• Criminalising Distress

    Criminalising Distress

    This report examines the harms of Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), and outlines ongoing police and NHS schemes which continue to criminalise distress today.


  • Criminalising Distress report launch

    Criminalising Distress report launch

    Join Medact for the launch of our latest report, Criminalising Distress. The report is the result of our independent national study exploring SIM (Serenity Integrated Mentoring) and exposing ongoing SIM-like practices which involve the police in securitising and punishing mental distress.


  • Medact New Joiners Meeting

    Medact New Joiners Meeting

    New to Medact? We’d love to meet you at our next New Joiners meeting—a friendly, informal and interactive session and an opportunity to get to know us and let us get to know you. 


  • Medact Groups check-in: February 2024

    This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward.


  • Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Bi-monthly meeting for ‘Criminalising Distress’. This project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police […]


  • Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Bi-monthly meeting for ‘Criminalising Distress’. This project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police […]


  • Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Bi-monthly meeting for ‘Criminalising Distress’. This project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police […]


  • Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Bi-monthly meeting for ‘Criminalising Distress’. This project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police […]


  • Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Criminalising Distress final stages meeting

    Bi-monthly meeting for ‘Criminalising Distress’. This project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police […]


  • The 2024 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    The 2024 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    Submissions for the 2024 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize are open until 28th February, 2024.