What we do

 As the UK's ONLY charity focused on mental health support and awareness for our emergency services, we know this brings great responsibility to drive through meaningful change. 

This sector delivers unique challenges,which is why bespoke change is required. 

This change could come in many forms such as facilitating events with the intention of breaking through the stigmas associated with mental health, providing much needed funds direct to groups and individuals to offer immediate benefit or protecting the future of our emergency services workers before issues occur with appropriate documentation and support structures.

Using the generous donations (both time and money) from our amazing supporters we are able to make a difference right now. We can and will provide focused and relevant mental health support, documentation and events for the emergency services.

Specific examples of this include:

• Funding and oversight of a wellbeing programme for all medical students within 14 separate universities based in the South-West and Midlands. 
  • This will focus on providing our future doctors and nurses with access and understanding of self-help techniques for trauma exposure. This will made available through documentation, white papers and charity funded staff who will offer module teachings. In addition, we will provide resilience technique training to help ready them for the conflict they will be exposed to once they graduate

• Funding of well-being initiatives alongside established NHS well-being practitioners across the South-West hospital trusts.

• Examples of this include art therapy and pet therapy sessions that have allowed both staff and patients to come together and focus on stress relief, preventative methods and an opportunity to discuss mental health issues with suitable personnel

• Developing clinical whitepapers and self-help material from our charity funded clinical leads covering self-help techniques which will be linked in to established employee handbooks

• Hosting events with qualified and relevant key note speakers as part of the NHS trust conferences that focus on the topic of mental health

• Working with local NHS trusts to develop and manage a free to use online forum for NHS staff to work with others and share experiences to build up a mental health community where individuals can seek support from others with experience in similar situations. 

The challenge is a big one but the Laura Hyde Foundation are determined to succeed and prevent further impact to our miracle workers and families.