Presenting a challenge to MBA students at the University of Exeter
Matt Merriam, our Community Mental Health Development Lead for East Devon, recently had the opportunity to set a challenge to local MBA students at the University of Exeter as part of the Local Community Impact Challenge (LCIC).
The LCIC provides business students the opportunity to practise their consulting skills and local community organisations a chance to get help solving problems. Hosting a workshop on Thursday 27th October, Matt presented this challenge:
“How can we develop a funding model to enable wide-scale communitarian responses to distress and wellbeing, including the transformation of community-based mental health services that is sustainable, non-competitive, strategic, long-term, collaborative, and grass-roots aware?”
Students were lining up afterwards to ask questions about how VCSE organisations providing mental health support currently secure funding, and what ideas they might be able to come up with that would be a better model.
Students will now choose which of the challenges they would like to be a part of helping to find a solution to. Over the next five weeks, they will work to create solutions and ideas for their respective challenge and then present their findings to the presenting organisations and other students.