Advisory Group

Mental Health Promotion Initiative

The Most Reverend Pat Storey

Bishop of Meath and Kildare

Chair of Advisory Group

PROFESSOR JIM LUCEY

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin

Medical Director, St. Patrick’s University Hospital

PROFESSOR JIM CAMPBELL

Professor of Social Work, University College Dublin

PROFESSOR GERARD LEAVEY

Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Ulster

DR JILL HENDRON

Lecturer and Researcher in Counselling

“This is a very important area and no doubt would be of great benefit to those within the Church of Ireland and the wider community”

David Webb, CEO Protestant Aid

“Mental Health Ireland admire the in-depth and sustainable approach taken in this project as it aims to support and respond to the mental health needs of the community”

Martin Rogan, CEO Mental Health Ireland

“I am really encouraged by the understanding and recognition of the pivotal role the Church plays in mental health promotion…I am particularly heartened that the project team understand the importance of the project being needs led and I look forward to the results of the baseline assessment of the Church’s understanding of and ability to promote mental health”

James Lucey, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at Trinity College Dublin

“There could perhaps never have been a more appropriate time for a project such as MindMatters to emerge. As communities, families and individuals the Covid 19 pandemic has not only raised our awareness of the challenges around maintaining a healthy sense of wellbeing but it has also increased our appetite for robust, rigorous research to explore and understand these challenges”

Dr Jill Hendron, Lecturer and Researcher in Counselling