A MENTAL health peer worker based at a clinic in Wickford is using her own lived experience to help ensure patient voices remain central to their care. Louisa Williams works as a peer worker at Essex ...

When Shawn Underhill worked as an ironworker, it was his job to check the fit-for-duty box for the crew, a standard part of the daily safety paperwork. "It was a lie," said Underhill, explaining that ...

At Scottish Recovery Network we bring people, services and organisations across sectors together to explore ways to create a mental health system powered by people with lived experience. Did you know ...

Country South Australians who have struggled with mental health issues could be key to helping others through their own battles. Centacare is calling for regional South Australians to use their ...

Peer support in mental health services is an increasingly integral component of care, valued for its capacity to enhance recovery, self-efficacy and empowerment among service users. By harnessing the ...

One-to-one specialist supports are helping young people tackle social anxiety, say experts at National Learning Network National Learning Network offers 70 certified, supported training courses across ...

The Sunnaas Foundation, a Norwegian non-profit foundation, has developed a Norwegian model of the Active Rehabilitation concept, in which peer mentorship is an essential element. Anecdotal evidence ...

A peer support worker employment initiative was developed to help young service users with the transition from child and adolescent to adult mental health services, an area that needs improving ...

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, a peer support program is a key component of healthcare worker well-being efforts. A program that features peer support is helping healthcare workers at Bon Secours Mercy ...

But a new training hub launched by the Mental Health Council of Tasmania (MHCT) aims to change that, leveraging the unique insights of people with lived experience of mental illness to address the ...