This conference – the 10th annual event of its kind – will explore the mental health education and training agenda for both personalisation and peer support. This will be done through:

• presentations on the key themes of personalisation and peer support
• workshops concentrating on examples of education and training initiatives in relation to personalisation and peer support.

Aims of the conference

The overall aim of this conference is to bring together trainers and educators across the broad field of mental health to:

• discuss and critically reflect on the training and education agenda in relation to the two key areas of personalisation and peer support
• consider some examples of the effective delivery of training and education in these two key areas

• encourage networking and the sharing of ideas.

Speakers at the event

  • Chair: Robin Murray-Neil Putting People First Team, Department of Health
  • Chair: Thurstine Basset Mental Health Training Forum, Middlesex University
  • Kevin Lewis Personalisation Programme Lead, National Mental Health Development Unit
  • Anne-Louise Humphreys Carer and Director of Studies in Occupational Therapy, University of Liverpool
  • Karen Senior Step by Step Living Network
  • Pauline Heslop Senior Research Fellow, Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol
  • Richard Peacocke Mind Personalisation Champion
  • Linda Fallon Sustainability Development Worker, EMILIA (Empowerment of Mental Illness Service Users: Lifelong Learning, Integration and Action) Project
  • Dominic Makuvachuma-Walker Deputy Director (South Region), Service User Involvement Director, Together
  • Julie Repper Reader and Associate Professor, Mental Health Nursing and Social Care, University of Nottingham and Recovery Lead, Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Penny Arnold Peer Support Trainer, Making Waves
  • Torsten Shaw Peer Support Trainer, Making Waves

Who should attend

• Lecturers, senior lecturers, principal lecturers, visiting lecturers, tutors in higher or further education (from nursing, occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work and generic mental health backgrounds)
• Service users/survivor trainers
• Carers with a training/education role
• Training officers and training managers from NHS trusts, partnership trusts, primary care trusts, social services, voluntary sector   organisations, the independent sector, housing associations
• Practitioners and managers from the mental health field who have a training/education role
• Commissioners and purchasers of mental health training
• Commissioners of mental health training and education from Workforce Development Confederations
• Human resources personnel in the health and social care sector

Workshops

A. Commissioning mental health self-directed support: changing the culture and making co-production a reality – the Stockport experience
B. Reflections on the work of personalisation champions as part of Mind’s Putting Us First project
C. Peer support in action
D. Peer-based leadership training and other initiatives as part of Together’s Well-being Approach to Involvement Programme

Pricing

£ 255.00 + VAT for Public sector/educational/charity/NHS'/local gov/voluntary orgs
£ 295.00 + VAT for Central gov/private orgs
£ 195.00 + VAT for Unwaged/student/small vol orgs