Overcoming Challenges in County Durham Section Title Overcoming Challenges in County Durham By Chris Affleck, Karen Ray and Thomas Raine North Time To Change Hub’s Network Event Leeds – 10th June

1) Reproducing Social Contact Section Title 1) Reproducing Social Contact on a large scale & closing the knowledge gap

Partners involved in Time To Talk Day 2019

Reproducing Social Contact on a large scale & closing the knowledge gap Working in Partnership to target specific communities Activities included: Coffee mornings Physical Activities/ Run’s Workshops in Schools Games/ Art/ Quizzes Elephants On the street engagement Taking into account for all of the engagement facilitated across the County there were around 25 Events involving 40 Champions and approximately 400 examples of social contact (that we know of).

Time To Talk Day Discussions Young people and adults spoke openly about their experience of poor mental health and talked about times where they have challenged stigma and discrimination on behalf of themselves or others including friends and family. During the public engagement activities there were some examples of stigma during conversations including: “It’s all in the mind, it’s what you make of it, if you think negatively you will be negative.”

Time To Talk Day Discussions Addressing the Elephant in the Room In Barnard Castle many people avoided the ‘Elephant in the room’ showing that people are uncomfortable initiating a conversation about something outside of their comfort zone. The Elephant did have a positive impact with businesses asking for the Elephant to visit their stores and Hay’s Travel put photos and messages supporting the Time To Talk campaign on their Social Media Sites.

Time To Talk Day Discussions Durham County Carers had new Carers attend their event and sign up for their service. Stamp It Out have since been approached asking for anti-stigma parcels to play pass the parcel with. “It’s all in the mind, it’s what you make of it, if you think negatively you will be negative.”

Social Contact The key to developing our tool kit of resources is finding the right hook for the right audience/ individual to initiate social contact.

2) Supporting Champions to access a range of opportunities Section Title 2) Supporting Champions to access a range of opportunities

Champion Lead - Sustainability Stamp It Out - Charity December 2018 Stamp It Out became a Charity All Trustees are Time To Change Champions with lived experience Sourced training through the VCS to support in their role e.g. Treasurer, Secretary Identified Training to upskill Champions – Social Media training

Stamp It Out Campaigners

Champion Lead Stamp It Out Campaigners Meet informally every 2 weeks. Champions with lived experience Develop a toolkit of resources Plan and support events where there are opportunities for social contact Offer peer support to other Champions Involved in the Time To Change Hub Workshops

3) We want to learn from other Hubs to answer the question - So what? Section Title 3) We want to learn from other Hubs to answer the question - So what? How we can evaluate and evidence/ measure the impact?

Section Title Thank You For more information on the County Durham Hub contact Hub Coordinator Chris Affleck chris.affleck@investinginchildren.net 0191 3077030