The Violence Abuse & Mental Health Network Lived Experience Advisory Group brings together individuals with lived experience to explore the intersect between violence and abuse and mental health, and the impacts of this on individual experiences. Most recently LEAG conversations have explore the impact of a medicalised diagnosis, and the wider impacts this has on an individual’s life. In this session, members of the group will explore what this has meant to them. We will also be welcoming our keynote speaker from Surviving Economic Abuse. The full programme can be found below:

10:00 - 10:05 - Welcome

10:05 - 10:55 - Keynote speech from Georgie Getley (Surviving Economic Abuse) and Q+A

10:55 - 11:10 - Comfort break

11:10 - 11:40 - VAMHN: The impact of a mental health diagnosis on those who have experienced violence and abuse

11:40 - 12:00 - Questions and close

After you register we will send you the Zoom link two days before the event and then again one day before the event via Eventbrite email.

​The Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network aims to reduce the prevalence of mental health problems among children, adults, and the elderly, by bringing together experts with different ways of thinking about violence, abuse and mental health - some with personal experience of these issues, others with expertise from the work that they do, and survivor researchers with both. We hope to understand, prevent and reduce the impact of violence and abuse on mental health. 

To find out more about the network click here: https://www.vamhn.co.uk/

To join the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network, sign up here: https://www.vamhn.co.uk/join-the-network.html