Charter Action Plan surgery: top tips for developing and embeddingthe action plan in your organisation

Hayley Jarvis, Community Programmes Manager (Sport)

Steve McFadyen, Clubs & Disability Manager - Table Tennis

England

Who are Mind?

We’re Mind, the mental health charity.

We’re here to make sure anyone with a

mental health problem has somewhere to

turn for advice and support.

What is Mind’s Sport Offer? Get Set to Go:

75,000 people with mental health problems access to community

sport between now and October 2017

Information and resources including media campaigns

Training for the sports sector

Delivered in 8 areas, scaling up in 2017

Sport and MH network to share good practice

• Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation

• Campaigning and lobbying

• Supporting the local Mind network to establish sport and physical

activity programmes

• Working in partnership

Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation

• Create a welcoming, inclusive and positive

environment for everyone to participate in

sport and recreation.

• Encourage people to talk about mental

health.

• Support people to seek help and support

when needed.

The Charter aims:

Mind’s role in supporting the Charter Here to help you to develop your action plan

Support you through providing;

- Access to resources e.g. Guide to language and terminology,

imagery, resources for staff and volunteers about keeping well.

- Training such as online webinars about well-being in the

workplace

- Advice recruiting and supporting ambassadors with MH problems

- Signposting

Mental Health Charter Journey……

Base Stage of MHC journey

Waiting to bat not yet signed up

1st signed up

2nd discussing next steps

3rd action plan drafted

4th action plan complete –

implementation

Your Charter Action Plan needs to consider (where appropriate) …..

Charter action plan

Athletes and

officials

Employees

Volunteers Participants

Fans and spectators

1. Promote wellbeing

2. Promote and adopt good mental health

policies and best practice

3. Promote positive messages using diverse role

models and ambassadors

4. Tackle discrimination

5. Support a pan-sport approach and share

resources and best practice

6. Monitor your performance, assess progress

and take positive action on mental health

issues

Your Charter Action Plan needs to consider (where appropriate) …..

Over to Steve!

Over to you!

Common themes what works…

1. Using the templates provided

2. Bringing together a team of people to support (or

adding MHC as an agenda item to an existing

meeting)

3. Mapping what you already offer and identify the

gaps

4. Being realistic with your time and expectations

5. Explaining why you are doing this work

Active Tameside are in the process of transforming into a health and wellbeing organisation from the help and support we are offering our customers, wider Tameside residents in addition to introducing health and wellbeing initiatives with our people. Joining the Mental Health Charter is a natural progression to ensure we are equally promoting positive mental health as well as positive physical health.

The Alliance was inspired to help deliver a Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation by the drive within our membership and the professional players associations to do something positive in this area. We want to facilitate a culture change within our sector so that people – players, coaches, volunteers and staff - feel able to talk about mental health and are able to seek help and support when needed.

Questions

• Send us your action plans

• Send us your case studies

• World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2015

• Time to Talk Day – 4 Feb 2016

• Charter one-year anniversary – March 2016

What next?

sport@mind.org.uk

Contact detailsHayley JarvisCommunity Programmes Manager (Sport)h.jarvis@mind.org.uk 07796447894#GetSetToGo