Movember Foundation call for projects

22/07/14 . Partners

The Men's Health Forum is working with our partners at Leeds Metropolitan University on men's mental health and wellbeing.

The Movember Foundation has commissioned the Centre for Men’s Health at Leeds Metropolitan University to conduct a literature review and environmental scan to identify the:

research/knowledge that already exists in relation to effective approaches that engage men and boys about their mental health and wellbeing
the knowledge and practice gaps
the existing programmes and initiatives that show promise in terms of engaging men, nationally and internationally

Under all three of these headings, the focus of the work is on mental health promotion – understood in this work as prevention, early intervention when problems arise and stigma reduction. The Movember Foundation will use the results from this work to inform the development of a new programme of work in the UK.

As part of this process we are looking to hear about successful, innovative or promising projects/programmes that attend to these issues. If you are working in such a project, or are aware of one, then please email the details to Professor Steve Robertson.

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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