FA Cup Third Round Ties Promote Positive Mental Health

The Fa Cup is a competition for everyone, from big clubs to small and it is one of the biggest competitions in the world. This year the FA of England used the power of the Cup to help show that we all have mental health. To do this all the games in the third round this weekend started one minute later than usual. Games due to start at 3pm started at 3.01pm and games due to start at 5.30pm started at 5.31pm. During this one minute delay, everyone was asked to reflect upon their own mental health and how we can improve it and how we can challenge stigma. This was an important step for the world of football and the response has been very positive.

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By Ken

“Stomp Out Stigma” 2019

Today We gave our walking club a green ribbon twist in the hopes to promote Mental Health Awareness within our community.

Some of us wore green and we all wore our green ribbons with pride. We carried green balloons and stopped to talk any passers by to let them know who we were and what we were doing.

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In Case You Missed It…

“Stomp Out Stigma”

Green Ribbon 2019 “Untangle Your Thoughts”

Yesterday Suaimhneas Clubhouse held their Green Ribbon event “Untangle Your Thoughts”.  The event took place in St. Anne’s Park in Raheny and was attended by other EVE centres and members of the community.  The event was launched by Suaimhneas members Catherine and Liam and Sean Haughey TD, a board member of Suaimhneas.  Sean spoke about mental health awareness with Catherine speaking about what Suaimhneas has to offer. Liam explained what the purpose of the day was and invited people to untangle their thoughts!

We would like to thank all the people who made this event possible, especially the members and staff of Suaimhneas Clubhouse, Our esteemed guests Sean Haughey TD, See Change ambassador Shauna O’ Connor and everyone who came along and took part despite the weather!

 Check out the pictures below of this wonderful event.

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A Little Bag of Possitivity

Be sure to catch us in St. Anne’s Park on Wednesday the 8th of May to support the Green Ribbon Campaign!

During our event”Untangle Your Thoughts” We will be giving out little bags of possitivity…There is one for everyone in the audience!

Captain Standards Episode 15

Dr. Chaos has abandoned the work-ordered-day and takes a look back at his childhood. He tries to get Staff Member Fiona to give him some advice…Can Captain Standards stop him before its too late and save Fiona from Dr. Chaos’ dastardly ways?

Standard 15: “The work-ordered-day engages members and staff together side-by-side in the running of the Clubhouse. The Clubhouse focus on strengths, talents and abilities, therefore the work-ordered-day must not include medication clinics, day treatment or therapy programmes within the Clubhouse”

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Green Ribbon Event 2019 “Untangle Your Thoughts”

This year we have planned an event in St. Anne’s Park Raheny on May 8th at 11.00am to promote the Green Ribbon Campaign.

It’s entitled “Untangle Your Thoughts” and will invite people to free themselves of negative thoughts by replacing them with positive ones – The aim of this is to promote the campaign to as many people as possible in our (soon to be) new community of Raheny. 

We have been granted permission from Dublin City Council to use a small section of the park for our exhibition.

It will consist of two sections of trees – one chaotically decorated with green ribbons and string which will represent tangled thoughts. The other section will be decorated in a more calm, thoughtful way representing untangled thoughts.

People will be asked to write any negative thoughts they may have had on tags and hang them on the tangled section and then write new positive thoughts or affirmations and place them in the untangled section.

The idea is to promote the power of positivity. If we all got into the habit of shutting down the negative thoughts as soon as they enter our heads and replacing them with positive ones maybe we might actually start to believe them!

The Suaimhneas Voice Spring Edition 2019

We are delighted to announce this years first edition of our newsletter The Suaimhneas Voice. Our team worked really hard on this edition and we are really proud of the result.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to the Spring edition and the Suaimhneas Voice team for pulling it together. we really hope you enjoy the read and welcome any feedback!

Please feel free to download and share our newsletter!

The Suaimhneas Voice Spring Edition 2019Download

‘Kick the Stigma’

This morning Suaimhneas Clubhouse held their Green Ribbon event ‘Kick the Sigma’. The event took place in the courtyard of the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre and was attended by people from all over the local area. The event was launched by Suaimhneas member Catherine Bermingham who welcomed everyone and invited Sean Haughey TD, a board member of Suaimhneas, to say a few words. Sean spoke about the importance of starting conversations about mental health and how mental health should be given the same importance as physical health at a national level. Dublin footballers Jack McCaffrey and Philly McMahon then took the first penalty’s of the ‘Kick the Stigma’ competition.

You can view some pictures and videos of the event by clicking on the following links;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0KcbKziKEeaVOysg0Q7NEgo4faTpsCq/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xwNutY05dvteaysOc5kNzMtaUJvLZj9G/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qsq89VowcwzGrdjAk-eJmee9_ZDLDpEN

We would like to thank all the people who made this event possible, especially the members and staff of Suaimhneas Clubhouse, the staff of the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre, our esteemed guests; Sean Haughey TD, Jack McCaffrey and Philly McMahon, and all the local people who came along and took part.

 Check out the pictures below of the this wonderful event.

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