Mentally ill people to get 'job coach' visits...

[InArduisFouette]

Sorry, but .

indeed

i'm a Calibri girl for my CV , having flirted with Gill sans in the past ( but not wanting to look too much like Nigel Gresley ... ) serif fonts are apparently harder to read than Sans serif

 

[InArduisFouette]

Speaking as a dyslexic, I find OpenDyslexic harder to read than most normal fonts. Comic sans is no easier or harder, but well, it's Comic fucking sans.

The most important thing for me is white space, large blocks of text are just unreadable. Background colour can help as well, things with less glare are easier to read.

how do you find Calibi / Gill sans ( as used by the pre WW2 LNER) / Johnston ( the London Undergrounf font ) ?

 

[emanymton]

how do you find Calibi / Gill sans ( as used by the pre WW2 LNER) / Johnston ( the London Undergrounf font ) ?

Calibi is fine, Gills sans looks like it would be fine, but to my knowledge never read much using it.

 

[Lotte]

<sigh> Having had a lot of experience around mentally ill people being in hospital, from a personal and (to a lesser extent) professional perspective, I cannot think of anything more obviously abusive and counterproductive than this idea.

Quite apart from the inappropriateness of sending lay people into a psychiatric unit, whose occupants are very likely to react with "Oh, so I can't get any help for my disorder, but there are resources to push me into a job that I probably won't be able to stick for long". And, having encountered some of the kind of people likely to end up doing this work, I strongly suspect that they'll quite possibly undo any good work that might (ideally, ha!) be being done therapeutically.

If the Government REALLY wanted to do something around mental health and work, the only way to do it is to start by resourcing the MH system properly. Too many people end up in hospital after years of the can being kicked down the road, inept and clumsy handling of patients, and a chronic lack of resources to deal with early interventions. Many of them feel betrayed and let down...so having someone breeze in and briskly suggest they write a CV or something is going to go down like a bucket of cold sick. Which, no doubt, will go down on the paperwork as "uncooperative - withdraw benefits".

I really cannot understand how our governments, of whatever stripe, can be so comprehensively ignorant of what needs to be done to improve mental healthcare, or the benefits doing that would have. I suspect it's largely because it would be a long-term project (plenty of those people in acute units will have had difficulties for YEARS), and they're only interested in Quick Wins.

It's obscene.

It took me two years to get seen on the NHS and during that time, I self-harmed a lot and had at least two suicide attempts.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Speaking as a dyslexic, I find OpenDyslexic harder to read than most normal fonts. Comic sans is no easier or harder, but well, it's Comic fucking sans.

But I'll get a bollocking if I don't use OpenDyslexic. On a pale yellow background. Although I'm aware that different people do better with different colours; hence coloured glasses, coloured overlays etc which are always person-specific and not one-size-fits-all.

 

[emanymton]

But I'll get a bollocking if I don't use OpenDyslexic. On a pale yellow background. Although I'm aware that different people do better with different colours; hence coloured glasses, coloured overlays etc which are always person-specific and not one-size-fits-all.

Pale blue is my colour, but for me at least pretty much anything is better than white so pale yellow is probably fine.

 

[weltweit]

Long time ago when job hunting I forget what font I used but I printed my CV on orange paper. When I used to phone to follow up and get feedback they used usually to tell me, we got loads of CVs to which I would respond but mine is orange and there it would be standing out in their in tray easy to find