Some new services are being provided on the ground through the charity Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH), which has opened a drop-in centre in Glasgow called the Nook.<\/p>\n
“This is our solution to the current mental health crisis that Scotland faces,” said SAMH executive director Alex Cumming.<\/p>\n
“Anybody aged 10 plus, young people, adults, families can come and start their mental health journey.”<\/p>\n
Mr Cumming said over 900 people have been through its doors since it opened in October – including people referred there by the police.<\/p>\n
“The police do a fantastic job, they’re really supportive and focus on people’s well-being,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But they would say themselves that sometimes they’re not the best people to have those conversations.<\/p>\n
“This is providing an opportunity for them to bring people here quicker, when they identify that other services are not required or relevant for them.”<\/p>\n
Justice Secretary Angela Constance highlighted the reduction in mental health incidents recorded by the police and the results of the mental health pathway.<\/p>\n
She said: “I recognise the impact of mental health-related incidents on policing, and I am grateful to officers for all they do to help those in distress.<\/p>\n
“However, we know we must do more and we are working in partnership with Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority, health boards and local authorities to drive forward more improvements.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some new services are being provided on the ground through the charity Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-356192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}