worth a full read, with [...]
