Jess on Mutual Aid

In the 6th post in our series #NSUNCovidLife, Jess Worner talks about Mutual Aid.

For the previous post in #NSUNCovidLife, click here. For the next post in the series, click here.

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NSUN Side By Side Fund

The NSUN Side by Side Fund is open for applications. The Fund will award grants of up to £500 to peer support, mutual aid or self-help groups in England and Wales to connect remotely, prepare to move their activities to face-to-face, or make their group more sustainable. Click here for more information
What do I expect? Better than this - the NHS complaints system

Blog by Nikki Mattocks
My experience of being sectioned

Blog by Emily Katy
Autism and colour in a monochrome anti-neurodivergent psychiatric setting

Blog by Zaynab Sohawon

What do I expect? Better than this - the NHS complaints system

Blog by Nikki Mattocks
My experience of being sectioned

Blog by Emily Katy
Autism and colour in a monochrome anti-neurodivergent psychiatric setting

Blog by Zaynab Sohawon
Card Games & Colouring Books: an Inpatient Perspective on being Sectioned

Blog by Jennifer Reese
Is lived experience leadership possible?

"There appears to be a very fine line that implies we have just enough of the personal experience but without the hurt and pain and the identity and politics that surround it. We must ‘be professional’ at all times meaning we must never be too loud, too abrupt, too emotional..."
"What do you do?"

"I now work in a service where I am explicitly paid to use my lived experience to try and bring about change in culture and practise. On paper I am part of the leadership team. This could be such a happy success story, couldn’t it... and yet... as the language has shifted along a bit, and a few of us given a salary, has anything really changed?"
My experiences as a lived experience leader

"It is not about me holding the power or authority as a 'Lived Experience Leader.' But being an enabler and facilitator of support for those with lived experience and myself, to make a change to improve the services that we use the most, and that matter to us."
Let me die, before I am killed

Let me die, before I am killed – a black male schizophrenic plea in relation to the Mental Health Act White Paper.
Reflecting on a peer support partnership of 13 statutory and VCSE organisations

Blog by Anne Beales and video by Principled Ways of Working Partners
Still breathing. Not dead.

Blog by Alice Smith, founder of NSUN member 361 Life Support. "We believe in emotional evolution - for ourselves and for society as a whole. To see beyond. Was this ever needed more than now?"

Jobs and involvement opportunities

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4Pi National Involvement Standards

Developed by people with lived experience as part of the National Involvement Partnership (NIP) project, the 4Pi National Standards ensure effective co-production, thus improving experiences of services and support.
Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit - Open Letters

The UK government is hosting a Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit in London on the 9th and 10th of October, 2018. The Summit aims to “build momentum on global mental health issues such as early intervention, public health, research, tackling stigma, and promoting access to evidence-based services.”. Read the Open Letters to the Organisers, Partners and Delegates of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, London
BME mental health service users launch manifesto

The Kindred Minds BME mental health service user led manifesto is a unique resource, has been written by BME mental health service users and has a comprehensive vision for the policy and practice changes needed to improve the mental well-being of BME mental health service users.
History

About the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) and the wider service user survivor movement. What we have achieved.
Join as a member or supporter

We are a user-led network of over 5000 individual and group members or supporters. We aim to connect, inform, influence, and improve the experiences of people who need services and support when in distress.
Survivor Researcher Network launch manifesto

Written by the Survivor Researcher Working Group, the SRN manifesto sets out the background and context to survivor and service user research and SRN's aims and values as a network
Alternatives to detention/sectioning under the Mental Health Act 1983. Can you help with suggestions?

As part of her work for the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Dorothy Gould is trying to collect as many examples as possible of alternatives to detention/sectioning.
About NSUN

Our vision is for the lives of people who experience mental distress, discrimination and disadvantage to be better
The Principles of Peer Support Charter

A collaboration between statutory and voluntary sector organisations has facilitated the production of a peer led and produced Principles of Peer Support Charter.