Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation, run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. Happening every year, it’s a day for communities to come together to talk, listen and change lives. On Time to Talk day 2022, we launched the Muslim Mind...
Where traditionally research has been conducted about Muslim communities, the Centre for the Study of Wellbeing´s vision is to create spaces within which Muslims can lead on their own narrative and set the agenda in terms of how wellbeing is defined and measured for...
My Family Group’s Annual Roundtable Event on Muslim Heritage Children in Care took place on the 27th April this year, with the theme of Supporting Identity and Wellbeing. It brought together stakeholders and experts from a range of sectors. We convened in the interest...
The NHS Muslim Network’s Mental Health & Islamophobia webinar highlighted that mental health is very misunderstood in the Muslim community and the cause for this is believed to be due to several reasons ranging from lack of knowledge and understanding to stigma...
MMC response to the government’s discussion paper on the 10-year mental health and wellbeing plan In April 2022, the UK government published a discussion paper on a proposed 10 year plan for mental health, alongside a call for evidence with specific questions on the...
In June 2021, The Lantern Initiative collaborated alongside Muslim academics to launch a national survey to understand the experiences and attitudes of Muslim communities toward mental health support. The report summarising the survey findings of 926 respondents is...
A recent report into the mental health struggles of young British Muslims undertaken by Better Communities Better Network (BCBN) revealed that four in five young Muslim people said they had suffered mental health struggles, with 64% of survey participants in the study...
