@doritbraun
Artist, dog borrower, dolls house creator and follower of politics. Trying to improve mental health care for people experiencing a crisis and to make sure families are involved in care. Chief Executive of Making Families Count.
We're recruiting a freelance, part time Family Engagement Consultant with funding from Awards for All. This new role has been created to help families feel comfortable and confident to contribute to our work. Please re-post. Thank you.
www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/get-involved...
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Please help to disseminate information about our new free resources for people bereaved by suicide. Here's a free poster you could use. Thank you.
We have published very moving poem written by Shelagh Sheldrick, who is on our Families Panel. It describes the feelings of so many traumatically bereaved families who try to get services to learn and improve. Take a look www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/2026/01/22/w...
Making Sense after Suicide:living with blame, uncertainty, and the need for answers. You are not alone
Suicide bereavement is often accompanied by profound uncertainty, self-blame, and silence — yet these experiences are rarely spoken about openly.
Making Sense After a Suicide is a new resource developed to support people bereaved by suicide.
🔗 www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/2026/01/12/n...
Listened to more harrowing stories from traumatically bereaved families last night. The endurance required to persevere to get organisations to learn and improve is awe inspiring. We offer training in working with families as partners in care:
www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-...
Incredibly powerful and moving event for families last night. Desperate that families are re-traumatised by the processes of trying to find out what happened to their loved one following a traumatic bereavement. The courage, determination and resilience people demonstrate is extraordinary.
Moved by this evening's event for families. Thanks to those who attended, shared our trauma and pain and reflected together on the changes Making Families Count should champion. Families know our loved ones best of all. We must be partners in their care, and in the learning if things go wrong.
Can you help? We urgently need funds to provide peer support to families who have been traumatically bereaved and to enable those families to work with the NHS to learn from tragedies to provide more compassionate and safer care. Thank you.
www.goodhub.com/go/making-fa...
Thank you. My grandparents could not get visas to the UK when they had to flee Czechoslovakia. They paid £1000 per person in 1939 to the British in order to flee to Palestine. My aunt, was, at 17, too old to be on the family visa and came here to train as a nurse. Where should we be deported?
Funding Appeal for Making Families Count
We've lost significant income when a contractor closed! We're a not for profit working with traumatically bereaved families to influence learning and change in health and care. Please consider making a donation www.goodhub.com/go/making-fa...
Events for seriously harmed or traumatically bereaved families.
Making Families Count is running online evening events for families on 18 or 27 November. Help set the agenda to improve patient care and safety.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-fam...
Works just as well if you set aside a day to paint!
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Use another language! That worked with our dog where we could not say WALK but could say caminar, and we could not say chicken but Pollo was fine.
Fair enough but tbh this has been going on for well over 2 years so I'm not persuaded that is the issue for all the women who do it!
In my pool we have women who WALK halfway up the slow lane. Imo they should be banned. We also have MEN WHO MAY NOT BE OVERTAKEN. FFS!!!
You can also use Tiptapp to offer it free for someone to collect
![Piero - Los Americanos [Canción Oficial] ®](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zaaa2wn2bvjwlsqycdwrlx2/bafkreicple5hsj7cmohsrumuy53ct4s4nomzs2vjqtsyttymhavfjv4czm)
Loved this. And given that you speak some Spanish, you might enjoy this song by an Argentinian about Los Americanos
youtu.be/LVXzmG0XT6s?...
Brilliant! And thank you for featuring Life Beyond the Cubicle
www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/life-beyond-...
Today is World Mental Health Day.
On the hub we have pulled together a set of resources, blogs and reports focused on improving #patientsafety across different aspects of mental health services and also supporting staff with their own mental health and wellbeing www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
I’m proud to announce new, free eLearning resources to enable health and social care professionals to work well with families and friends of someone in mental health crises. via the NHS Learning Hub. Search for Life Beyond the Cubicle once you have logged in.