Getting into learning for people who experience mental health difficulties

In this strand of work we have undertaken projects that explore the barriers that many people who experience mental health difficulties face in accessing learning and skills provision, as well as activities and ideas for promoting access to learning and skills.

By focusing on projects that relate to this strand of work.

Projects include:-

• Stimulating demand for learning
• Enabling declaration
• Take Ten People - Integrating employment and learning and skills for people with experience of mental health difficulties
• Making the Journey - transport and travel issues for people who experience mental health difficulties
• Back on Track 2 - improving partnership working between FE colleges and Early Intervention in Psychosis Services
• Boosting WBL - Increasing take up of Work-based learning provision by people who experience mental health difficulties
• Reading for Pleasure - using reading and reading groups to build confidence in learning
• The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning 2010

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

We hope that by reading the project reports and by using the resources, managers, practitioners, learners and service users will be better able to understand how such issues as transport and travel can act as barriers or enablers in accessing learning and skills provision.

Project reports such as Back on Track 2 show how better partnership working enables more young people who experience mental health difficulties to remain in employment, education and training.