Main description:

This pack has been designed to skill participants as mental health brokers and includes a specialist focus on mental health issues, systems and supports. The course runs for five days and is broken down into five modules with step by step instructions for running the training. The accompanying CD-rom contains all the handouts and PowerPoint slides needed for the course. Contents include: Introduction Module 1: Introduction and basic skills Module 2: Assessment, review and the broker role Module 3: Mental health information and awareness Module 4: Legislation, strategy and the broker role Module 5: Brokerage role, boundaries and resources Supporting materials CD-rom with handouts and PowerPoint slides The book will inform and benefit: Individuals wanting to train as peer brokers: Individuals who have some personal experience of services who want to assist others and build their personal skillset in order to take a positive step into volunteering or work situations. Individuals wishing to train as independent specialist mental health brokers: Individuals working in community settings who are generally interested in providing a new service as self-employed independent brokers.
Organisations wanting their existing staff to acquire essential new skills as brokers: Many organisations recognise that they will need to work in new and innovative ways in readiness for the implementation of more personalised services. This training will allow staff to learn to work in a more personalised way and adds the potential for secondment opportunities for staff to be released from their normal duties to operate as independent brokers. This demonstrates commitment to user focused practice from organisations willing to support their staff gaining this additional skillset.