About Us Company Ethos
Jellycat Media Limited acts to reduce the stigma of mental health problems and create the conditions that will allow young people with mental health problems to look to the future with optimism.
Our values and objectives are informed by the Early Psychosis Declaration (PDF, 200KB), which is an internationally agreed statement issued by the World Health Organisation in 2004. Everything which we do is geared to address the issues raised in this document.
Values
We value:
- the right to recovery and social inclusion, encouraging ordinary lives and expectations
- the importance of placing young people, their families and friends in partnership at the centre of care and service delivery
- the strengths and qualities of each individual, while being sensitive to age, phase of illness, gender, sexuality and cultural background.
Objectives
Our objectives are to:
1. challenge young people to achieve their full potential and help them to become optimistic about their future
2. provide local communities, families and friends with the information and tools they need to support young people with mental health problems
3. challenge wider societal prejudices.
1. Challenge young people to achieve their full potential
Our team works to challenge young people with mental health problems to achieve their full potential through creative workshops and apprenticeships.
We provide access to opportunities not routinely provided within the health setting or by other statutory services. Our creative workshops give young people access to a learning experience that is both creative and vocational thus encouraging independence and optimism with regard to social, personal, educational and employment outcomes.
2. Empowering communities, families and young people
Mental health problems are common. One person in four will experience some form of mental health problems in any year (Goldberg, 1991) and around 3 in every 100 young people will experience a 'psychotic episode' (more common than diabetes).
Most people will recover but recovery is much more likely if people have access to help and support from an early stage of their illness.
We work to educate and empower communities, families and young people to:
- understand the importance of mental health wellbeing
- identify early signs of possible mental health problems
- know how and where they can get help.
This means that young people with mental health problems have a community of support, know how to help themselves and know what help is available in the form of local mental health services.
3. Challenging stigma
Our team develops creative ways to reduce the stigma of mental health problems.
We work to challenge wider societal prejudices about mental health and to encourage practitioners from a wide range of health, governmental, non-governmental, education and third sector organisations to reflect on how they can better contribute to supporting young people with mental health problems, their families and their friends.
We provide a number of services to help individuals and organisations to better understand mental health issues, these include:
- consultancy in the field of mental health service provision
- training in mental health first aid and person-centred planning
- research and evaluation services
- events.