I set up a facebook event for the open call yesterday and when searching for it again later found a page for a film called Dwell Time. I watched the trailer and got in touch with the film director Anak Rabanal suggesting we have a film screening here in the UK. She seems keen! So that’s very exciting. We’re planning an event for World Mental Health Day on 10th October so could tie in a film screening and discussion with that event, or set up another special event. Here is Anak talking about her film for the indiegogo campaign previously run for the film. As shown in the film dwell time is also a military term: In the military, dwell time is the amount of time that service members spend in their home station between deployments to war zones. Dwell time is designed to allow service members a mental and physical break from combat and to give them time with their families. It is an important component of long term military readiness.
I also found that Time For Change has some handy guidelines for blogging about self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders which we will be good to follow as best practice to help safeguard anyone reading our blog and newspaper.
We have also just sent off our first funding application! Fingers crossed!! Our second application for match funding will be going in shortly too.
