Mind (mental health charity)

Mind is a UK mental health charity that provides information and support, campaigns for better services, and works to improve public understanding of mental health.

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Mind Infoline: Mind’s information service offers callers information and signposting about mental health problems, treatment, and support. It provides direct access to guidance for people seeking help or information.
Mind website: Mind’s online resource providing information about mental health, treatments, rights, and support options. It makes the charity’s guidance available nationally and continuously.
National Association for Mental Health: The organization founded in 1946 that later became the mental health charity Mind. It is Mind’s original national organization and institutional predecessor.
Rethink Mental Illness: An English charity providing services and advocacy for people severely affected by mental illness. It shares Mind’s advocacy role while focusing more specifically on severe mental illness.
Mind Legal Line: Mind’s legal information service provides guidance on mental health-related law in England and Wales. It addresses legal questions that can arise alongside mental health needs.
Mind campaigns: Public advocacy initiatives seeking changes in policy, services, or attitudes toward mental health. Campaigning is one route through which Mind presses for better mental health provision.
National Association for Mental Health (MIND): The name adopted by the National Association for Mental Health in 1972, later shortened to Mind. The name change established the identity from which the charity’s current name developed.
Samaritans: A UK and Ireland charity providing confidential emotional support to people in distress or despair. It offers a distinct, crisis-oriented form of support beside Mind’s broader remit.
Local Mind: An independent local charity in the Mind network that provides mental health services and community support. Local Minds deliver support in communities across England and Wales.
Mind network: The national charity and affiliated local Minds working across England and Wales. The network links national advocacy with locally delivered support.