Suffolk User Forum

General information

We aim to make this Facebook page a safe place for debate and conversation about mental health, by talking and sharing information and news about local mental mental health services and support for emotional well-being.

This page is set up and monitored by Suffolk User Forum, we understand that sometimes we may post or share items and discussions that may be of a sensitive nature. If we do, we are sharing to support greater understanding of emotional distress and we try to be mindful to alert you to any posts that may contain possible triggers.

SUF has a wide membership of people who are interested in mental health in Suffolk and who have used a range of different mental health and emotional well-being services.

We are supporting the growth of a wide network of people across the county of Suffolk who wish to support a changing culture around mental health, a more open and inclusive understanding that the experience of emotional and mental distress is a human response that can be experienced by any one of us.

We work to promote and strengthen the peoples voice for positive change, independence, human rights, choice and control.

We value peoples support and welcome those who wish to support our work to become partners with us by becoming a member.

We work to promoting peoples rights, choices & voices through all of our work and through our new Advocacy Service.

We value our members and supporters, as experts in an equal partnership.

We support expanding well-being networks & work to provide people with reliable information.

To deliver on these commitments we work together with you as partners to gather, record and collate your experiences of mental health service provision in Suffolk and present the results with recommendations or commendations to service providers and commissioners.

We work with you and take your ideas for developments in local mental health care, promoting a better better understanding of how services can meet your needs more effectively.

We are currently working to ensure that Suffolk has an effective County wide suicide prevention strategy that supports all partners in Suffolk to have an improved understanding of the issues around suicide and a shared vision to deliver zero suicide in Suffolk.