About this Event
✨ Somali Mental Health Network National Launch ✨
This is the beginning of a nationwide movement. Join Somali professionals, NHS allies, community activists, and change-makers as we launch a new chapter in mental health shaped by lived experience, clinical intelligence, cultural wisdom, and collective power.
🗓 What to expect:
🔑 A detailed overview on our projects, and year work to come
💬 Workshops led by NHS professionals and Community Leaders. Reflect, respond and influence what comes next.
💬 Key note speeches by the Lord Mayor, Grassroots Activists, lived experience voices from under-resourced communities ready to share their views on this movement.
🎭 Poetry, personal stories, and community reflection on healing and identity
🧠 A space for professionals who felt isolated in their work - youre not alone anymore!
🧵 Network with purpose - meet others with a shared mission
Refreshments, Lunch, connection spaces & powerful networking moments
This is a safe and uplifting space for professionals, parents, young people, students, elders, and allies. Together, we are building a home for Somali mental health rooted in dignity, leadership, and long-overdue representation.
Agenda
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Check in | Registeration
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Founder of SMHN: Vision, lived experience, and national ambition
Host: Salma Mohamed (CEO and Integrative Psychotherapist)
🕑: 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
The impact of trauma on the elder generation, silence and mental health
Host: Set us off with Inpiring talk by Community Leader
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Testimonies : Mental health needs, hopes for SMHN, and what young people want
Host: Mental Health Professionals
🕑: 12:50 PM - 01:40 PM
Introducting the workshops : (Indeti-Me + Break the Wall)
Info: Two interactive stations, running side-by-side in one room, invite attendees to pause, participate, and become part of something bigger. These creative workshops are grounded in evidence-based, trauma-informed practices, designed by Somali mental health professionals to support healing through identity, storytelling, and community reflection.
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Workshop Facilitators Feedback
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Powerful Poetry
Host: Poetry by our inspirational team member
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Lunch (Buffet) + Networking
Host: Delicious buffet
🕑: 02:50 PM - 03:15 PM
Salma : What's next? Our next steps for the movement.....
Host: A Walk through on our goals for the year
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:40 PM
Lord Mayor Speech : Resilience, Leadership & Breaking the Cycle
Info: A powerful reflection on leading as a Somali Muslim Woman, staying open-minded as a parent, and navigating community complexity. She speaks on the silent wounds many carry, the need for youth to step up with compassion, and her hopes for a new kind of leadership... one rooted in healing, courage, and vision.
🕑: 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM
Interactive Feedback Session
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Closing Statement : Special Guest
Host: Closing Statement
Network and ending (16.30)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wicker, Wicker, Sheffield, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
