Welcome to Hafal's 2010 Road to Recovery campaign!

The Road to Recovery campaign will see Hafal's VW microbus travelling through Wales this summer with 22 county events to spread the word about recovery from serious mental illness. Click here to find out when the bus is near you.

As well as getting a number of important messages across to the people of Wales the campaign will also provide fun summer activities: the 22 events will feature themes such as beach parties, the surfing lifestyle, healthy eating etc. Visitors will also be able to sign up to a special Road to Recovery postcard containing a message on key campaigning issues (see below).

The microbus features an interactive information suite with touch-screen PCs and high-speed internet connection. Catch the bus in your county to find out more about Hafal, recovery and the 2010 journey across Wales!

LATEST NEWS!

Our Road to Recovery campaign, which saw a VW microbus travel to all the counties of Wales to find out what service users and carers want from local services, culminated at our AGM in November.

Commenting on the success of the campaign Hafal Chief Executive Bill Walden-Jones said: "The events which took place across the country were fun and colourful as well as being informative; they were a great team effort and rightly received a lot of public and media interest."

To read about our AGM please visit: http://www.mentalhealthwales.net/mhw/news.php?id=837

 

Check out the microbus's progress on our interactive map

Road to recovery map Gwynedd Ynys Môn Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Wrexham Powys Monmouthshire Torfaen Newport Blaenau Gwent Merthyr Tydfil Caerphilly Cardiff Vale of Glamorgan Rhondda Cynon Taf Bridgend Neath Swansea Carmarthenshire Pembrokeshire Ceredigion

WHAT'S DRIVING THE CAMPAIGN?

The campaign aims to spread the word about mental health recovery. Recovery means regaining mental health and achieving a better quality of life. Hafal's clients – people with serious mental illness and their carers – want the public to know that recovery should be the expectation for all people in Wales with a serious mental illness, and that all mental health services should have this recovery ambition for their clients.

Three specific campaign goals are:

  • Wales has recently been given the power to create new mental health legislation and the Assembly Government has introduced a draft "Measure" (Welsh law). Hafal Members would like the new law and accompanying regulations to give all people with a serious mental illness a legal right to a holistic care plan, and to set out all the areas the care plan should cover. We believe that care plans should include all the areas specified by the Welsh Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act, as follows: Medical treatment; Other forms of treatment including psychological therapies; Personal care and physical well-being; Accommodation; Work and occupation; Training and education; Finance and money; Social, cultural and spiritual aspects; Parenting or caring relationships.
  • We believe that in future all mental health services should be developed and delivered in response to individuals' care plans. This would mean giving each person a 'menu' of services to choose from so that they can exercise choice as much as possible in their recovery.
  • Given the pressure on public spending, we want resources for mental health and social services to be fully protected – and for new resources to bring mental health services up to scratch.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

For more information on recovery, click here.

For more on Hafal's services in your area, click here.

For the weblog of Hafal's Chief Executive Bill Walden-Jones please visit – "Bill's Blog".