This week, we will be observing Self-Harm Awareness Day on 1st March. It seemed fitting to reshare a podcast that we recorded last year - The F Files - Cutting Deep. 

The purpose of the day is to inform people about self-harm/self-injury to help break stigma and normalise people sharing their experience and seeking help. Self-harm is a topic that often isn’t approached due to a lack of knowledge and preconceptions. This month's podcast challenges the myths around self-harm and gets into those gritty issues no one talks about.

We discuss self-harm in custody, not only around how this can be managed, but separating out the opinions from fact and challenging those barriers to treatment and recovery and how we give support to drive an attitude of moving from harm to hope.

This episode of The F Files focuses on Autism.

We aim to raise awareness, look at what it means to be autistic, how we can support someone with autism and the difficulties and discrimination an autistic diagnosis brings.

In this episode, we hear from Michelle, one of our Contract Managers. She gives us an insight into her life with Autism and uncovers the myths around diagnosis and how everyone can help change the negative views associated with Autism.

In this episode, we hear from Jennie Smith, Clinical Lead in our Merseyside Integrated Healthcare contract.

She tells us about her journey through forensic science and how influential she has been in the development of national policies with forensic healthcare. 

This insightful interview is a view of her career and how this has progressed to the present day. She speaks passionately about her motivation and future aspirations.

In this hard-hitting episode, Rachel bravely shares her story of tackling alcohol addiction and how she uses her experience to support others. She speaks honestly about her childhood, the struggles she faced, and what she lost on the way.

Stacey Shelley, our Clinical Lead and Contract Manager in our Cleveland Forensic Healthcare contract brings us this first podcast. She explores the who, what, whys and wherefores of forensic healthcare and looks at what it's like to be a Healthcare Professional in a police custody environment.