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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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Evidencing the impactThis programme of work brings together evidence of the impact of family learning on parents and carers, families and communities. The material has been collected from a variety of projects that NIACE has been involved in, and interconnects with the work we have been carrying out on progression in and from family learning. |
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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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Mental Health and Wellbeing for Older PeoplePromoting lifelong learning for people aged 50+ years and how this can help maintain and improve mental health and wellbeing in later life. |
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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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Getting into learningThis strand of work is concerned with projects that are about supporting people who experience mental health difficulties to access the diverse range of learning and skills provision available. |
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Addressing needsAlthough the work of the Partnership Programme is concerned to promote access to learning for all people who experience mental health difficulties, we acknowledge that certain groups of people with mental health difficulties may experience multiple barriers to learning and skills because of age, ethnicity, other disability or because of their particular mental health needs. |
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Improving provisionThis strand of work is concerned with improving services for people who learn and work in learning and skills provision. |
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Understanding Direct PaymentsMany adults, including people with mental health difficulties are motivated to return to adult learning by interest in, and necessity to learn about something of direct relevance to their lives. As a means by which people can take greater control over the support they receive, the social care personalisation agenda can provide that "hook" that enables individuals to take the first step back into adult learning and from which they can be signposted on to other opportunities if they wish. |
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The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong LearningThe Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning, in celebrating equality and diversity, aimed to investigate and report on current practices in the employment of disabled people in the lifelong learning sector, in order to make recommendations that positively influence culture and practice and promote career opportunities for disabled people. |
1 March 2007 - 31 March 2008 |
Making the ConnectionThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.
This project, which ran from 2007-09, brought together mental health organisations, family learning practitioners and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to build partnerships, as well as developing good practice to promote positive mental health to adults engaged in family learning. It resulted in a resource pack for adult and family learning and mental health practitioners. |
1 April 2007 - 31 March 2009 |
Regional NetworksThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. As part of the mental health programme of work a mental health project officer works in each of the English regions. The regional project officers' (RPOs) roles vary slightly from region to region - in response to different regional priorities, funding and other opportunities to develop work and collaborate with others. Each RPO facilitates a regional network for people who have an interest in mental health and adult learning, skills and employment. Members include people who work in the further education, health and social care, employment, criminal justice, third and private sectors, as well as learners and other adults who have personal experience of mental health difficulties and/or their carers. The networks enable people to learn from each other by sharing and collaborating in the development of good practice, and providing access to information, resources and partnership working opportunities. If you are interested in improving adult learning and skills opportunities for people who have experience of mental health difficulties you are welcome to join our Network. Membership is free and you will be joining over 2,000 people accross the country who share an interest in this subject. How to join:-
The Partnership Programme also supports network members by offering the opportunity for online networking via a NIACE Moodle and provides an email newsletter to keep you up to date with NIACE news, information about regional and national projects, details about conferences and free resources.
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1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Mental Health Matters for TeachersThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. There are two strands to the project.
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1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
MHFA in work-based learningThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. The project is funding staff from Work-based Learning (WBL) providers in the South West to undertake Mental Health First Aid Instructor training. On completion of the training these 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 LearningThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Working 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 WellThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Working Well promotes staff well being in the post 16 eductaion and training sector. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
Boosting WBL ProvisionThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This 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 |
Take Ten PeopleThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Take Ten People promotes and supports an integrated approach to employment and learning and skills with adults who have experience of mental health difficulties. It is a collection of resources for use in different ways: As tools to support practitioners in their work with individuals; and to support their personal professional development; as resources to support local cross-sector joint working and as a training pack for organisations and/or partnerships to use for workforce development. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
NWFEprojectThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Many 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. |
1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 |
YPMH Awareness ResourceThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This is a resource of 12 awareness modules that has been developed through the Learning & Skills Council in the North West. |
1 April 2009 - 31 July 2010 |
Reading for pleasure and mental health service usersThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. This 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 JourneyThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. Making the Journey is a NIACE research report, reporting on findings from questionnaire and focus group research into how people experiencing mental health difficulties travel around in their everyday life (such as walking, driving, using public transport) and issues or challenges they experience in travelling - especially in relation to learning and working. |
1 August 2009 - 31 December 2009 |
Workforce Equality in FEThis project has now finished. We've left it here for reference. To 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 |