Promoting Recovery
From the establishment of the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) in 2004, SDC has supported its aims and activities.
One of SRN’s tasks is to influence practice development, and SDC has worked closely with the network on this.
SDC endeavours to bring a recovery focus to all aspects of its development work, for example when working with local areas to develop local policies and protocols it is interested to explore how recovery principles can be put into practice.
Employability
Employment and recovery are closely linked, with many people who have mental health problems testifying to the vital role work, meaningful activity and employment have played in their journey of recovery.
SDC has a track record in working in the field of mental health, employment and working lives. From 2000-2003, SDC ran an employment programme (with funding from the Scottish Executive Public Health Division), which consulted with service users, practitioners and employers on improving services, and examined the evidence for change and what works. The knowledge developed through this programme has been drawn together in a document - With Work in Mind (unpublished, The National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing). This document presents a vision of bringing together partners, local and national government strategies and interventions to support people with mental health problems into work and in work, and to foster mentally healthy workplaces.
SDC has developed training for employability providers around mental health,mental illness and recovery. Click here to download a brief description of the training.
This was successfully delivered in December 2009 with employability services in Edinburgh, and more details are available from both SDC and the client.
|
examples of SDC work
In 2006 SDC and SRN were commissioned by the then Scottish Executive to produce a scoping report on peer support in Scotland, to find out the barriers and opportunities for developing formalised peer support roles in the mental health system.
This report, and SDC’s subsequent contribution to a steering group and events, helped to shape the development of peer support pilot sites across Scotland.
Subsequently, The University of Edinburgh and SDC won the tender for the evaluation of the peer support pilots and completed this work in 2009.
SDC is interested in transferring learning, from mental health services to other parts of the health system and applied to the Long Term Conditions Alliance for a grant to research peer support in long term conditions services, and to transfer knowledge from the developments in mental health.
This work will be taking place in 2010/11.
|
