Peer Connects: peer support in early intervention
Scottish Recovery Network
This event is in the past
Are you passionate about the role of peer support in early intervention mental health and wellbeing support?
This webinar will focus on peer–led support as an early intervention approach to helping people stay mentally well.
We'll be talking about where peer support sits in the wider strategic approach to mental health and wellbeing support and what these types of services look like in practice.
We’ll be hearing from Wendy Callander, Executive Director at Wellbeing Works in Dundee and sharing examples of approaches that are supporting people in their communities. Approaches that are providing alternatives to an over-whelmed, medical focused mental health system.
• This webinar is for strategic thinkers who are interested in the role of peer support in early intervention
Online security and wellbeing
We will be using the video conferencing tool Zoom for this event. Your online security and wellbeing are our utmost priority. We will send out a secure Zoom link ahead of the event. If you want to call into this event on your phone (audio access) we can accommodate this.
Accessibility
Scottish Recovery Network supports #CommunicationForAll. If you have any accessibility or communication needs that would help you take part, please let us know. To book BSL interpreters or Electronic Notetakers we need two weeks’ notice.
If you have any further questions contact 0300 323 9956 or info@scottishrecovery.net
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Peer Connects programme 2024/25
Peer Connects is a programme of learning events and opportunities to connect and share with people passionate about the power of peer support!
Exploring different peer support themes the Peer Connects series brings us together to develop the peer landscape in Scotland and show the world what peer support can do!
#PeerConnects #PeerSupportScot
- Date
- 10:00-11:00, 3 December 2024
- Contact
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Jane Hutton
03003239956 - Theme
- Health & social care
- Cost
- free
- Attendance type
- Online only
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