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Learning sets
Public Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community
Members of the Community will be invited to attend online ‘learning sets’ occurring every two months, to share their experiences of public mental health practice.
The virtual learning sets will be two hours long and will include presentations of projects/best practice followed by a Q&A on a selected topic proposed by a member of the Community.
The resources from the learning sets can be found below under each event.
This learning set will be held virtually on Wednesday 25 November 2026 between 10am-12 noon.
To register for the learning set, please complete this online form.
This learning set was held on Thursday 17 September 2026 between 1pm-3pm.
Resources
Recording
This learning set was held on Thursday 18 June 2026 between 10am - 12pm.
Resources
Recording
This learning set was held virtually on Thursday 23 April 2026 between 1pm-3pm.
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- Chronic deficiency of diversity and pluralism in research on nature's mental health effects: A planetary health problem
- Dose of Nature
- EcoGPX website: Connecting people and places
- Evaluation of a Nature-based Psychological Intervention: Dose of Nature Young People’s Programme
- Extending Nature Project
- Intercultural Roots
- Wellcome Trust: Engaged Research Resources (2026)
This learning set was held virtually on Wednesday 25 February 2026 between 1pm-3pm.
This learning was held virtually on Wednesday 19 November 2025 between 10am-12pm.
This learning set was held virtually on Thursday 18 September 2025 between 2pm-4pm.
This learning set was held virtually on Wednesday 16 July 2025 between 10am-12pm.
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- Essex Working Well | Workplace Health, done right
- Evaluations | NIHR Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST)
- GOV.UK | Night working hours - Health assessments
- Healthy sleep practices for shift workers: consensus sleep hygiene guidelines using a Delphi methodology | Oxford Academic
- Night Club – A programme bringing together sleep researchers, night shift workers and employers to help create better and healthier working environments
- NHS England | Patient and carer race equality framework (PCREF)
- Sleep and mental health | Health and social care | Hampshire County Council
- Thrive at Night evaluation
This learning was held virtually on Thursday 22 May 2025 between 10am-12pm.
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- Assessment and Treatment Memory Service | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Dementia Friends
- Dementia Friends | Alzheimer's Society
- Dementia | Warrington.gov.uk
- Evaluating the Councillor Mental Health Training Programme across Greater London and Greater Manchester | NIHR Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST)
- Half Day Course | MHFA England
- Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) | GOV.UK
- Orange Button Community Scheme | LSC Integrated Care Board
- Orange Button Scheme |Every Life Matters
- PHIRST Light - NIHR Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST)
- PMHIC Health Inequalities Briefing Pack - new online resource
This learning set was held virtually on Wednesday 19 March 2025 between 10am-11.30am.
Learning set recording:
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- What is the West Midlands Mental Health Commission? | West Midlands Mental Health Commission
- Patient and carer race equality framework | NHS England
- How we ask, how we act: A qualitative study exploring how mental health professionals discuss and respond to the social determinants of health with service users (Preprint) 2024
- Our programmes | myHappymind
- Recognising and responding to self-harm in schools | SORTS
- Autism suicide training | Zero suicide alliance
- Wellbeing Tools for Teachers | NASUWT The Teachers' Union
This learning set was held virtually on Wednesday 22 January 2025 between 2pm-3.30pm.
Learning set recording:
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- A closer look at bed poverty & the Household Support Fund crisis | Barnardo’s
- Better sleep toolkit | Oscar Kilo
- Collective responsibility, collective action to prevent student suicide
- Contact Hours tells a powerful story of student suicide: ‘We hope people come away feeling hopeful’ | The Independent
- Helping young people to get a better night’s sleep | News and events | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS
- Improving the mental health of babies, children and young people: a framework of modifiable factors - GOV.UK
- Live smarter. Sleep better. - YouTube
- NHS Futures: Better Sleep Programme Awareness (login details required)
- Rail Suicide Prevention
- Responding to a suicide: advice for universities
- Sleep: Children & Young People Health Services, Norfolk
- Suicide&Co | Support after Suicide Bereavement
- Suicide-safer universities: Guidance for sector practitioners on preventing student suicide
- Suicide-safer universities: Sharing information
- Supporting placement students
- Teenage Sleep: Children & Young People Health Services, Norfolk
- 12th Man | It’s a Strength not a Weakness
- University Students and Suicide Awareness Training
This learning set was held virtually on Thursday 17 October 2024 between 2-4pm.
Resources shared by members of the PMH learning community:
- Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA Centre): Child sexual abuse in 2022/23: Trends in official data
- Fingertips: Public Health Data collection
- Havering Youth Wellbeing Census Neighbourhood Report
- Kailo: A new research and design programme
- Neurodiverse Connection
- NHS Digital: Mental Health Dashboard
- Public Mental Health Leadership Certification course - registration for 2025 now open
- Zero Suicide Alliance: Autism and Suicide Awareness Training
Working with the PMHIC
To talk to one of our team about working with us on a public mental health project, email us at public.mh@rcpsych.ac.uk.