Addressing the needs of particular groups of learners experiencing mental health difficulties

Factors such as age, ethnicity or having another disability can create the triggers that make people more vulnerable to experiencing mental health difficulties.  By developing briefing sheets and resources we hope that managers, practitioners, learners and service users can begin to understand and tackle the multiple barriers to participating in leaning and skills provision that some people with mental health difficulties experience.

By focusing on projects that relate to this strand of work

These projects include:

• Race into learning - Engaging people from black and minority ethnic communities with mental health difficulties into learning and skills
• Older people - Mental health and wellbeing and lifelong learning for older people
• Supporting people with personality disorder in Further Education
• Learning and skills opportunities in Forensics Services
• 1 in 4 learners information series - Your Learning Your Choice

• Direct Payments - Is it for me? A learning journey to direct payments as part of self-directed support

Anyone who is interested in improving services in learning and skills for people experiencing mental health difficulties.

We hope that the impact of this work will be increased awareness of the multiple barriers that some people with mental health difficulties faces in accessing learning and skills provision.