Have Your Say: LGBTQ+ Mental Health

The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) are looking for a range of people from all over Scotland with different life experiences and perspectives to join the new Diverse Experiences Advisory Panel for Mental Health and Wellbeing (DEAP). MHF have reached out to us here at LGBT Health to help find those from the LGBTQ+ community with lived experience of mental health who might wish to join the Advisory Panel.

Here at LGBT Health and Wellbeing, we think that the DEAP is an excellent opportunity for queer folks who are interested in mental health policy, LGBTQ+ policy or are simply passionate about tackling mental health inequalities experienced by LGBTQ+ people here in Scotland, to become involved in the policy shaping process. We believe this opportunity to have LGBTQ+ voices at the table when discussing mental health prevention, policy and service provision is critical to ensure these spaces are safe(r), affirmative and accessible to all LGBTQ+ folks.

Funded by the Scottish Government, the panel is open to those aged 18 and over with lived experience of mental health. The panel aims to include a diverse range of folks from all walks of life, including:

  • LGBTQ+ folks
  • Those with mental health conditions
  • Black and minority ethnic people
  • Disabled people
  • Refugee and asylum seekers
  • Those with experience of substance use
  • People from low socio-economic backgrounds

If you have one (or more) of these identities, then your perspective could be invaluable to the shaping of Scotland’s future mental health policy.

We are very much supporting the MHF in their search for LGBTQ+ folks to join the panel, if you are interested and wish to discuss the opportunity with a staff member from LGBT Health please contact Rebecca on rebecca@lgbthealth.org.uk

For more information, click here to view the official website or here to fill out the MHF’s online form. BE QUICK – the deadline for applicants is 7th April 2022.

If you wish to talk to someone from the MHF directly about the possibility of joining the panel, contact Mairi Gordon, Senior Participation Officer at MHF at m.gordon@mentalhealth.org.uk

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