SMI - Innovation Bids
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SMILE: Severe Mental Illness Learning & Evaluation
"Improving the physical health and wellbeing of people with severe mental illness."
SMILE is a new programme being run by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and the Centre for Public Innovation (CPI). The programme aims to stimulate new ideas and encourage new ways of working with clients with severe mental illness.
There are three issues we want to tackle through this programme:
- Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness;
- Improving the general wellbeing of people with severe mental illness;
- Helping people with severe mental illness to stop smoking.
All of the projects listed below were successful innovation bid applicants and have identified an opportunity to tackle at least one of the three issues listed above. For more information about a project click on their specific link.
- Allot-Better-Group - Aims are for the client to be both physically and psychologically healthier and have a greater awareness of healthy lifestyles, experience great self esteem and achieve an enriching experience.
- A sporting recovery (back on track) - Aims to use exercise for the client to gains a sense of achievement and motivation to want to change and actively engage in their recovery.
- Breaking down barriers - Aims are for the clients to choose alternatives to smoking and improve their physical and mental health using engagement, exercise and/or healthy eating and these opportunities will be transferable to life within the wider community.
- Breaking out - Aims for six Headspace clients to develop positive and supportive relationships, gain new skills, increase confidence, self esteem and social interaction.
- Clycleology - Aims for clients to have reached a basic level of proficiency in bike maintenance and road riding, and to be able to pass these skills on to others, for clients to be more communicative and confident, for them to be exercising regularly as part of a social group, and to be smoking less. It is hoped that they will have made sustainable, lasting relationships, and gained lasting soft skills. They will report better general wellbeing. All clients will have a bike.
- Dig for dinner - Aims to broaden client's social network in order to improve self reliance, physical wellbeing, and contribute positively to the local community.
- Futuresteps - Aims to increase knowledge of the benefits of physical activity among twenty clients and staff of two forensic inpatient units and to increase their participation in physical activity on a weekly basis. As a result of increased activity, they aim achieve improvements in peak flow and resting pulse, achieve weight maintenance and reduced smoking habit.
- Get active - Aims for clients to be enabled to make healthier lifestyle choices and access community activities.
- Get fit, keep fit - Aims for patients to develop a range of skills and knowledge in healthy eating, to exercise and reduce smoking which will become a part of there daily lifestyle and to raise self esteem and self confidence.
- Keeping safe keeping well - Aims for service users to achieve better wellbeing through maintaining and riding bikes.
- Lapwing Inpatient Mental Health Unit Garden Activity Project - Aims to provide an area in a custodial environment where young people with mental health problems can undertake physical, social and recreational activities and increase their skills to deal with the effects of mental illness and behavioural problems.
- Lets get physical - Aims for clients to have an improvement in their physical health and well being, by increasing their confidence and interests in physical activities. Through attending weekend and evening aerobics/boxercise sessions; enabling them to continue to engage in these activities in the community.
- Living well group - Aims to promote healthier lifestyles through information and education, to reduce the incidence of obesity, hypertension and diabetes by regular monitoring, to provide information on how to stop or reduce smoking and increase self esteem and social inclusion.
- Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor - Aims for patients to become empowered and motivated to take responsibility over their lifestyle by engaging in an activity, giving them an effective coping strategy for the future.
- Rediscovering calm - Aims for Service users to experience improved mental health, by learning coping strategies to help them establish a greater sense of well-being, with the use of solutions focused therapy. Through the use of Qi based exercises (qi gong and meditation) people will experience a greater level of mindfulness and positive physical health.
- Ride to the wellbeing path - Aims for patients to remain motivated and interested in utilising the developed skills from this group for their future community setting environment.
- Say no to type 2 - Aims to help clients eat more healthily making use of a complex carbohydrate diet and engage in more exercise which will lead to a reduction in weight and an increase in self esteem.
- SHARP soccer project - aims to improve physical wellbeing, to provide regular football sessions, to increase social contact, to improve fitness levels and to increase happiness levels.
- Smiling in prison - Aims for patients to understand the relationship between their physical and mental health and will recognise the importance of looking after their own physical health.
- Stub it out now - Aims to raise the clients' awareness of the benefits to the health as a result of not smoking and to provide them with the necessary skills to reduce their smoking or to abstain.
- Surviving mental illness through learning in the environment - Aims for clients to feel motivated and confident to independently engage in activities of their choosing, and harness control of their personal well-being.
- Trash the ash - Aims to increase the proportion of the client group who would consider giving up smoking. For them to be able to say: "I would consider giving up smoking and I know I would get help to do so".
- Weightbusters - Aims for clients to gain no further weight and ideally lose weight over a period of time and have the knowledge, skills and motivation to continue with a healthy eating regime.
- Yoga for Wellbeing - Aims for clients to learn to manage distressing physical and psychological symptoms which will lead to increased wellbeing and improved occupational and social functioning and work towards a valued life worth living.