A Peer Support Worker Competence Framework should surely be led by people who work within this discipline, as all other disciplines working within mental health…. more
Category: Lived experience work
Mental Health Peer Support Worker Competence Framework: A Personal & Professional Reflection
The absence of attention to peer leadership, grassroots principles and human rights movements has been the fundamental mistake in the NHS approach to implementing peer support roles. … more
How can organisations use the 4Pi Involvement Standards?
We hear about an organisation’s approach to embedding 4Pi and consider their reflections on the future of the Involvement Standards…. more
Jess on peer support
In the 4th post in our series #NSUNCovidLife, Jess Worner talks about peer support and her work at Together for… more
The inconvenient complications of peer support part 2
By Alison Faulkner, survivor researcher (based on a talk given at the Refocus on Recovery conference in Nottingham, 2019) 3…. more
The inconvenient complications of peer support
By Alison Faulkner, survivor researcher (based on a talk given at the Refocus on Recovery conference in Nottingham, 2019) I… more
Increasing hierarchical power structures within peer support?
I have been having some thoughts about what constitutes “peer support” and I have to say I am feeling quite… more