Centre for Mental Health

What we do

1. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and
Centres of Excellence

IPS is an effective, evidence-based approach to supporting people with mental health problems into employment. We have invited nine sites to join our Centres of Excellence in IPS programme. In each site, the local mental health trust will work with partners in employment services, local authorities and other agencies to offer people effective support to get into paid work. The learning from these sites will be shared across the UK.

2. Give line managers the confidence to respond to staff experiencing mental distress

Centre for Mental Health Workplace Training is a proven, work based programme that reduces the impact of depression and anxiety minimising the effects on an organisation. It uses a range of training techniques that build knowledge, skills and confidence amongst managers and staff to recognise and give help to colleagues with depression and anxiety.

3. Employment for people leaving the criminal justice system

We have brought together our two main work areas to identify effective practice and develop pathways into employment for people with mental health problems in the criminal justice system. We are exploring how the principles of Individual Placement and Support can be applied in the criminal justice system.