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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)