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Personality Disorder North Essex Newsletters

April/May/June 2013 - Issue 69 (pdf 1.7Mb)
This issue focuses on Book Launch and Social Inclusion Fundraising.

January/February/March 2013 - Issue 68 (pdf 2.2Mb)
This issue focuses on BIGSPD (British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder), Social Inclusion Fundraising Update & HavenART, KUF goes to HMP Blundeston.

October/November/December 2012 - Issue 67 (pdf 1.1Mb)
This issue focuses on Responses to ‘The Sign Says Recovery', A Year At The Haven, and a Christmas Word Search.

July/August/September 2012 - Issue 66 (pdf 1.8Mb)
This issue focuses on Responses to ‘The Sign Says Recovery’, Social Inclusion Fundraising, Sponsored Head Shave, A Courageous Lady, Return of the Prodigal Cat.

April/May/June 2012 - Issue 65 (pdf 430Kb)
This issue focuses on Outdoor Wellbeing, The Sign Says Recoveryand the Haven Art Exhibition.

January/February/March 2012 - Issue 64 (pdf 1.7Mb)
This issue focuses on Beating the Winter Blues which introduces the Haven Inspiration Sheets, Outdoor Wellbeing, HavenART and Congratulations to Sue Clarke, winner of the Emergence National Postcard competition.

October/November/December 2011 - Issue 63 (pdf 1.8Mb)
This issue focuses on 'Achieved in 2011', Fundraising News, KUF Personality Disorder Awareness Training, HavenART and a Christmas Word Search.

July/August/September 2011 - Issue 62 (pdf 415Kb)
This issue focuses on Wounded Healers - Penny Parks & Marsha Linehan, website updates: new Training pages and a Social Inclusion Report For Our Funders containing stories of achievements, and a Thank You to our funders.

April/May/June 2011 - Issue 61 (pdf 423Kb)
This issue focuses on Haven Writers - Mindless Emotions, Fundraising Update, Good Luck Janet, , HavenART, For Denise - We Miss You.

January/February/March 2011 - Issue 60 (pdf 473Kb)
This issue focuses on Service Users Speak 'Alcoholism and Me', KUF News, HavenART, Haven Red Nose Day.

October/November/December 2010 - Issue 59 (pdf 472Kb)
This issue focuses on Service Users Speak 'Free At Last!', Fundraisning News for the year The Haven Social Inclusion Unit, and HavenART.

July/August/September 2010 - Issue 58 (pdf 328Kb)
This issue focuses on 'We're There' with fundraising for the current year, Haven Reseach © on The Journey of Recovery for Personality Disorder.

April/May/June 2010 - Issue 57 (pdf 304Kb)
This issue focuses on 'We're Almost There' with fundraising for the current year, and 'Between the Cracks', a play exploring the experiences of a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder.

January/February/March 2010 - Issue 56 (pdf 366Kb)
This issue focuses on 'Yes We Can', our Friends of The Haven fundraising campaign, The KUF (Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Training Framework).

October/November/December 2009 - Issue 55 (pdf 515Kb)
This issue focuses on Healthy Living, Christmas Tree Cookies, News and Events

July/August/September 2009 - Issue 54 (pdf 352Kb)
This issue focuses on self harm and features some thoughts about a recent BBC TV programme called ‘A World of Pain’.

April/May/June 2009 - Issue 53 (pdf 781Kb)
'Recovery', a talk by Ron Coleman, The KUF, New Haven Website Pages, Book Review

October/November/December 2008 - Issue 52 (pdf 447Kb)
Finding our Courage, Suffer the Little Children, In Memory, I am not visible

July/August/September 2008 - Issue 51 (pdf 189Kb)
Last gasp for psychiatric smokes, Anti-smoking smoke screen?, One of best things I ever quit, The Book of Idle Pleasures

April/May/June 2008 - Issue 50 (pdf 340Kb)
Redeployment, Recovery and Employment, The Learning Network

January/February/March 2008 - Issue 49 (pdf 298Kb)
Drug Entrapment, The Price of Alcohol, Haven Open Days

November/December 2007 - Issue 48 (pdf 318Kb)
Personality+ Event at the Tate Modern, National Personality Disorder Conference Roundup

September/October 2007 - Issue 47 (pdf 221Kb)
New Social Inclusion Unit Underway, Visit to Rampton Peaks Unit

May/June 2007 - Issue 46 (pdf 173Kb)
Social Inclusion and Education, Schema Focused Therapy, Haven Newsround

March/April 2007 - Issue 45 (pdf 250Kb)
Personality+, Taking a Snapshot on Suffers' Lives, Art puts Mental Health in the Frame

January/February 2007 - Issue 44 (pdf 239Kb)
This House The Haven, The Learning Network, Leeds Annual Personality Disorder Conference

Press Clippings

Colchester Gazette 6 June 2013 (pdf 262Kb)
Mayor and Mayoress at the Launch of Book on Mental Health
A new book on mental health has been launched at a Colchester treatmeent centre.
Ten authors contributed to Modern Mental Health - Critical Perspectives on Psychiatric Practice, looking at fresh way to provide mental healthcare. The book was launched at The Haven Project, in Lexden, with authors, service users and the Mayor of Colchester joining the celebrations.

Colchester Gazette 22 August 2012 (pdf 138Kb)
Head shave helps unit
Staff and clients at a project for north Essex residents with personality disorders raised funds with a fete. Alongside the usual stalls, cream teas, art work sale and raffle, staff and clients at the Haven Project took part in a sponsored head shave which raised more than £1,000.

Colchester Gazette 30 November 2010 (pdf 169Kb)
'Fundraising helps save Haven Project from axe
A project which helps north Essex residents with personality disorders to get qualifications and find work has been saved. At the project's annual general meeting, chief executive Heather Castillo announced nearly a year of fundraising has smashed the £60,000 target.

Colchester Gazette 18 May 2010 (pdf 400Kb)
'Haven closes in on its £60,000 target'
Hectic fundraising efforts by staff and clients mean a Colchester mental health project is close to raising the £60,000 it needs to retain one of its units.

East Anglian Daily Times 3 March 2010 (pdf 237Kb)
'Vital funding needed'
Support project is halfway to £60,000 target. A community project in Colchester supporting people with personality disorders needs to raise a further £30,000 to save an under-threat programme.

Colchester Gazette 26 January 2010 (pdf 506Kb)
'Vital Project's Funding Plea'
The Haven Project offers round-the-clock support and therapy to 140 adults with personality disorders in North Essex but the social inclusion unit is set to run out of funding within three months. In recent weeks, the Friends of The Haven have raised £10,000 towards its target. To make a donation, visit the donation page of this website or call 01206 287316.

East Anglian Daily Times 25 July 2009 (pdf 893Kb)
'Breaking the cycle of quiet desperation'
It is five years this summer since a project in Essex, one of 11 national pilot schemes, was set up to find a new way of helping people diagnosed with a personality disorder.

Colchester Weekly News 31 October 2007 (pdf 190Kb)
'Project is claiming success'
What was initially a two-year Government-funded scheme has turned into a major success story, helping scores of people on the road to a happier, more fulfilled life.

East Anglian Daily Times 15 March 2007 (pdf 181Kb)
'Art puts mental health in frame'
A centre in Colchester celebrated the creative work of people with mental health problems as part of a national arts project.

East Anglian Daily Times 13 March 2007 (pdf 407Kb)
'Using art in health care'
A workshop at The Haven, celebrating the creative achievements of people with mental health problems, is one of a series taking place across England as part of Personality Plus to raise awareness of personality disorder.

Colchester Evening Gazette 13 March 2007 (pdf 309Kb)
'Taking a snapshop on sufferers' lives'
A project which treats people with personality disorder has launched a major national arts project.

Colchester Evening Gazette 30 August 2005 (pdf 405Kb)
'A haven for those who are in desperate need'
One client's story of how the Haven Project "Saves lives - it's that simple".

The Guardian 15 December 2004 (pdf 401Kb)
'Twist of Trait'
Personality disorder, often seen as a 'dustbin diagnosis, is being treated by new, more effective methods. David Batty visits a project that tackles self-harm and substance abuse.

Colchester Evening Gazette 23 June 2004 (pdf 337Kb)
'A haven to help deal with personality disorders'
Government-funded project provides a lifeline to sufferers.