Student Minds' SUs

What is Student Minds SUs?

Student Minds SUs is a community designed to empower you and your students; union to become leaders in mental health.

Co-created with 11 partner SUs, the programme supports students’ unions to create cultural change and promote positive mental health within their own organisations, their university and wider communities.
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The community centred programme has a focus on peer to peer learning and knowledge sharing. It is designed to be responsive to the needs of our community members as they navigate new and local challenges presented by the pandemic.

Our Student Minds SUs Community Members benefit from:

• Access to our Students Union Mental Health Framework which outlines how students’ unions can take a whole-organisation approach to mental health
• Access to our digital community platform to connect with others, ask questions and share ideas
• Access to our full calendar of webinars and network events
• Bookable drop-in sessions with the Student Minds Sector Improvement team
• Regular policy briefings and insights from our national research, listening to student needs/the sector and programmes such as the University Mental Health Charter to inform your activities
• Access to a range of tailored training and support opportunities, such as our peer support train-the-trainer course and an appraisal and recommendations report on their whole-organisation approach to mental health
• Opportunities to influence the work of Student Mind’s research, projects and policy-work at a national level​

​Our Community Members:
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• Aberystwyth Students' Union
• Bishop Grosseteste Students’ Union
• Bucks Students’ Union
• Coventry University Students’ Union
• Hull University Students’ Union
• John Moores Students’ Union
• Keele University Student Union
• Leeds Beckett Students’ Union
• Queens University Belfast Students’ Union
• Reading University Students’ Union
• UCL Students’ Union
• Union of Kingston Students
• University of Lincoln Student Union
• University of Portsmouth Students’ Union
• University of York Students’ Union
• University of York Graduate Students Association
• University of Westminster Students’ Union

“The work that Student Minds is doing with Students’ Unions is invaluable. The training day I attended gave me a great insight into how to use co-production in developing a mental health strategy, and how to effectively listen to the student voice to shape it. Not only has this benefitted my work as an officer, I have also been able to work on personal development skills such as conflict resolution, dealing with disclosures and how to build an effective officer team. I would wholeheartedly recommend working with Student Minds to any Students’ Unions."
Jess Carrier, Welfare and Community Officer, Leeds Beckett SU (2018-2020)

“The Student Minds SUs programme has been fundamental in changing the Union's approach and strategy in supporting student mental health through the flexible in house support streams which provide incredible value for money and impact. The network days attended by staff members have helped to refocus what we do and how we do it and start to think differently about how we support our members. The ability to help shape the programme has also acted as a development opportunity and has ensured the programme is delivering on the needs of the collective Unions in the programme”.
Michael Wigg, CEO at Westminster SU

How to apply

We have closed recruitment for this years cohort, sign up to our newsletter  or email Susupport@studentminds.org.uk for more information. 

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