1. THE MENTAL WEALTH APPROACH
Bringing mental health and
wellbeing out of the shadows through
peer-to-peer advocacy
AUCC Conference
Thursday 27th June 2012
5. The ‘Mental Wealth’ project
Lets open minds…
create understanding…
…and connect things up!
6. 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 Oxford University of Wolverhampton
University of Sheffield University of Leicester University of Nottingham
University of Southampton University of Leeds University of Bristol
University of Kent Sheffield Hallam University Birmingham City University
University of Manchester University of Sunderland University of Exeter
University of Cambridge University of Glamorgan
University of Liverpool Leeds Metropolitan University
University of Swansea University of Birmingham
University of St Andrews Liverpool Hope University
Durham University University of Edinburgh
7. 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
8. 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)
