News Release, 23 April 2001
The Mental Health Foundation has been awarded £43,000 by the Department of Health to develop a mental health trainers network. The first event - a workshop for 35 mental health service user / survivor trainers from England and Wales will take place at the Mental Health Foundation's London offices on Thursday 26 April 2001.
The project has been developed to tackle the shortage of mental health trainers with current or recent experience of service delivery and will increase the numbers of trainers, set up and manage a national database of mental health trainers and support them by disseminating best practice.
"Improving the quality of mental health services has to be a major priority - but we need people with recent experience who are able to play an active role in training others," said Nigel Duerdoth, director of research and development, the Mental Health Foundation. "Having developed the new Certificate in Community Mental Health Care to meet the challenge of developing a trained workforce, we quickly realised that there simply weren't enough trainers to go around - which just shows how mental health training has been overlooked."
The new project will also develop a course programme and materials for a two or three day "training the trainer course" to enable service users and practitioners to deliver the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care and a website with information on best practice and developments in policy and research.
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