Ashley Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 OCD-UK are delighted to announce that, in July 2008 we were awarded a grant from 'Awards for All', a lottery grants scheme funded by the National Lottery. The grant will allow OCD-UK to produce and print a series of OCD education and awareness information booklets for young people and parents of people affected by OCD. The first stage of that project is the completion of the awareness and educational booklet for young children. This was completed today and will be sent to print later this week, with over £2000 worth to be printed. Copies of the booklets can be sent out completely free of charge, although we do ask you to please send an A4 size SAE (large letter stamp). They should be available by the end of September. To compliment the booklet we have created a website with each page of the website, representing a page from the booklet. The website will be developed further over the coming year with more interactive content for young children. The website and booklet are designed so that parents can talk through the illness with their children. The website can be found here: www.ocdkids.org Stage 2 of our project will be the booklet for young adults which will we aim to send to print by February 2009. We truly hope that our booklet and website are helpful and allow you to help your children understand the illness better. The booklet is a compilation of work by over a dozen of our members, all of whom are sufferers themselves, our artist Leigh also suffers with OCD too and the booklet is another example of how together, we can help each other. A huge thank you to all the volunteers that helped from design, writing and proof reading, a special :clapping: to you all. We also want to acknowledge the support of Dr Victoria Bream Oldfield from the Institute of Psychiatry for supporting our work. Link to comment
whitebeam Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Brilliant news about the funding. I've just looked at the web-site - I think it's going to be really helpful. Well done for all your efforts to enhance people's awareness of OCD, whatever their age. Link to comment
Guest legend Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 just to say ashley, well done for all the hard work and effort you all put in to raise awareness of ocd, and hopefully the up and coming people who are unfortunate enough to have ocd, have a much better response from the medical world, than some of us older ones brilliant legend . :a1_cheesygrin: Link to comment
carolj Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 This is brilliant news Ashley and it must have been so rewarding getting the funding after all your hard work! :clapping: There are quite often questions from parents with young children and this will be so helpful for them. Link to comment
Guest PATIENCE Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Brilliant news, well done to Ashley and the team for all your hard work :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: Link to comment
Guest Deb Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Ash, what great news! The booklet looks great and will be so hugely helpful to children & families. Congratulations & well done to all :clapping: Best wishes, Deb Link to comment
Tez Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Yes, congratulations to you Ashley and all at the Administration side of OCD-UK. All my friends who have children I have already passed awareness of OCD-UK's youth work on to. If it can help children and young people from developing OCD - or allowing the symptoms to become ingrained, so to speak - then it is time enormously well spent. I believe - as I'm sure we all do - that children deserve a future free from fear. We have done so much as a society in the last 40 years to dismantle the stigma and fear surrounding emotional distress and mental illness: let's kick OCD in the teeth before it can sink its fangs into the generations to come!! Lots of love Tez :cool: Link to comment
Guest Olympia Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I just downloaded and printed the guide for young children. Reading it made me cry because it made me think of my struggles when I was younger. I wish there was such wonderful support and awareness when I was little, this truly is amazing. It breaks my heart to think of little ones out there with such big worries, feeling that they can't share their thoughts in case they come true. This makes it so clear that it's safe to ask for help and that there is help out there. Link to comment
Guest Bewildered Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 i have to say reading the booklet made me shed a few tear for the little me and the struggle i had growing up. it is brilliant well done to everyone involved Link to comment
Ashley Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 Thank you Olympia and Bee, I am sure all the team that worked on the Jolly and Grump project so far, Tangoblu, Deb, Northern Star, Kelly to name but a few will be so pleased to see their hard work getting the recognition it deserves (sorry if I have missed anyone off that list). The next part of the project is to ensure they reach the people that need them, the children! Link to comment
Guest Olympia Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I showed a print-out to my mum and she thinks it's wonderful. She runs a pre-school and it's in her duty of care to keep a look-out for early problems in the children. If there's a little one showing signs they pull in the specialists and she said this is perfect for helping the supervisors to understand the disorder and recognise any signs. I wrote some alternative fairytales while I was doing CBT, there's one where cinderella misses the ball because she's so anxious beforehand she picks her skin until she's so blothcy she can't go out. There's another one where eventually Roo takes the house keys off of Kanga, leads her outside and locks the door himself because if he left her to do it 20 times he knew he'd miss his friends party... I was just trying to think of something which could be read to children and help them understand in their own way. The one with Kanga and Roo was different because that one's aimed at the parent having ocd and the child having to take on adult responsibilities to help his mum from a young age. My therapist encouraged me to try and get them printed somewhere but time passed and they're just sat here. I had visions of them being in waiting rooms in GP surgeries. Link to comment
Northern Star Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I wrote some alternative fairytales while I was doing CBT, there's one where cinderella misses the ball because she's so anxious beforehand she picks her skin until she's so blothcy she can't go out. There's another one where eventually Roo takes the house keys off of Kanga, leads her outside and locks the door himself because if he left her to do it 20 times he knew he'd miss his friends party... I was just trying to think of something which could be read to children and help them understand in their own way. The one with Kanga and Roo was different because that one's aimed at the parent having ocd and the child having to take on adult responsibilities to help his mum from a young age. My therapist encouraged me to try and get them printed somewhere but time passed and they're just sat here. I had visions of them being in waiting rooms in GP surgeries. They're fantastic! :cool: Link to comment
Ashley Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 My therapist encouraged me to try and get them printed somewhere but time passed and they're just sat here. I had visions of them being in waiting rooms in GP surgeries. Hi Olympia, if you would still like to I am sure we can print them in one of our magazines and/or website, just shoot me a PM if you would like to discuss that. Link to comment
Ashley Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 I showed a print-out to my mum and she thinks it's wonderful. She runs a pre-school and it's in her duty of care to keep a look-out for early problems in the children. If there's a little one showing signs they pull in the specialists and she said this is perfect for helping the supervisors to understand the disorder and recognise any signs. Hi Olympia, I am happy to send you some copies out for your mum, in addition if anyone else attending our conference thinks they can distribute to schools, children's psychiatric units etc then please do let me know and I can ensure we have stock there. I collected them from the printers today and they really do look great, once again I want to thank all our volunteers who made the vision a reality. I just hope they will now do their job of helping to explain what OCD is to younger children. If anybody would like a copy we can send them out, but ideally could you please send an A4 sized SAE with a large letter stamp (52p first class, 42p second class). We will of course send them out to anybody who is unable to send a stamp to us. The entire project is an example of where our members membership fee's go, to help us prepare the work, write the grants for printing costs and to help us subsidise postage costs, thank you everybody. Link to comment
Guest Olympia Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 That would be great, thank you. Link to comment
Ashley Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 If we have any young people 14-19 that would like to contribute to our teen/young person's booklet please do get in touch with me. Also, if you would like to offer your services to work on the project (any age), writers, proof readers, designers. Thank you. Link to comment
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