Congrats to the NI Counselling Forum on 21 years! 🎉
They’ve backed #Give5 as we discussed the campaign’s future.
Strong support for new conversations on mental health, fairer access to counselling & broader healing options.
#ReduceOverprescribing #Step2
Our #NewScript activists have been taking part in Mindful Photography Workshops with the amazing Lynne Connolly at Glór na Móna over the last few weeks 📸
Providing community-based, creative options for healing and connection is key in tackling the mental health crisis 💙
#Give5
Thanks to Jane at Belfast Tool Library for taking #NewScript activists through the first of 3 mindful woodwork sessions!
Great conversations had about the root causes of poor mental health and the importance of #choice in how we manage our own mental health.
#Give5
On Friday at @themacbelfast.bsky.social activists, bereaved families, artists, experts & musicians came together to say to ‘no more ticking boxes.’
Time for Mike Nesbitt & the Health Department to listen to us and implement the #Give5 framework ⏰
Watch ’Ticking Boxes’👇
youtu.be/WTbxQO6oUbs?...
“Change is inevitable, just like in nature, and nothing is permanent - this gives hope.”
Earlier this week, #NewScript activists met with @springboardopps.bsky.social Youth Ambassadors in the beautiful surroundings of Gairdín an Phobail 🌱 to chat all things #Give5 and New Script!
Community and creativity is at the heart of #NewScript activism, helping people find their voices again, after feeling let down and ignored by those in power.
Storytelling, without shame, stigma, or silencing, can become a real source of strength and solidarity.
#Give5
“The RQIA’s inaction may be in breach of the
High Court ruling. The Health Minister must
step in now. The Health Committee must
demand answers. Families deserve better. Lives
are at stake.”
#Give5
Communities are already leading the way. It’s time the system caught up.
The #Give5 Framework is about government giving communities what they need to thrive: funding, support, freedom from red tape, and above all, a seat at the table.
Learn more 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
Going live for 30 mins to see if I can help 5 people next week. Inspired by @simonsquibb’s advice to give back each week.
Got questions about AI, teaching or learning? Join the chat.
No pitch. Just people.
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#Give5
🗣️Bígí linn!🗣️
#NewScript are hosting a workshop all about the #Give5 Framework this Monday 19th May!
As part of Féile na gCloigíní Gorma and the NI Mental Health Arts Fest, the event will explore how government can take steps to tackle the mental health crisis 🧠
Email sara@pprproject.org
Led by people with lived experience of the mental health system, the #Give5 Framework is designed to sit alongside the Public Health Agency’s Take 5 messaging 5️⃣
Endorsed by all main political parties at Stormont, it outlines what government can do to tackle the mental health crisis.
Our #Give5 workshop with artist Lynne Connolly, exploring wider healing options, was a real tonic! Check out our beautiful books 📚
More with Lynne coming soon - stay tuned 👀
Thanks to @themacbelfast.bsky.social for hosting us 💙
Learn more about #Give5 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
“The campaign has been endorsed by MLAs from all 6 main parties here at Stormont… I think the Minister for Health and Department of Health need to really take notice.”
You too can endorse New Script’s #Give5 campaign here 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
We are sharing this enduring message of hope from much-loved poet Mary Oliver this World Poetry Day 💙
Words have the power to heal.
#WorldPoetryDay2025 #Give5
Thanks to @allianceparty.bsky.social for endorsing #Give5 alongside their colleagues in other political parties! 💙
Great to have all the main political parties endorsing #Give5!
There’s a clear desire and energy for a new conversation, and approach to mental health.
We now look forward to the Department of Health and Mike Nesbitt implementing this framework!
Learn more 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
“We need to treat the roots, we need to treat the cause, and not the symptoms.”
Structural factors such as inequality, discrimination, poverty, unemployment, and lack of housing, are all drivers of poor mental health.
Endorse the #Give5 Framework now 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
The #Give5 Framework asks government to connect mental ill-health to its causes 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
Both the United Nations and the World Health Organisation have called on governments to prioritise community based, alternative, mental health services.
Endorse #Give5 and call on the government to be active in providing different options for healing 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
Being treated with kindness, dignity & respect is a basic human right & need. For us all. How will our actions reflect this today?
#Give5
www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
“We have to ask the question, how do we as a society change this?”
Hear from some of those who came to the #Give5 launch, about how the Framework can be used to change mental health services for the better👇
youtu.be/tu-NdeJSPN0?...
Thank you to Diane Dodds MLA for endorsing #Give5!
She joins MLAs from Sinn Féin, Alliance, @sdlp.bsky.social & @pbp.ie who have all given it their support.
You can endorse it too at www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
The #Give5 Framework outlines practical steps that the government can take to tackle the mental health crisis.
The second step asks them to ‘Be Active’ in challenging overprescription and respond to individual needs.
Find out more👇
www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
Activists agree that be it singing, writing, moving, being in nature together, these things heal & sustain us 💙
Join our movement, and find out more about the #Give5 Framework 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
Read our latest newsletter 👉 mailchi.mp/pprproject/y...
Delighted that @allianceparty.bsky.social have endorsed the #Give5 Framework!
Great to have cross-party support for our rights based framework for well-being.
Thanks to @dannydonnelly1.bsky.social for meeting with us.
Find out more and endorse Give 5 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
We must look out for each-other as we work together for change.
The power of the group is holding spaces where people feel supported wherever they’re at 💙
#Community #Acceptance #CollectiveCare #Give5
Join the community 👉 nlb.ie/take-action/give-5
MLA Mark H Durkan and 6 New Script activists pose on the stairs in Stormont, 3 at the front holding ‘Give 5’ posters.
Delighted @sdlp.bsky.social have endorsed the Give 5 Framework.
Great to have cross-party support our rights based framework for well-being.
Many thanks to Mark H Durkan MLA for meeting with us.
Find out more & endorse #Give5 too 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
On Friday, some #NewScript activists brought the poetry apothecary to the Imbolc celebration at Gairdín an Phobail 💙
Healing through connection, community, and creativity.
Endorse the #Give5 Framework and help encourage wider options for healing 👇
www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
#NewScript activists busy making plans for the year ahead this week!
Connected and committed to changing the script on mental health 💙
Join us www.nlb.ie/campaigns/mental-health
#Give5
“Our belief in a holistic, recreational, creative, and community-based approach to mental health aligns really well with the 5 steps of the Give5 Framework.”
Many thanks to the NCPS for their endorsement of #Give5 💙
You can endorse it here! 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...
