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28 Aug 2024 06:54 AM
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📢 Upcoming changes to SANE Forums 📢 

Next week you’ll notice two important changes to SANE Forums. These changes were informed through our extensive community co-design process and will help create a more connected community as well as improve navigating the forum space.

Creating one SANE Community, under one SANE Forum. We’re merging our two Forums into one community. Our Friends, Families and Carers Forum and Lived Experience Forum will merge into one SANE Forum, creating a more connected community space for everyone. Friends, family and carers will still have a dedicated discussion space in the Forum and we'll be sharing the link to that new space with you soon.  

Updating the categories. In line with merging the two forums, we are renaming some of our categories and introducing some new ones too to better support a more connected community. 

  • Welcome and getting started (no change) 
  • Our Stories (no change)  
  • Events and updates (previously Forum news and updates and Special Events) 
  • Social space 
  • Recovery Club (previously called Looking After Ourselves) 
  • Something’s not right (no change) 
  • Friends, families and carers NEW 
  • Managing relationships NEW 
  • Advocating for change NEW 
  • Talking through trauma and PTSD NEW 
  • Managing thoughts of suicide & self-harm NEW 
  • Employment, education and training NEW

Specialised group hub spaces, like Yarning Space, will remain unchanged. 

We will update you on thread movements later in the week. These category changes are to help the community more easily navigate and find topics and conversations that reflect their needs and interests. 

To minimise disruption, these changes will happen gradually between Tuesday 3rd and Sunday 8th September:

  • First up will be the overall merge of the forums 
  • Following that will be the new and updated categories  
  • Last will be the threads moved and merged as mentioned above  

We appreciate change can be hard no matter how big or small. Please be kind to yourself and others, take the time to explore changes as they come and post any questions you may have. We are so grateful for your patience and understanding as we work to improve our community space with you. 

The SANE Forums Team 

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