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Mental Health Peer Support Project

Mental Health Peer Support Project. Fran McBride Peter Cameron East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership. What is Peer Support ?.

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Mental Health Peer Support Project

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  1. Mental Health Peer Support Project Fran McBride Peter Cameron East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership

  2. What is Peer Support ? “A relationship of mutual support where people with similar life experiences offer each other support especially as they move through difficult or challenging experiences” Scottish Recovery Network (2011). “Peer support is generally described as promoting a wellness model that focuses on strengths and recovery: the positive aspects of people and their ability to function effectively and supportively, rather than an illness model (Carter, 2000)

  3. Peer Support Principles • Sharing lived experience • Empathy • Mutuality • Shared responsibility • Empowerment • Respect and acceptance

  4. National Context • Scottish Recovery Network/Scottish Government - Evaluation of the Delivering for Mental Health Peer Support Worker Pilot Scheme • Scottish Government National Mental Health Strategy for Scotland Consultation (2012- 2015) Commitment 3: We will commission a short review of work to date in Scotland on peer support as a basis for learning lessons and extending the use of the model more widely.

  5. EDCHP Peer Support Model • Funding from East Dunbartonshire CHP /East Dunbartonshire Council • Peer Support Service within Adult Community Mental Health Services • 2 year pilot • 1WTE = 2 part-time Peer Support Workers

  6. Aims of service • Improve patient experience of mental health services • Promote recovery focussed, person centred approaches within mental health services. • Bring service user perspective to service delivery and improvement • Positively promote anti stigma within the workplace

  7. Setting up service Recruitment Induction Evaluation Learning Mental Health Peer Support Buildingrelationships Supervision Educating Systems & processes Establishingnetworks Positive PR

  8. Peer Support Intervention Setting Goals Staying Well Plans Positive thinking Signposting Mental Health Peer Support Engaging In Activity Support & advice Support into organisations Group work Advance & personal statements

  9. Service activities • EQIA process for CMHT • Community and Personal Assett development • Advanced & Personal Statement • Scottish Mental Health Film and Art Festival – East Dunbartonshire Event

  10. Consultation/sharing practice • Scottish Recovery Network • Renfrewshire Employment Pathway Development Day • North Glasgow Restart • Mental Health Connections • ED Stop, See Me, Listen = Better Outcomes Event • Realising Work Potential • Mental Health Strategy for Scotland Consultation

  11. Evaluation • Referral information • Service User Questionnaire • Case Study • Evaluation of staff views of benefits of peer support • PSW’s reflection on their own development

  12. Feedback: Service Users “The Peer Support Worker could relate to my mental health state from his own personal experience which made me feel at ease.” “The Peer Support Worker has enabled me to carry out certain tasks out with the home without previous levels of anxiety. Having a peer support worker was extremely helpful.”

  13. Feedback: External organisation “One of the privileges of working with the Peer Support Worker is witnessing first hand the open-minded and open-hearted approach to working together with people. The way the worker uses their own experience to create an equal platform which empowers and promotes honest dialogue with those he is working with is truly inspirational; we all have a lot to learn from him.”

  14. Feedback: CHP staff member “It’s incredible to witness how positively service users respond to the advice offered by someone who has been in their shoes. This only works through the sincere and compassionate method the Peer Support Worker delivers this service.”

  15. Contact details • Fran McBride Head Occupational Therapist/Peer Support Manager Frances.McBride@ggc.scot.nhs.uk • Peter Cameron Peer Support Worker Peter.Cameron@ggc.scot.nhs.uk 0141 232 8200

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