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Recovery
Bromley Stories
Develop wants your Bromley stories!
If you have a personal story to tell about Recovery, and you'd like other people to learn from it, please send it to us at info@developbromley.com, preferably as a Word document. It can be long or short, don't worry, we can always edit it down to size if needed!
If you want other people to contact you for more information, perhaps because they would like to develop a similar project in Bromley, then please give us the contact details that you would like to share, and we can act as intermediaries.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Can we sustain the "magic"?
Develop's Fabian Davis wrote this article for the January 2010 edition of The Psychologist, talking about what the "magic" ingredient is that enables people to be able to "bounce" into inclusive living.
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Presentation made by Community Options including experiences from users of various recovery groups in Bromley
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Richard Sutton worked with Bromley Mental Health Services on programme called Values in Action between 1995 and 2000. VIA was a precursor to Develop and one of its features was the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Forum where service users, staff, families and service commissioners met on a monthly basis to listen to invited speakers and debate issues of the time.
The newsletters from that Forum can be found in the Social Inclusion Bromley stories section of this website but this is one particular reflection a the first talk in Bromley given about "Recovery" as a new idea. Richard was a frontiersman of the user survivor movement having been a founder member of Survivors Speak Out since 1987.
This piece was written whilst he was working as the expert by experience in the Bromley Long Term Intervention team which was managed at that time by now Develop Chair Fabian Davis. Fabian and Richard, Phil Jones and Judy Turner-Crowson were central to the VIA process which you can read about in the report under social inclusion bromley stories.
Sadly Richard passed away on June 15th 2000 a couple of years after he wrote this piece and before Develop was formally constituted although he did a great deal to lay the foundations for it - he would have loved Develop and is fondly remembered by many who are now involved.
We are publishing this piece now to mark the anniversary of his passing, preceded by a eulogy read by Fabian Davis at Richard's funeral.
Rhese conferences were chaired by Develop's Fabian Davis and had workshops run by Develop members.
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Photo recovery stories from some of the service users at Develop Partner Community Options.
You can find out more about Community Options here
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In April 2008 two members of staff and Trustee from Community Options attended the International Recovery Conference, From Innovation to Practice, promoted by the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. They also visited a range of services, seeking inspiration and an opportunity to benchmark.
The PowerPoint presentation is in support of a short debriefing that Tracy Simpson and Sally Lawson offered to the Recovery Net. It provides information that enable people to obtain further details from websites about the projects visited and some of the conference sessions which can be purchased as on-line training.
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Presentation made by Develop's Fabian Davis and BAP's Phil Jones.
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