{"id":93945,"date":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93945\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","slug":"campaign-to-improve-staffordshires-mental-health-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93945\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign to improve Staffordshire&#8217;s mental health launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A campaign to improve people&#8217;s wellbeing has been launched in Staffordshire following concerns about mental health in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Staffordshire County Council announced its Five Ways to Wellbeing campaign, aimed at helping residents to &#8220;improve their mental and emotional&#8221; health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The local authority said the first part of the initiative would encourage residents to sign up to weekly emails &#8220;packed with inspiration, practical challenges and motivational content&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It would begin with a self-assessment and end with a reflection on participants&#8217; progress, the council added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Councillor Martin Rogerson, cabinet member for health and care, said the county had seen a rise in emergency hospital admissions for self-harm as well as an above-average increase in new diagnoses of depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Having good mental health helps us manage stress, improve our physical health, relate better to others and make healthy choices,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A campaign to improve people&#8217;s wellbeing has been launched in Staffordshire following concerns about mental health in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-93945","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\/93945","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=93945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}