Mental Health and Housing
Applicable to: England
Course location:
An overview of the mental health system and an understanding of housing issues for users of mental health services. Participants will learn how service users can access housing and resolve the common housing difficulties they encounter.
Course contains
- Mental health and disorder
- Admission to hospital
- Acting for a person without capacity
- Homelessness and allocations
- Community care services
- Housing difficulties faced by users of mental health services
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Discover how to access community care and specialist mental health services
- Understand the court process can help to prevent homelessness
- Assess vulnerability and current case law
- Understand the implications of the changes introduced by the Mental Health Act 2007
- Identify the rights that flow from s.117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Suitable for
Anyone involved in the provision of services, advice or support to users of mental health services.
Enquiry line
Please call 0344 515 1155 or email training@shelter.org.uk
In-house training
We can also run this course in-house. Find out more about in-house training 
