In case you don't have the time to look at it, common themes that seemed to emerge were a focus on mental health education and resilience building in children, greater use of peer support and hopes that mental health can feature more widely in everyday discourse.
I particularly liked the piece from mental health tsar Louis Appleby, in which he sets out the following aspirations:
Insulting terms for mental illness will, like racial abuse, be socially unacceptable and banned in the media. Critics in the press and elsewhere will stop depicting mental health care as a bleak Gothic underworld and realise that this only adds to stigma. All of us in mental health will give up that cliché about the Cinderella service that is self-pitying and out-of-date.
Mind chief executive Paul Farmer also painted an attractive picture of how things should be by 2035 for average person concerned about their mental health:
If he's concerned about his mental health, he'll go online and review his wellbeing indicators. If he needs specific help, he'll use his personal health budget to access the therapist (and therapy) of choice, or to sign up to a brief course of green exercise. If he continues to become unwell, he will be able to check in to a crisis house (renamed asylum in a nostalgic recognition of the value of safe space), run by a voluntary organisation.
One hopes that that MH Services will indeed nolonger be Cinderella Services and that people who are acutely unwell will be able to access MH treatment in a timely manner in the same way they can access emergency treatment if they were suffering a heart attack.