Humansolutions Bulletin - September 23rd 2015

Neil’s Effective Writing e-book is now on Kindle (and other e-book platforms) as are his two brand new e-books, A Career in Social Work and How to Do Social Work. For a limited period they are available for only 99p each. We hope you will like them and feel able to give them a positive review. https://astore.amazon.co.uk/neilthomp-21?_encoding=UTF8&node=14

To be described as a ‘narcissist’ is generally to be insulted. Narcissus was someone who was in love with himself. But being ‘in love with’ yourself and loving yourself are two different things! In my career I have been called upon to help and support a number of people who are struggling with depression. From that experience I noticed certain recurring themes or characteristics. One of them was the tendency for people who are depressed to be harsh on themselves – for example, to be very critical of something they have done when they would not have been anywhere near so critical if it were someone else who had done it ... https://neilthompson.info/index.php/love-and-respect-yourself/  

YoungMinds are really excited to share our first ever activist showcase, celebrating  some of the young activists that have been campaigning with us over the last year. Everybody working on the campaign agreed we had to create something to give a platform to the young campaigners who’ve been leading the YoungMinds Vs campaign. We wanted everybody to hear them talk about why they are driven to campaign about mental health and how they have been leading change. https://www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/2977_youngminds_launches_activist_showcase

From tiny community gardens to sprawling city farms, FCFCG helps grass roots groups create genuine benefits for their community. And in turn, we are constantly inspired and amazed by the people and the places that we support. Since FCFCG was born, back in 1980, we have worked with community farms and gardens, school farms, care farms, wildlife and roof gardens, community orchards, community-run allotments and community supported agriculture schemes. We have helped bring community growing into the mainstream, been at the centre of the rise in local food growing and picked up many supporters along the way, including our Patron HRH The Prince of Wales. https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/about-us

In 2010 we know that the leaders’ wives got more attention than female politicians, so over the 2015 election Fawcett kept an eye on the media to see if things have improved. Fawcett is investigating if reporting about the economy in the media, central to the lives of women and a key election issue, is the preserve of men. Read the initial summary of how the media fared in this blog ... https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/election-2015-views-not-shoes/  

Racial inequality in the workplace has worsened over the last decade, despite the fact that ethnic minorities now outperform white British students in education, research shows. The Runnymede Trust, the charity behind the study, believes the findings point to institutional racism in the workplace. Ethnic minorities are also more likely to live in poor housing conditions, a comparison of census data from 2001 and 2011 in England and Wales has found. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-hidden-racism-workplace-inequality-has-grown-in-the-last-decade-9898930.html