CHARM and Social Justice

Focusing on human rights and the social determinants which contribute to poor mental health, in order to better enable success for crisis services.

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Support our work - calling for radical changes in the way mental health support is provided in Manchester.

CHARM’s actions follow our strong value base that holds compassion, human rights and justice as the essential components of any health care system.

We meet every month to share information and to plan our campaigns and community building.

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Campaigning

CHARM campaigns for radical changes in the way psychiatric services are provided in Manchester.

We’ve teamed up with people with lived experience, trade unions, family groups and citizens 

Our mission is rooted in human rights and the empowerment of community.

 

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Innovating

We support projects and research to further our central values of compassion, community, human rights and holistic approaches to mental health.

We are asking these questions

“How can mental health practitioners and services switch to social and relationship-based support (away from biomedical approaches)?”

“How we can recognise the importance of and act on the social determinants of mental ill health? How we can address social justice and human rights within society?”

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News and Views

Keep up to date with all our latest news and events

SHARE POWER: to prevent the abuse of power

CHARM and GMCDP’s Response to the Oliver Shanley Independent Report into GMMH

In January 2024 NHS England published their independent report into the abuses uncovered by the BBC Panorama programme at the Edenfield Secure Unit. Communities for Holistic Accessible Rights-based Mental Health (CHARM) and Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) find that there are serious omissions in both the findings and recommendations in the report: “Independent Review into the care and treatment provided by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust” (January, 2024).

This Report Summarises our concerns.

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Mental Health Trust Watch

Monitoring media coverage of mental health.

There is growing evidence of systemic problems that have led to tragic outcomes. 

Our intention is to be able to identify issues and concerns across the services and we do this through monitoring media coverage of mental health services in our City Region.

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41 Old Birley Street
Hulme
Manchester, M15 5RF
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