Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive

10:00 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

We have a social media campaign, Little Things, which is broad mental health messaging that we are now adapting specifically for CAMHS and other groups. The HSE has quite a good digital media department and we are doing a lot of work with it in looking at how we can develop a better presence in terms of mental health supports and access. At the moment, at the request of the Minister, we are looking at having a single type of portal and IT access on mental health. The work that goes on in respect of promotion and prevention really sits within the health and well-being division. Just today, the HSE has launched a new Twitter tag in the context of health and well-being for schools, so there is a whole Twitter feed that is going to push out health promotion and health and well-being messaging to all the schools in the country. That has been a very significant initiative. From a mental health promotion perspective, we are part of that and there is a mental health promotion officer working with the health and well-being division.

With regard to the section 38 and section 39 agencies, we will send the Deputy a list. We covered that at the last meeting so we have that information available.

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