The Management of Mental Health Issues in Student Accommodation

A popular one day seminar examining how housing providers can respond to the needs of students experiencing mental health difficulties.

Synopsis / Speakers

A popular one day seminar looking at how to manage common and realistic mental health issues that occur in student residential accommodation.

This new seminar is designed to assist those who manage (or are responsible for managing) student residential accommodation who need to deal with mental health issues relating to tenants. The emphasis here is on the effective and correct management of issues that are likely to arise.

Suitable for:
Those involved in the management of student accommodation, student services and those advising students.

Mental health and how to deal with the issues it raises in a residential community remains an important area of expertise for anyone working in student accommodation. Increasingly, those on site want practical and helpful information, not an explanation of distant legal frameworks or an ever larger institutional mental health policy that never quite says what ought to happen.

This is a practical seminar with group work and presentations centring around five typical case studies that will be used as a tool to aid extensive discussion and information delivery involving both student support and legal issues relating to the ongoing management of mental health in student accommodation.

The five case studies will be sent to delegates 48 hours in advance of the course so that they can be discussed and considered (with colleagues if appropriate) and the day will place the issues raised in them within the wider support and legislative context that those dealing with the practical effects of mental issues need to know about.

We are fortunate in having the day co-led by two experts in the field, James Moore, one of the very first Mental Health Advisors to work in a University and Hilary Crook, a known expert in this field.

Speakers

James Moore, Mental Health Advisor
After qualifying as a social worker in 1983, James worked in various psychiatric settings for the next decade. In the mid-90's he moved into the field of mental health training including co-ordinating a Consortium which trained social workers to work under the Mental Health Act. In 2005, he combined his freelance training role with work as the part-time Mental Health Advisor at the University of Bradford, where he still works today. He is currently on MIND, the national Mental Heath charity, list of approved trainers.

Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal
Hilary Crook is a property lawyer and a nationally recognised expert on student accommodation issues. She is also a qualified trainer and a regular guest speaker at Unipol conferences.