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This information booklet supports the “How are you feeling?” mental health campaign that is running in participating community pharmacies in April and May 2021. It is available during this time from community pharmacies across Northern Ireland that participate in the Living Well service.

The booklet includes:

• Information on the Take 5 steps to wellbeing
• Ideas and activities you can try
• Advice and tips on setting goals
• Information on services that can provide help and support

Lifeline in partnership with the Health and Social Care Board and Interpreter Now is increasing its visibility and accessibility to the Deaf community.  

If you are in distress or despair, you can contact Lifeline using the HSCNI Remote Interpreting Service for people who use British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL). InterpreterNow enables Deaf and hearing people to communicate instantly via telephone or web-based video link.

By signing up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment in February 2022 NIAS has made a commitment to making our organisation a place where the importance of promoting and supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our people is recognised.

For the blue light community, signing up to the Commitment represents a collective move­ment across all emergency services and throughout the UK; it’s a statement of intent, declar­ing that mental health at work is a strategic priority for all.

Prioritising mental health in the emergency services has never been more important. With plenty of information, resources and real-life stories to support emergency responders The Blue Light Together website and their real life stories are here to help you.

At The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC), we provide a range of services to support the mental health, physical rehabilitation, and financial wellbeing of the UK’s ambulance staff, their family members, students, and ambulance service volunteers.

Sporting Pride Ireland works across NI and ROI to get LGBTQ people more active to improve mental and physical health. We have a directory of LGBTQ Inclusive Sports teams across the country and run online seminars where professional LGBTQ Athletes talk about mental and physical health journeys.

At The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC), we provide a range of services to support the mental health, physical rehabilitation, and financial wellbeing of the UK’s ambulance staff, their family members, students, and ambulance service volunteers.

The Rainbow Project is a health organisation that works to improve the physical, mental & emotional health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people and their families in Northern Ireland.

We are the foremost LGBTQIA+ organisation in Northern Ireland and have two centres: one in Belfast city centre and the other in Foyle, L’Derry.

Recognising that we all need
a little extra help and support
at this time, the five Health
and Social Care Trusts in
Northern Ireland have linked
with the Public Health Agency
(PHA) and Northern Ireland
Ambulance Service (NIAS) to
encourage everyone to talk
about the ‘elephant in the
room’, in other words, the
things that we often choose
to ignore – our emotions and
how we feel.
 

Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke interactive webinars empower people to make informed lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk of developing chest, heart and stroke illnesses.

The webinars are available on a wide range of topics, providing
the information and tools needed to enable individuals to look after
and improve their health. Webinars can be delivered live or recorded.

These five directories list the names, numbers and web addresses (where applicable) of organisations that offer services to help improve mental health and emotional wellbeing. Where possible, additional information has also been provided, such as email addresses and contact details within each Health and Social Care Trust area.