Applications for Mental Health Services Reference Group

Are you someone who uses Mental Health Services?

**The closing date for applications has been extended to Friday the 4th of July**
*If you wish to apply online we have a Word document version above*

For service users/family members and carers who are involved or have an interest in Mental Health Services

This is about becoming a member of the Reference Group to the Office of Service User, Family Member and Carer Engagement in Mental Health Division.
Following consultation with a representative group of national non-governmental organisations working in mental health and local consumer panels in 2013, a number of issues and actions were identified to advance the implementation of A Vision for Change in a collaborative manner including:

• establishing a Reference Group to examine a range of issues including the appointment of nine service user engagement personnel who will sit on the Area Mental Health Management Teams and examine the broader issues of engagement, capacity building etc. in more detail.

The Office of Service User Engagement in Mental Health Division are seeking applications from members of the public who have an interest in Mental Health Services to become a member of a Reference Group for a period of one year.  Its purpose is to examine a range of issues and more local service users.  To influence policy and to build capacity in the mental health service. 
In order to apply for this post the applicant must be:

1. A Service User
2. or a family member
3. A service or carer of a service user. 

Applications must also have an active role or involvement within a mental health organisation e.g fund raising, participating in self help groups.
Please bring this notice to the attention of service user, family members and carers in your area.
You can find an application form here or you can contact Valerie Greville in the HSE: Email valerie.greville1@hse.ie
There are also guidance notes available on filling out the form.
If you have any queries please contact john.mccusker@hse.ie

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It is with great sadness that we are announcing one of Gateway's most beloved and respected tutors, the wonderful George Ferguson, has passed away.

Writing creates a joyful bond

George worked and supported the development of the Gateway creative writing group for many years as a part time tutor with the City of Dublin VEC.  Creative writing through George became a steady feature at Gateway providing an important outlet for many of our writers to explore and nurture their talents as well as providing a space to make friends and share with others from the local community.  How George came to writing, publishing and teaching later in life is the basis of a short piece he wrote for writing.ie entitled Finding Your Niche which describes in his own words the joy he found in writing and teaching.

We will be forever grateful to George for his generosity of spirit, his charming humour, encouragement and inspired commitment to creative writing and the people involved in it at Gateway.  The writing group is still going strong and testament to this good work. The group is now under the guidance of Maria Jones, a kindred spirit we believe and one as dedicated to the joyful bond as George.

Fondly missed by those who had the good fortune to know him.  Our heartfelt sympathies extend to his family and loved ones.

May George rest in peace, love and light.

With thanks and solidarity,

Fionn

For details of George's memorial service, please see the Irish Times notice of the 27 May 2014.

FERGUSON, George Wesley - May 18, 2014 (at home, suddenly but peacefully). Husband of Florence; father of Kenneth, Stephen and Christine; grandfather of Helen, Jane, Kate, Ruth and Rachel. Devoted companion of Mary, and encourager of aspirant writers. Body donated to R.C.S.I. for medical research. Memorial Service at Wesley House, Leeson Park, at 7.00 p.m. on Sunday June 1, 2014.