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Philip Moisson at Ponthafren Assocation in Newtown with trustee Jan Rogers (left) and new individual rep Sarah Dale (right). Philip recently joined the mental health team at Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations (PAVO) to take up the Participation Officer post left vacant when Carla Rosenthal moved on to become a Community Connector . Philip’s face may well be familiar to many readers as for the past two years he has been the facilitator at Powys Patients’ Council. We met up in Knighton during Mental Health Awareness Week and I found out more about his two roles. Tell us more about your new role as a Participation Officer in the PAVO mental health team? My first involvements with PAVO were when Freda Lacey was in this role, and I was one of the people who participated in things she invited us to. There were events around ‘service user’ and ‘carer’ representation , an anti-social behaviour and mental health research project , and sometimes conferences too. As well as looking...

Hot on the heels of last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week comes this week’s Dementia Awareness Week, 14 – 20 May. There are 45,000 people living with dementia in Wales and the charity Alzheimer's Society Cymru is encouraging everyone to 'unite against dementia’: “Dementia is set to be the 21st century’s biggest killer. But together we can raise awareness, offer help and understanding, and urgently find a cure.” There’s a lot going on in Powys this week but this blog post is just going to focus on a couple of initiatives that are running to help support people living with dementia in the county. Dementia Friendly Shopping Jeni Hall, who is the PR Ambassador at the Sainsbury’s Welshpool store, recently got in touch to tell me about the Dementia Friendly Shopping initiative which started at the store earlier this year. Jeni explains: “At the end of last year, we pledged to become a Dementia Friendly store. Since then, one of our colleagues has become a volunteer Dementia Fri...

Yesterday Phil and I set up an information stand in Knighton Library to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 8 – 14 May. The annual awareness week has been hosted by the charity the Mental Health Foundation since 2000 and previous themes have included relationships, mindfulness and sleep deprivation. This year’s theme is Surviving or Thriving ? “We all have mental health. Good mental health is an asset that helps us to thrive. This is not just the absence of a mental health problem, but having the ability to think, feel and act in a way that allows us to enjoy life and deal with the challenges it presents. Yet it can be easy to assume that ongoing stress is the price we have to pay to keep our lives on track. It is time to challenge that assumption”. Following the sad loss late last year of a young man to suicide in the Knighton area, local people have been keen to raise awareness of the support that is available to people experiencing emotional distress of any sort and for any ...

This week’s guest author is Heather Wenban, the Project Development Officer – Dementia Care, at Powys Teaching Health Board. I first heard Heather speak at the Dementia Supportive Communities event in North Powy in 2016 , and later found out that she had set up a “Walk and Talk” group in the area for people with dementia, those close to them, and staff members. Following a successful season of walks in 2016, this year’s programme is about to start with the first walk scheduled to take place during Dementia Awareness Week 14 – 20 May 2017. Heather says: “the walk will take place in Newtown leaving the Gravel Car park (the smaller car park) on Tuesday 16th May, at 2pm. This will be followed by tea in the Elephant & Castle. All welcome to join the group.” Over to Heather to tell us more about how the Walk and Talk group came about: Whilst I was working as part of the Adult Mental Health team in Shropshire I became involved in the regular Walk & Talk groups they initiated, du...