Student Mental Health Agreement (SMHA) Project
What is it?
The Student Mental Health Agreement (SMHA) project brings together the students’ association and institution together in partnership to develop, monitor and evaluate their mental health support offer.
The SMHA collates everything the institution and students’ association is doing around mental health and wellbeing into one document. The documents focus on a variety of topics, which are determined by representatives from the students’ association and institution leading on the project. No two SMHA’s are the same, the project encompasses the diversity of student needs and institution differences. However they all follow the same key steps when being developed.
Who is involved?
During 2022-2023 Think Positive is supporting 86% of all colleges, universities and students associations in Scotland to promote and develop their mental health support offer through the Student Mental Health Agreements project.
The project has the opportunity to positively impact 499,370+ students in 2022-2023.
Launched Student Mental Health Agreements are accessible on the individual college and university pages.
We currently work with a variety of institutions and students’ associations, shown here.
Why take take part?
Here’s what those who took part in 2021-2022 told us:
“The process of developing the SMHA has allowed many people from various departments and areas of the college to come together and collaborate to improve student’s mental health in a structured and positive way. It has also ensured that the student voice has led the development and have given us a tangible plan to show management in steps needing taken to ensure the college is mentally healthy”
Our support offer –
As the project is funded by the Scottish Government all of the below is completely free to participants!
- 1-1 consultancy support throughout the year via video, email and telephone.
- Access exclusive resources to develop SMHA’s.
- Invited to bi-annual events just for project participants, where we’ll showcase the SMHA work happening across Scotland.
- Be part of a Scotland-wide peer support network, where those leading on the project to discuss their opportunities and challenges each month.