All Mental Health Projects
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Back on Track 2This project promotes a model of collaborative working between Further Education (FE) colleges and Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services. It is based on an innovative project in Portsmouth: Back on Track - a partnership between Headspace Early Intervention in Psychosis Team and Highbury College. |
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RUBLEThe Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning 2010 (RUBLE) is designed to support people experiencing mental health difficulties who wish to return to or take up work, volunteering or learning. |
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Race into learningThis project looks at some of the issues faced by adults from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (BME) experiencing mental health difficulties in accessing, progressing and achieving in learning. This information will be used to develop a guidance pack for Community Development Workers, Support Workers, Carers, Mentors and others offering support to BME adults within the mental health care system. |
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1 in 4 leafletsNIACE has produced a series of leaflets for people experiencing mental health difficulties to help them make choices about taking up learning and choices to make regarding learning.
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Making the Connection: The Mental Health and Family Learning pack |
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Enabling DeclarationLevels of declaration of mental health difficulties by learners and staff are low. The project explores practice within a range of settings that will enable and support people to declare, knowing that their needs will be met. |
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NWFEprojectMany young people who experience emotional and psychological distress may not have disclosed their difficulties to health services and have not received a diagnosis, or do not use conventional names to label their distress. Similarly, they may not disclose any such difficulties on enrolment with a learning provider. As a result, the 'real levels of emotional and psychological distress' in young people may be higher than those suggested by official statistics. As trusted adults within learning providers can often be the ones that young people turn to for support in the first instance, some exploration into the experiences of young people and their learning providers was needed. The North West LSC, being aware of the region's particular needs around mental health, and also having concern about the FE drop-out rates at age 16 and 17, provided funding for this project to take place. |
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Mental Health Matters for TeachersThere are two strands to the project.
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1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
MHFA in work-based learningThe project is funding 10 staff from Work-based Learning (WBL) providers in the South West to undertake Mental Health First Aid Instructor training, which is a 7 day training spread over 2 or 3 months. On completion of this training these members of staff will deliver the 2 day MHFA training to staff, learners and employers involved in their provision. In this way mental health awareness will be cascaded and embedded within the organisation. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Stimulating Demand for LearningWorking with learning providers and a range of other partners to implement specific strategies aimed at increasing demand for learning by people with mental health difficulties. Pilot sites across the 9 regions consist of one or more learning or service providers and a range of other partners, to form strong and effective local partnerships that are able to encourage and support people with mental health difficulties into learning. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Working WellWorking Well promotes staff well being in the post 16 eductaion and training sector. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Boosting WBL ProvisionThis project has worked with a range of work based learning (WBL) providers: colleges, private providers, local authority, voluntary and NHS organisations to find ways of increasing the quantity and quality of the provision that is offered to learners with mental health difficulties. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Reading for pleasure and mental health service usersThis project is developing the use of service-user-led reading groups in a range of settings, and investigating the impact on participant confidence. |
1 August 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Making the JourneyNIACE has carried out a small piece of research into how people experiencing mental health difficulties travel around in their everyday life (such as walking, driving, using public transport) and any issues or challenges they experience in travelling. We are especially interested in travel to adult learning classes, but the research done is not limited to this. |
1 August 2009 - 31 December 2009 |
Workforce Equality in Further EducationTo create and disseminate a resource for post-16 learning and skills providers to promote recruitment of staff with mental health difficulties. |
1 September 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
The Enhancement of Learning SupportThis project, being undertaken by Natspec on behalf of LSIS (Learnign and Skills Improvement Service), is designed to improve the quality and management of learning support for learners with additional needs across the FE sector. The initial phase is to identify sector needs, scope existing work and expertise in this area and produce recommendations for programme of training and development. |
16 February 2010 - 5 March 2010 |