Joe Kelly is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

Joe Kelly visits Birmingham to attend an important seminar

26 July 2010

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Recently I travelled from my home in Greenford to Whitechapel and was picked up at the Brady Centre by a minibus that took a group of us to Birmingham. The group was a keen bunch of user survivors from three main groups. These were the Survivor History Group, THACMHO [Tower Hamlet Afro Caribbean mental health organisation] and lastly f.e.e.l. Friends of East End Loonies. We travelled to the University of Birmingham, Centre for Excellence In Interdisciplinary Mental Health, Edgbaston -...

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Joe Kelly is keen to connect. He blogs some favourite online places for mental health issues

10 July 2010

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When I stood down as Director of Footsteps Arts I made a particular point of getting broadband at home. I realised the power of the internet and it's many advantages. I wanted to develop my research and development capacity and search for new and innovative ideas in the mental health sector. I realised that communication and isolation was an important issue for service user/ survivors, both individually and collectively. The internet continues to offers new opportunities and new links between...

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