Peer support in mental health has been attracting particular attention as a consequence of the Government's ambition to deliver personalisation.The Personalisation in Mental Health programme has gathered examples of good practice to share with a wider audience on this website.
Click on the links below and you will find examples of peer support initiatives which have helped mental health service users on their recovery journey. These examples give a flavour of all the good work that is going on, along with contact details for each case study.
- Changing Minds Centre
- Chard Intentional Peer Support Group
- Compass Opportunities
- Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Psychotherapy and Itinerant Therapeutic Community
- Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service
- Let`s Work Together
- Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
- Oxford Road Project
- Paxton Green Time Bank
- Positive Therapy Company
- Re-energize
- Sheffield User Survivor Trainers (SUST)
- TimeBank- Back to Life
- Together for Mental Wellbeing - Reading Resource Centre
- Well-being at Work - London Network
You can download all the published examples in one document :pdf version or word document
Our thanks goes to all the organisations who have submitted examples and agreed to make these available.
If you are happy to share your hard work and successes with other organisations we would love to hear from you by completing the application form and returning it to Katie.Cheeseman@nmhdu.org.uk.