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A Chance for Change
This report details your feedback and a number of outcomes you told us you want to see from the refresh of the Scottish Government's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
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Build back better
These resources share learning from conversations at our online cafés. They highlight that lived experience, peer support and communities need to be at the heart of developing mental health support.
Bump, Birth & Beyond – short film transcripts
A film transcript for each of the six Let's do Peer Support: Bump, Birth & Beyond short films.
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Collaborative Providers
This report highlights how working collaboratively has helped the Scottish Recovery Network and other projects put people at the centre of service planning and redesign.
Creating Positive Change
Habitus Collective have been speaking with partners of Scottish Recovery Network and the wider mental health recovery community to understand the organisation's impact.
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Embedding a peer workforce
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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Gathering and preparing to share lived experiences of mental health and suicide
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).
Get your free Creating Hope with Peer Support resource
We've launched a new resource to help boost the capacity of community-based peer support groups in Scotland.
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Highland Hello
A multi-language project that encourages people to recognise that simple gestures can support us to feel more connected with others during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Learning from the Peer2Peer pilot
An independent evaluation of the Peer2Peer Development Programme by Ruthless Research.
Let’s Develop Peer Roles toolkit!
Want to introduce, develop and sustain peer support roles in your organisation?
Let’s do Peer Group Facilitation guides
A new co-designed resource with four free practical guides to help you run your own peer support group.
Let’s do Peer Support: Bump, Birth & Beyond
Full of real life insight and experiences this practical guide is packed with top tips, case studies and handy templates to help you plan and deliver perinatal peer support activities.
Let’s do Peer2Peer!
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.
Let’s talk about recovery
These resources harness the power of lived experience. They can inform how you develop support in your service, organisation or community.
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Making recovery real
Making Recovery Real gives people with lived experience of mental health difficulties the opportunity to be at the centre of decision-making, service design and practice development in their local community.
Making Recovery Real in Dundee 6 years on
Launched in 2015 this initiative continues to use a co-production approach that puts people with lived experience at the centre of decision making, service design and practice development.
Meaningful connections
This research explores how peer support in Scotland has adapted to a digital world during Covid-19 restrictions.
Mental Health Officer service development
A Mental Health Officer team project. The project explored how to involve people with lived experience in the redesign of the service.
Moving from consultation to co-design
NHS Lanarkshire Personality Disorder Working Group, Scottish Recovery Network and people with lived experience collaborated to co-design a new service for people with complex mental health problems.
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Peer Chat podcast transcripts
Transcripts of both the audio and film versions of the Peer Chat podcasts.
Peer values
Our peer values framework was developed with peer workers to improve understanding of peer support.
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Recovery Conversation Café
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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Scottish Recovery Network Strategic plan
A new future for mental health outlines how we will work with others to create a recovery focused mental health system that is powered by lived experience and embraces peer support.
Shaping Recovery in Scotland: How we’re making a difference
This Report and Executive Summary are the culmination of nearly two years of work with Habitus Collective. They used a variety of methods to evaluate our work to better understand its impacts.
Snakes and ladders
This poster highlights a range of factors that can help and hinder mental health recovery.
Staying connected
Insights and inspiration from people across Scotland on staying well and connected during and after Covid-19.
Story sharing materials
Guidance, ideas and templates that you can use to support people to share their stories of recovery.
Sustaining hope: recovery in social care services
Findings from a joint project between SAMH and Scottish Recovery Network to enhance recovery approaches in services.
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What makes peer support unique?
We asked people from across Scotland what makes peer support unique? This short animation highlights what they said.
What we Nourish will Flourish
Grampian Public Empowerment Group are working to create change around traditional consultation approaches, to develop more meaningful lived experience involvement through co-production.
What’s next for recovery?
This report outlines your views on a vision and strategy for mental health recovery in Scotland. It was developed as a result of a programme of national engagement.
Why is peer support so powerful?
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!
With Us, For Us
With Us, For Us provided an opportunity for people living with trauma and/or who have been given a diagnosis of personality disorder to share their experiences of services and their ideas for improvement.
With Us, For Us
In partnership with VOX Scotland, a project to ensure lived experience engagement in Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Personality Disorder Programme.
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Your Experience Counts
To learn from the experiences of people affected by self-harm we held a series of Recovery Conversation Cafés.
