THE MENTAL WEALTH APPROACH

Bringing mental health and wellbeing out of the shadows through

peer-to-peer advocacy

AUCC Conference Thursday 27th June 2012

Introduction

A Quick Bio… 2008 - 2012

Mental Wealth Tour

Grumble grumble…

“Closed minds..”

“There’s a language problem..” “Ignorance and misunderstanding…”

“Lack of coordination…”

The ‘Mental Wealth’ project

Lets open minds… create understanding…

…and connect things up!

Mental Wealth UK The UK’s network of student-led mental health and wellbeing advocacy groups As of February 2012: 25 Affiliated Groups

Cardiff University University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Kent University of Manchester University of Cambridge University of Liverpool University of Swansea University of St Andrews Durham University

University of Oxford University of Leicester University of Leeds Sheffield Hallam University University of Sunderland University of Glamorgan Leeds Metropolitan University  University of Birmingham Liverpool Hope University University of Edinburgh

University of Wolverhampton University of Nottingham University of Bristol Birmingham City University University of Exeter

11.15 - 12.45

Aims To explore and try to identify: • Why student-led initiatives are a good thing • How Mental Wealth groups can help counselling

services • How counselling services can establish/support

student-led initiatives & MW Groups • How we can manage the risks and work together

to make campuses better • Some practical steps going forward

Schedule 11.30: What can students do? What do MW Groups do? 11.35: What does it mean from the perspective of student counsellors? (discussion) 12.00: Co-creating effective student-led initiatives (game..?) 12:30: Creating a Project Development Kit (activity)