Events and training
This page includes news and information of relevant events and training being held in Leeds, and presentations from recent conferences and events. Please also see the weekly email which we send to all Volition member organisations and the What's new? page for details of Volition's current work.
Mental Health Providers Forum Annual Conference 18th November
Personalisation: Making it work! – Effective methods of involving service users and developing leadership - the 2010 Mental Health Providers Forum annual conference is now taking bookings.
Taking Charge of of Lives, Saturday 4 September. Volition is supporting this event for people who want to find out about opportunities and develop strategies for staying mentally healthy in Leeds. Information stalls, workshops and a performance stage. Contact Volition to book a place.
Voluntary Action - Leeds and Leeds Voice are the main contacts for funding, training and vacancies in the Leeds voluntary sector. LAF (Yorkshire) (formerly Leeds Accommodation Forum) also deliver training to the voluntary sector, as do the Holistic Partnership and several Volition member organisations including St Anne's Community Services, Leeds Mind, Community Links and Leeds Counselling.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
MHFA is a national training programme to teach people how to recognise the symptoms of mental health problems, how to provide initial help and how to guide a person towards appropriate professional help. Locally it is delivered by Community Links.
Carers Connections Training at LPFT
Carers Connections is a diverse programme of information and training for carers to support them in their caring role. You can download the summer programme here (Word, 135 KB), or access further information here.
Expert Patients Training (EPP) at NHS Leeds
The EPP Course is a tried and tested free course for people with long term health conditions or disabilities to improve how people feel, look after themselves and their quality of life. New Beginnings is a version of the EPP course specially adapted for people with mental health issues, delivered over 7 consecutive weekly sessions, each lasting two and a half hours. Download the information leaflet (Word, 178 KB) or contact Karen Gouly at NHS Leeds for more information.
Presentations and notes of recent events:
Volition Members Away Day 2010:
Current picture, future horizons, 28th January 2010
The programme, along with the presentations and workshop notes (roughly in chronological order) are available to download below.
Poster (PDF, 448KB)
Programme (Word, 397KB)
Volition Presentation (PowerPoint, 521KB)
Summary of workshops (Word, 38KB)
Workshop - Mental Health Act - presentation (PowerPoint, 593KB)
Workshop - The Strengths Approach to Recovery - presentation (PowerPoint, 58KB) & handout (Word, 465KB)
Workshop - The Compact - presentation (PowerPoint, 532KB)
Workshop - Developments in personality disorder - presentation (PowerPoint, 40KB)
Workshop - Refugees & mental health - presentation (PowerPoint, 965KB)
Workshop - Mental health & employment - presentation (PowerPoint, 393KB)
Workshop - Contracts & commissioning - notes (Word, 37KB)
Jill Copeland, LPFT - Presentation (PowerPoint, 9.75MB)
Peter Bates, NDTI - Presentation (PowerPoint, 4.95MB) & notes of keypoints (Word, 30KB)
Kim Adams, ASC - Presentation (PowerPoint, 1.82MB)
Jane Williams, NHS Leeds - Policy update presentation (PowerPoint, 1.21MB)
Clare Shaw's poems (Word, 20KB)
The evaluation report of the event is available to download here (Word, 38 KB)
Are we there yet?
i3 conference on progress towards mental health day service modernisation, 1st April 2009
The programme, presentations and session notes (in chronological order) are available to download below.
Programme (Word, 71 KB)
Presentation - i3 Where are we? - Ursula Klingel (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
Presentation - Service user and carer perspectives (PowerPoint, 1.5 MB)
Presentation - Is everybody else there yet? - Ben Taylor (PowerPoint, 80 KB)
Panel discussion notes (Word, 30 KB)
Notes of Tim O'Shea's presentation (Word, 147 KB)
Presentation - final key messages and actions (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
A summary of evaluations can be downloaded here (Word, 30 KB)