The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Our work is united by a common concern about the quality of life of people with mental health problems.

We work primarily with mental health and social care practitioners, policymakers and employers. We carry out research into mental health services. We do not provide services directly to people with mental health problems.

Our priority areas are:

• Employment: developing and promoting new ways of helping people with mental health problems get and keep work.
• Criminal justice: identifying effective methods of supporting and diverting people with mental health problems in the criminal justice system.
• Mental health at work: training managers and staff to understand, identify and support people with depression and anxiety at work.
• Recovery: helping mental health services across the UK to support people more effectively to make their own lives better on their own terms.
• Children: helping services to divert young people from custody and get the support that they need early in life.