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Mind the Menu
This event for community organisations working with food in the field of mental health and wellbeing took place on Wednesday June 6 at Discovery Point in Dundee.
Sixty people from a range of organisations attended the day. Simon Bradstreet from Scottish Recovery Network and Emma Lyon from NHS Health Scotland provided the policy context for the day. Their presentations are available here.
Simon Bradstreet presentation [PowerPoint, 3.5Mb]
A Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2012-2015 (Emma Lyon) [PowerPoint, 1Mb]
Workshops were provided by Edinburgh Food and Health Training hub, Trellis, Glasgow Association for Mental Health, Augment, The Walled Garden and Wisecraft and Dundee Healthy Living Initiative.
The day was a good opportunity for people working on food and mental health and wellbeing to meet, share information and resources.
A full report on the day is now available.