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Creating Hope with Peer Support practice guides

Booklet, Peer Support, Tools

The guides are full of learning and practical tips, based on the experiences of peer support groups and services from across Scotland.

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Growing peer support in Scotland

Peer Support, Report

The findings in this report are intended to guide policy, practice, resourcing, and priority setting by offering clear, practical actions to support the growth of peer support across Scotland.

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Why is peer support so powerful?

Booklet, Peer Support, Poster

Peer support has a vital role to play in suicide prevention. These tools are a great way to introduce what makes peer support unique as well as doing a bit of myth busting along the way!

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Embedding a peer workforce

Booklet, Film, Peer Support, Transcript

Lived experience roles and leadership are an integral part of the mental health workforce. However, the right working conditions need to be in place for them to succeed.

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Recovery Conversation Café

Tools

This toolkit supports you to run your own recovery conversation café. It helps you to engage with people in a meaningful way to find out what is important to them.

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Let’s Develop Peer Roles toolkit!

Peer Support, Tools

Want to introduce, develop and sustain peer support roles in your organisation?

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Let’s do Peer Group Facilitation guides

Peer Support, Tools

A new co-designed resource with four free practical guides to help you run your own peer support group.

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Let’s do Peer2Peer!

Animation, Film, Peer Support, Tools

Peer2Peer resources help you to deliver peer training. They have been designed to be flexible. They provide hints, tips, and example approaches for people who want to run their own Peer2Peer course in their own way.

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Peer values

Peer Support

Our peer values framework was developed with peer workers to improve understanding of peer support.

Gathering and preparing to share lived experiences of mental health and suicide

Peer Support, Tools

Guide 1 is for people preparing to share their lived experiences (individuals). Guide 2 is for people who support people to share their lived experiences (organisations and services).

Different ways to share experiences. Audio, paper and pencil, video camera and mobile phone.