Feb 2008
Welcome to the
Hull and East Riding Mental Health Action Group
Peer Advocacy/Support Network
The Peer Advocacy/Support Network is a group of ‘'survivors' who have a commitment to developing groups, voluntary and social enterprise organisations and communities within the Hull and East Riding.
This website provides you with:
- news
- information about training, events and other development opportunities
- a chance to network with other people who are developing organisations and campaigning for better services within networks and raising critical-consiousness with HOPE within safe communities that can enable wellness and recovery and positive 'self-eteeem' using Non Violent Communication tools
- links to a range of useful on-line resources and tools
Defining Peer Support, Shery Mead March 2003 (PDF)
Peer Support - What makes it unique, Mead
MIND - Guide to Advocacy (PDF)
UKAN and Advocacy
What is Peer Advocacy?
Where one person who has experienced discrimination or disadvantage helps another person facing similar circumstances, this is peer advocacy. Disabled people and people who have used mental health services have become leaders in developing peer advocacy in many countries.
Leeds Advocacy on Peer Advocacy
Southampton CIL: Peer Advocacy
Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance: Peer Advocacy
Introducing and advancing the principles of mental health recovery and peer support (USA)
"A mental health service user peer-support project in Dewsbury claims to have led to its members spending 89 per cent less time as hospital inpatients." How does it do it? Adam James finds out.
What is a CSI? (Ontario Peer Development Initiative) A: CSI stands for consumer/survivor initiative. A CSI is a community agency run by and for people who have lived experience with the mental health system. They operate on principles of recovery by providing self-help and peer support, and also operate businesses using the community economic development model.
Peer to Peer Resource Center (Illinois - USA)
Mental Health Peers - Shery Mead (USA)
Freewebs: Sudbury Support (Ontario, Canada)
Trauma Peer Support (USA, ex forces)
Ingenta Connect - Peer Support Among Consumers of Professional Mental Health Services: Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research (USA)
Scottish Recovery - Peer Support (PDF)
Scottish Recovery: Peer Support Worker Conference Report (PDF)
Childline - Peer Support Scheme (PDF)
Cambs MH Scheme - Recovery and Social Inclusion Strategy (PDF)
Intowork - Peer Support into Employment (Scotland)
RCPSYCH, Lacey, A survey of psychiatrists' and nurses' views of mental health advocacy
What MHAG needs from a Peer Support Advocate Workers ?
“The Peer Support Advocate Workers must have personal 'lived-experience' of emotional distress and be prepared to share their personal recovery or continuing recovery story in the support of others”.
“MHAG recognises the expertise and wisdom which comes from having 'lived-experiences' of emotional distress and seeks to harness and use it to help other people recover. "
MHAG's 'new' Peer Support Advocate Workers which we hope to recruit will probably be involved in some group work, but it is anticipated that most of their time will be spent with 'survivors' on a one-to-one basis.
All material on this website
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