by Staff | Sep 26, 2020 | News & Events
This year’s World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, comes at a time when our daily lives have changed considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The past months have brought many challenges: for health-care workers, providing care in difficult circumstances,...
by Maan SMH | Nov 20, 2020 | News & Events
Greg Fell, Director of Public Health in Sheffield, looks at how the next few months may look for Sheffield and how restrictions would continue through the winter into spring. He goes through Sheffield’s continuing objectives and commitments and reinforces the...
by Staff | Nov 13, 2020 | News & Events
Maan working in collaboration with Burngreve/ Firvale and Darnall Covid confidence activist groups have launched a new digital pathway for Somali community members in Sheffield to engage in the development of up to date information around Covid-19, also ways to access...
by Staff | Oct 27, 2020 | News & Events
We need a robust national renewal mental health strategy, which deals with the underlying gaps, which have been harsher on BAME communities. Since the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the nation, Maan has seen unprecedented levels of the mental health crisis in Somali...
by Staff | Sep 27, 2020 | News & Events
In light of current developments and guidance around Covid-19, we are sadly cancelling all Maan Somali Mental Health Sheffield community engagement, health and social care providers’ events, meetings, in-reach to hospitals in-reach activities and home visits until...
by Staff | Sep 25, 2020 | News & Events
A support group is helping Sheffield’s Somali community better understand mental health and break the taboo that ‘illness is weakness’. Meaning ‘mind’ in Somali, Maan claims to be the only service in Sheffield whose sole focus is giving mental health support to...
by Staff | Sep 25, 2020 | News & Events
Maan Somali mental health organised a workshop which aimed to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing and at the same time promoting the importance of being active as part of Active Burngreave project. Many Somali of the Somali community both elderly and the...
by Staff | Sep 25, 2020 | News & Events
Maan Somali Mental Health Sheffield have received £18,596 funding from the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit. The funding is for the ‘Wada Hadal – Let’s Talk’ initiative that will use community development strategies to engage with people, across different...