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For more information on mental health issues, visit these websites and download our resources.

Useful resources

This film has been produced as a service user resource to go with the RCOT NICE accredited forensic guidelines. It has been produced by the Yorkshire and Humber Network for the Forensics Clinical Forum.

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  • clinical practice experiences i.e ‘a day in the life…’,
  • learning from study events
  • service user lived stories – please invite them to share their experiences of occupational therapy.

Recent newsletters

Innovation Award

The inaugural Research, Innovation and Service Evaluation grant awards are NOW OPEN

Each award is worth up to £1000 and three awards are available for research, innovation, or service evaluation projects of occupational therapy in mental health.

Complete the application form and submit by Friday 16th July 2021 - this can be downloaded here.

All applications will be blind reviewed by two peer reviewers.

The awards will be announced on 31st August 2021.

Successful applicants will be asked to write up their project for the RCOT, SS-MH Newsletter and to present at the SS-MH Annual Conference (Free conference attendance for the day of presenting).

Please contact Joanne Inman, Inmanj@edgehill.ac.uk for further information.

Local event small grants

Want to host your own local event and pay travel expenses or costs of speaker, hire a venue or pay for refreshments? Email RCOT-MH enquiries.cotssmh@gmail.com with an outline of your event and rationale for support from RCOT_MH.

Online training

Here are a few online training initiatives which you might find interesting

National Organisations

These links are not an exhaustive list but hopefully will lead you to some helpful information and organisations which as a mental health occupational therapist may be useful to you and your service users: