SEE ME - Key Persons
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- Project Officer - Communities and Priority Groups
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- Project Officer - Young People
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- Project Officer - Lived Experience Participation
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- Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland
I speak to mental health nurses. They tell me they feel they are discriminated against because they're mental health nurses and not general nurses. Even within our profession, we at times are missing the respect that we ought to have for all practitioners. That feeds down into people with mental health problems, because they often feel secondary, second class, not taken seriously. And if we don't challenge that and we don't face up to that, then we're never going to change it
The reason we think that a movement is the best way to end stigma and discrimination in Scotland is because the messages and action to end stigma and discrimination can be taken far beyond the reach of See Me. The movement is able to identify and tackle local issues and have access to opportunities at a national level that See Me doesn't.
And it's so important they do. 37% of people in Scotland have witnessed someone experiencing stigma or discrimination because of a mental health problem. The movement can be used to help educate all of us so that everyone in Scotland is empowered to challenge this.
Expanding the movement is all about taking the impact you've had and building on it, and sharing that learning with others.
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- Chairman of the See Me Advisory Group
Even though more people are talking about mental health, we still have a huge issue with stigma, and we need to keep challenging it, and totally normalise mental health, so that we don't have to let people know it's okay to talk about mental health
There is still a long way to go before we have achieved our aims. 35% of people with experience of a mental health problem do not feel comfortable talking openly about their own mental health. We want everyone to be able to talk openly about their mental health without fear of discrimination.
Where does the social movement still need to go to make change and what should the message be moving forward? The future of the movement will continue to act on the knowledge of its member's, the experiences of inequality which we need to change and continuing to challenge stigmatising and unfair systems.
The future of the movement means more people starting, developing and expanding their journey, people like you.
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- Associate Medical Director, South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership
I think one of the best bits about See Me is the number of organisations and people that it brings together. You've got people with lived experience; you've got carers and user groups involved and you've also got the professional voice there as well. I think it doesn't get much more powerful than that.
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- Senior Communications Officer
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- Project Officer - Communities and Priority Groups
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- Global Leader in Anti - Stigma Activity
Increase learning through gathering, applying and testing the evidence of what works to change attitudes, behaviours and cultures to end mental health stigma and discrimination.
Our vision is for a fair and inclusive Scotland, free from mental health stigma and discrimination.
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- Programme Manager - Communities and Priority Groups
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- Communications and Public Affairs Manager
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- Programme Manager - Settings
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- Project Officer - Communities and Priority Groups
I think we've exceeded where I thought we'd have been in the beginning, initially I think I looked at it as a school and the need to tackle it as a school. But we have opened that up, we've got the community involved, parents are more open and we've got young people going home and talking about mental health.
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- Project Officer - Health and Social Care