Peer recovery hub

Creating Hope with Peer Support

We’re collaborating with local and national suicide prevention partners to boost community-based peer support groups across the country.

Scottish Government and COSLA Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan – Creating Hope Together – recognises the valuable contribution of peer support in our communities.

Space, compassion and hope

Peer support has a significant role to play in suicide prevention. A peer support approach provides space, compassion and hope for people in crisis. Connecting with others with similar experiences provides a space where people can share, feel listened to and be heard. Peer support helps people to see that they are not alone. It can contribute to making sure people receive help at the earliest opportunity. It can ensure the right support is there for people and their families at the right time.

Learning & networking events

At the heart of the Creating Hope with Peer Support project is providing spaces for people, organisations and services to come together to connect and share learning around suicide prevention. In particular spaces where the voices of lived experience are recognised and valued.

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Workshops

Come together to build your confidence in developing supportive peer relationships with people affected by suicide.

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Co-deliver a workshop with us

We’re working behind the scenes with groups, organisations and services to co-deliver Creating Hope with Peer Support workshops to their Peer Workers / Supporters / Volunteers (order your free resource below). If you would be interested in co-delivering get in touch

This is a compassionate, gentle approach. It humanises suicide in that it doesn’t feel clinical.

Creating Hope with Peer Support, pilot participant

Get your free resource!

This practical resource was co-designed and piloted by groups and organisations already delivering peer support for people impacted by suicide. It uses the Creating Hope with Peer Support Pathway to outline four key stages of the peer support relationship and journey: Connect, Explore, Hope and Support.

Safely sharing experiences

A partnership project with United to Prevent Suicide and the Suicide Prevention Scotland Lived Experience Panel has resulted in the launch of two new guides to support the sharing and gathering of experiences of mental health and suicide.

The Gathering Lived Experiences’ guide is a fantastic resource. It’s my bible when working with the lived experience panel, and is particularly helpful for the safe induction of new panel members.”

Tracy Millar, Lived Experience Panel Coordinator