The president of the Antigua and Barbuda Mental Health Association, Mrs Joan Fung, will be visiting mental health facilities in North East Lincolnshire on Tuesday, June 29. 

Mrs Fung along with other members of the Antigua and Barbuda Mental Health Association are visiting North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus mental health services as the CTP has provided support and training to Antigua to help develop their mental health provision. This was at the invitation of both the Antigua and Barbuda Association of Mental Health and the Antiguan health minister. 

The delegates from Antigua and Barbuda are visiting to see first hand how mental health services are run in North East Lincolnshire.  

They will first visit Tukes, Brighowgate, which offers people with mental health problems the opportunity to get back in to work and learn new skills by providing training and work placements.  The delegates will then visit Harrison House, the state of the art adult mental health treatment and support facility in Grimsby that was recently awarded the ‘best community development’ honour at the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards. Finally the party will tour older people’s mental health services, based at The Gardens, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital. 

Kevin Bond, director of mental health, said: “We are pleased that Mrs Fung and her associates are to visit us here in North East Lincolnshire to see how mental health services are provided. 

“This visit helps to strengthen the link between our two organisations and maintain the relationship we have developed with the Antigua and Barbuda Mental Health Association.”