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Recovery
Services
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Supporting Service Users
Hearing Voices Support Group
The group is a place to learn more about hearing voices, develop coping strategies and gain mastery over the voices through self education and self exploration in a friendly, respectful and non-judgemental environment.
Meet regularly, talk freely and share experiences. Help to support other people to understand, learn and grow in their own way.
For more information contact:
Anchor House on 01689 811222
Stepping Stones on 020 8289 5020
Graham White on 07949 642 766
or e-mail stewarttight@hotmail.com
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Do you have current or past experience of mental health problems? Would you like to spend four hours a week supporting people with mental health problems emotionally and practically?
Then why not apply to join our friendly Peer Support team running social ‘Open Access' sessions where people can have fun, share experiences and support one another? High quality training and ongoing support provided.
Please contact us to find out when the next six-week introductory training course will take place. Final acceptance will be subject to demonstration of the key skills covered in the training and an advanced CRB check.
Contact: Nathan Rendell on 01689 811222
A forum for people to discuss their experiences of mental health issues, to share thoughts and feelings and explore strategies for recovery.
Please read "A Success Story" in our local stories section.
For more details contact Gina Benjamin on (020) 8313 1017
Email: gina.benjamin@community-options.org.uk
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Community Options offer a recovery pack: a one day training course that covers what recovery is, what the elements of recovery are, how professionals in a mental health setting can use recovery understanding in their daily work, who needs to recover, what we currently do, and an introduction to the recovery process and Person-Centred Planning. The training is run from 9.30am-4pm and is delivered at your organisation. Costs are dependent on numbers and individual requirements, please call for details.
We currently have services in Bromley and Greenwich.
Film: Community Options – Making a Difference
Contact:
Tracy Simpson
Community Options Ltd
2a Fielding Lane
Bromley
Kent
BR2 9FL
Tel: 020 8313 9725
Fax: 020 8313 9703
Email:
enquiry@community-options.org.uk
Website:
New Hope Recovery Group is a new opportunity for people who have been previous members of a recovery group.
This is a chance for people to continue exploring their recovery journey in a hopeful, supportive environment, on an ongoing basis. The aim of the group, as before, will be for members to self direct and have control of the path the group takes.
The group meets every week at: The Scout Hut (Opposite Horizon House), Prospect Place, Langdon Rd, Bromley BR2 9JS
The group meets every Thursday from 11am - 1pm
For more details contact: Gina Benjamin on 020 8313 9725 or Jon Cribbens on 020 8313 1017
A useful list of essential reading covering many areas including:
- Self esteem
- Stress and Anxiety
- Anger Management
- Eating Disorders
- Panic attacks
- Depression
- Obsessions and Compulsions
- Victims of Child abuse
- Head Injuries
These books are available from libraries throughout Bromley on an extended loan scheme - ask your librarian. Bromley's librarians have received mental health awareness training through Develop and the Bromley Primary Care Trust and will be sympathetic to your issues.
Download listing, and an alternative newer listing from Croydon
Collection of discussion groups listed by Yahoo! sharing mental health recovery experiences.
The groups require user to sign in, and the majority are moderated.
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Supporting Service Development
Compeer Inc. is an international, non-profit organization that helps adults and children overcome the devastating effects of mental illness, such as loneliness, isolation and low self-esteem – through the power of friendship.
Their volunteer-based programs and services, which serve as a complement to therapy, provide supportive friendships for people in mental-health care – helping them on their recovery journey.
Compeer has more than 80 chapters across the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
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We are a small and personal collective of experts by profession and experience working in the wider fields of Mental Health, Social Care and Young People's Services to advance recovery knowledge.
We define mental distress as a human condition and variation rather than a disorder, and believe that once we view people as distressed rather than ill, it opens up a wealth of opportunities to support the individual towards recovery and thriving.
Our approach challenges workers to reflect upon their own practice values and to consider creative ways in which the individual can be supported to become the expert of his/her own experience, identify the core problems, make sense of their experiences and find solutions for moving on.
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If you hear voices HVN can help - we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.
We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.
Hearing Voices Network (HVN), 79 Lever St, Manchester, M1 1FL
Tel: 0845 1228641
Email: info@hearing-voices.org
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The Centre has been developed by the International Mental Health Collaborating Network (IMHCN) and Working to Recovery Ltd.
The Centre operates from a recovery value base adopted by the “IMHCN Charter” to ensure services, education and research promote recovery for individuals, practitioners, systems of care and communities involved with issues of mental health.
The core service provided by ICRA-Whole Life is a “virtual learning and resource centre” that can be used both for teaching purposes and as a library of knowledge accessible to members. The virtual centre also acts as a repository for knowledge gained from recovery community development sites, member experiences, practical examples and other research programmes.
ICRA-Whole Life will also promote and develop a whole-life/well-being approach for individuals.
This site will connect recovery communities (service users, family members, workers, managers and policy makers) with Recovery Community Development Sites, Faculty Members and Members worldwide as learning collaborators by providing meaningful:
- Information
- Training/Education
- Consultancy
- Practice development
- Research
Website from the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation with excellent links to resources, newsletters and publications.
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SRN was formally launched as an initiative within The National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in late 2004.
We are working to:
- Raise awareness that people can and do recover from long term and serious mental health problems, and of what recovery might mean for people.
- Build our understanding of what helps people recover and stay well.
- Build capacity for recovery by highlighting and supporting examples of good practice.
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Sefton Recovery Group are a network of 350 ‘Experts by Experience' (people with lived experience of ‘mental illness services' family and friends) who practise Wellness Recovery Action Planning and self agency.
They are dedicated to awakening individuals, organisations and communities to Recovery and WRAP self management approaches, and define Recovery as ‘taking back control of our life in the presence or absence of illness through self management approaches such as WRAP'.
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FLORID is a website run by mental health service users for people who have experienced mental health difficulties.
It's a website which aims to bring together information relating to mental health in a way that is user-friendly and simple.
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In April 2008, over 900 participants joined together in Boston for the highly acclaimed conference, From Innovations to Practice: The Promise and Challenge of Achieving Recovery for All.
Following this conference is:
The Innovations Institute - a series of online video courses based on recordings of leading presentations from that conference.
Courses feature an outstanding collection of leaders from the US and around the globe, sharing innovative and effective ways to move systems, programs and practices toward a recovery orientation. Among the 14 courses available are:
- Shifting to a Rehabilitation and Recovery Paradigm
- Working as Peers
- Fostering Leadership in the Transformation of Systems
- and more!
Convenient and Affordable
All courses are offered online, so you can take them from anywhere you have Internet access -- from your home or your office; and at your own pace, any time of the day or night -- whenever you have the time. Also, these courses are very affordable, most costing $10 or $15.
Continuing Education plus Accreditation
These courses are open to learners from all levels and backgrounds; and offer continuing education credit from a variety of national and state accrediting bodies such as the APA, ASWB, NBCC, and many others.
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The Tidal Model was the first research-based model of mental health recovery, developed originally by nurses, with the active support of people who were using, or had used, psychiatric services.
Tidal is now recognised, internationally, as a key mid-range theory of nursing practice (Brookes, 2006).
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Working to Recovery Ltd, is a small, but dynamic and creative training and consultancy organisation.
Born out of the need to promote recovery for all, Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor worked to produce a company that offers training and assistance to suit all customers and clients.
Contact:
28 Habost, Port of Ness, Isle of Lewis, HS2 0TG
Tel: 0185 181 0060
info@workingtorecovery.co.uk
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