Publications
You can search here for reports and other publications from Outside the Box. You will also find the posters we have published here. All publications are listed below, or you can browse the A-Z or use the search function on the left.
We have also included publications from other organisations on topics which relate to the projects we are supporting.
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Title: The Mental Health and Well Being of Children and Young People in Dumfries and Galloway
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The Council and NHS in Dumfries and Galloway reviewed the needs of children and young people with mental health problems and their families, and the range of services that are provided. -
Title: The Wider Community Poster
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Ways to get your voice heard -
Title: Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland - Easy Read
Date: 04/02/2008
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Mental Wellbeing in Scotland - Have Your Say -
Title: Updated Our Voice, Our Vote Information
Date: 20/04/2010
Summary:
Parts 1-5 of the Choices information packs.Download: We Are Going To Vote; poster (PDF/3140KB) >>>
Download: Voting Dates; poster (PDF/46KB) >>>
Download: Support Worker; poster (PDF/29KB) >>>
Download: Making Choices; poster (PDF/263KB) >>>
Download: I Said Yes; poster (PDF/4195KB) >>>
Download: Updated Choices Part 5 (PDF/463KB) >>>
Download: Updated Choices Part 4 (PDF/489KB) >>>
Download: Updated Choices Part 3 (PDF/784KB) >>>
Download: Updated Choices Part 2 (PDF/2722KB) >>>
Download: Updated Choices Part 1 (PDF/685KB) >>>
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Title: Voting By Proxy
Date: 01/04/2010
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A note explaining what voting by proxy is; how, where and when to do it.Download: Voting By Proxy (PDF/27KB) >>>
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Title: West Dunbartonshire Mental Health Forum
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Information about the meetings, what happens, everyone's role at the meeting and more. -
Title: What Helps People Participate in Planning for Good Mental Health in their Community?
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Working paper. -
Title: What Recovery Means For People From The Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
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This short project was started in December 2006 when it was identified that there was very little, if any, involvement in the local recovery networks by people from the Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
The main aim of this project was to explore the understanding of the concepts of recovery by people from the Black and Minority Ethnic Communities.
The project was a partnership between women from the BME communities in Glasgow, Outside the Box, the Scottish Recovery Network, the National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health and Glasgow Association for Mental Health. The information from the project is being used by the organisations to help them plan their future work.
This report has been put together by the women who took part in the project and Margaret Timoney from Outside the Box. -
Title: Where are we now? Updated Project Report
Date: 01/09/2008
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Last year we talked to people in South East Glasgow about what local services could do to make life better for people who live with mental health needs. This was to help the South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership find out whether recent service developments were having an impact. The report describes how the tool used to gather people’s views worked, and what people said about their experiences and priorities for change.
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Title: Working Toward Policy Context
Date: 01/08/2009
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The Working Towards project is supporting the development of new user-led services.
This is what we mean by ‘user-led services’.
• There are practical services that deliver care, advice, information, training, or some other practical activity. The services bring benefits to individual people.
• The services are led by the people who will be using those services, or by people who share very similar circumstances to the target service user group (or members, or consumers, or clients, or other term that the people in that situation prefer to use).
• Leadership comes from the people who will be using the services around the values and direction of the service, and around the practical day-to-day service delivery. Sometimes, this will mean that everyone leading the service – for example, on the board of a voluntary organisation – will be someone with experience of using the services that the organisation delivers. In other examples other people will also be involved but there will be a majority of people with relevant lived experience.
This approach to services brings together several current strands of policy and good practice which are themselves inter-linked.
• User-led services have the potential to contribute to the achievement of each of these principles and aims.
• These policies can be used as part of showing why developing a new user-led service is a good answer to a particular problem or gap in what is available now.
• The good practice that is emerging round each of these policies will strengthen and support the development and delivery of user-led services, as well as strengthening more traditional forms of service delivery.
This note lists the main policy initiatives affecting people in Scotland. It also has references to policy and good practice sources for people who want further information. We have listed some resources under several headings to make it easier for people using the note as a reference source: this reflects the ways in which these issues are interconnected.
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