People with mental health needs experience unique types of obstacles in obtaining specialist mental health advice and information and may find mainstream advisory services too daunting or difficult to use.

Feedback tells us that access to information about rights, services and mental health issues can increase peoples’ sense of empowerment and support paths to recovery – reducing exclusion and isolation.

The Inquiring Minds Project offers 4 main services:

1. Advice and Information Sessions:
For service-users and their relatives / friends in accessible locations across Brighton and Hove. Some of these sessions can be made available to disadvantaged or marginalised groups.

2. Information Training Sessions:
For small groups of mental health service-users on matters of particular concern to them.

3. Mental Health Awareness Training:
To local voluntary sector organisations and employers to challenge stigma and discrimination associated with mental ill health.

4. Links with the Service User Involvement Project:
Offering training to service user consultants to help them to participate in service planning and delivery. To complement our service user involvement work, we also work with other health and social care organisations to assess the impact on mental health service user involvement on the development of their services.

Service Opening Hours
The Inquiring Minds service can be contacted 9am - 5pm on Monday - Friday.

We currently offer Advice and Information appointments at Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Buckingham Road. Appointment times vary so call for details.

We will be developing additional outreach sessions soon so watch this space!

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Project Funding

The Inquiring Minds service is funded by The Big Lottery Fund. Downloads Advice and Information Leaflet