NHS Forth Valley Online Mental Health and Wellbeing Guides

Posted on February 14, 2019

NHS Forth Valley provides a range of free mental health and wellbeing self-help guides online.

The guides can be downloaded as a leaflet for reading or audio file for listening, and cover a range of topics, including: abuse, alcohol, anxiety, bereavement, depression and low mood, domestic violence, eating disorders, hearing voices, obsessions and compulsions, panic, post-traumatic stress, postnatal depression, self-harm, sleeping problems and stress.

For further information, please visit the NHS Forth Valley website.

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Volunteering Matters Action Earth 2020 Funding

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Free CVS Falkirk Funding Portal

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Scottish Government has announced that there will be additional assistance to move into work, or retrain, for people looking for work or those at risk of redundancy. Measures include a job guarantee for young people, a new national retraining scheme, and more funding to provide immediate assistance and advice if people are made redundant. In addition, Fair Start Scotland (FSS), Scottish Government’s employment support service, has been extended by a further two years to March 2023.

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