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Recovery
Welcome to our recovery pages. These pages are run by Develop's recovery inclusive practice forum, which for historical reasons is still called RecoveryNET. This is a partnership of organisations and individuals with an interest in understanding the recovery concept from the point of view of each other's personal experience:
"Mental health recovery is a journey of growth and change. It is a process of moving towards a life that the person chooses for themselves. Recovery can be about reaching a place that feels ok to be, or about how a person arrives at a place where life has new meaning and purpose."
RecoveryNET meets on a quarterly basis to discuss how we can move forward with the recovery concept, how it can help, and how it can hinder, and how it can improve practice in mental health services and inform work on mental health matters in the wider community.
What we have to offer:
- We share inclusive practice.
- Support projects that are promoting recovery.
- Events and an annual international conference.
- We can signpost you to training opportunities and find solutions to current issues related to recovery.
In this section you will be able to find:
- Services that are promoting recovery locally, regionally and nationally.
- Events about recovery from near and far.
- Evidence and policy - Research and background reading on what recovery means, mental health services recovery policy, what recovery-oriented practice looks like and how the recovery concept can be used to inform the development of services.
- Guidance and tools that can be used to support recovery including wellness recovery action planning.
- News - stories about people's recovery "journeys".
- A discussion forum - A place to ask questions, share concerns, find support and offer or obtain advice including how to use the recovery concept in your workplace if and when mental health matters arise.
- Training about the notion of recovery and how to work with the tools developed by people in recovery and the professionals supporting their journeys.
If you would like to take part in the recovery forum please contact: recoveryNET@developbromley.com
A new chance to attend a new recovery group
17th Jun 2010
The Recovery Group, a forum partnered by Develop, Oxleas NHS, Bromley Mind, Community Options and the London Borough of Bromley, will once again be opening its doors to group members to discuss their experiences of mental health issues, to share their thoughts and feelings and explore strategies for recovery.
The group focuses on the hopeful process by which individuals can learn to live with their difficulties and experiences. The group does not aim to cure or deny mental health problems.
Please visit the listing on our recovery services page to download the invitation form and flyer, which we encourage people to download and display:
Community Options invite you to Come Meet The Team
10th May 2010
Develop Partner Community Options would like to meet with you to ask for your ideas on a new name for the service and to gather your thoughts on a way forward.
Sharing your views will enable us to tailor this service to meet your needs and the aspirations of our community.
Please drop in for tea and cakes and an informal chat on:
Tuesday 25th May (2-7pm)
at Community Options Head Office: 2a Fielding Lane, Bromley BR2 9FL
Thursday 27th May (1-5pm)
at Anchor House, Orpington: 5 Station Road, Orpington BR6 0RZ
Wednesday 2nd June (2-7pm)
at Anerley Town Hall: Anerley Road, London SE20 8BD
Thursday 10th June (2-7pm)
at Beckenham Mind Centre: 20b Hayne Road, Beckenham BR3 4HY
For further details please call 020 8313 9725
or email: suip@community-options.org.uk
Judi Chamberlin (1945-2010)
21st Jan 2010
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the passing of Judi Chamberlin, who died on the 16th of January, 2010 at the age of 65, after a long battle with illness.
Judi, a self-professed "psychiatric survivor", will be remembered as a champion of the rights and dignity of people with a mental illness. She had in the recent past travelled from her home country of the United States, where she worked on projects for the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, to Bromley to speak at Develop RecoveryNET conferences, where she was warmly received (you can see her at the 2004 conference at developMEDIA).
Even during her final year she bravely advocated the rights for the terminally-ill to die at home and not in a hospital, and her on-line blog judi-lifeasahospicepatient.blogspot.com recorded her daily battle with her illness.
We offer our deepest sympathies to Judi's daughter, three grandchildren, and all of her friends and colleagues at this difficult time.
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