problems. It plays an important role in pioneering new approaches to prevention, treatment, and care. The Foundation's work includes: allocating grants for research and community projects, contributing to public debate, educating policy makers and healthcare professionals, and striving to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness and learning disabilities.³⁵

Recently, the Mental Health Foundation has published the booklet "Mental Health in the Workplace: Tackling the Effects of Stress", which addresses issues such as creating a healthy workplace, return to work after stress-related illness, and developing a workplace mental health policy. The booklet is on the Internet. ³⁶

MENTAL HEALTH MEDIA

Mental Health Media brings together the media and the fields of mental health and learning difficulties to challenge discrimination and prejudice and to print and broadcast the voices of people who have experienced mental health problems. Mental Health Media produces video, television, radio, audio, interactive programmes, CD ROMs, and websites about learning difficulties and mental distress and well-being. It offers training for mental health care workers on media issues, and provides users of mental health services, and survivors of mental illness who are thinking about media work with advice, information, support, and media skills training. Mental Health Media gives awards to programmes that challenge stereotypes, inform about mental distress, and give a voice to people with mental health problems.³⁷

Recently, Mental Health Media has produced a resource pack to help employers support people with mental health difficulties at work. The pack, "Working Partners", includes a video and a booklet which give practical information and guidance on best practices and the DDA in the area of mental health problems. Targeted specifically at employers, human resource staff, and recruitment agencies, the video answers the questions many people have about mental health and employees with mental health problems. Viewers hear from the employees themselves and from their employers about how they deal with mental health at work.

SANE

SANE, a mental health charity established in 1986, campaigns to change attitudes, combat prejudice and intolerance surrounding mental illness, improve attitudes and services for sufferers and their families, and provide care. SANELINE is the only national after-hours telephone helpline dealing with mental health and giving practical information and emotional support to people affected by mental illness. To initiate and fund research, SANE has established the SANE Research Centre in Oxford. Its aims is to provide a research centre of excellence which looks into the causes, treatments, and potential cures for schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS

Mental Health Matters is a nationally registered charity organisation which promotes the health and well being of people with mental health problems and their families and caregivers. It also provides services for people with mental illness. Mental Health Matters works to enhance public awareness of and attitudes towards mental health; to reduce the stigma of mental illness; provide appropriate information and educational resources for a range of groups, including people with mental illness, formal and informal caregivers, professionals, and the public and promote the development of effective support groups. Recently increased emphasis has been placed on com-