There are many organisations and services in Perth and Kinross providing different types of peer support. The Growing Peer Support Conversation Café is a chance for you to come together and meet!
Peer support in suicide prevention means different things to different people. It can mean support with our mental health and wellbeing, the challenges we face in life (such as homelessness, addiction, discrimination due to sexuality or ethnicity), being in crisis/suicidal, following a suicide attempt and bereaved by suicide.
We're delighted to be supporting this partnership event organised by Cruse Scotland and Mindspace. If you're involved in peer support in the area, we'd love you to join us as we connect and explore ways to link in with each other , discuss what's important to us, and the possibilities a peer network could offer in the region.
Who is this workshop for?
- Peer Support Volunteers, Peer Facilitators and paid Peer Workers
- Peer support groups and services
What can you expect on the day?
The Growing Peer Support Conversation Café will provide you with an opportunity to meet people involved in peer support and peer activity across Perth and Kinross.
We will look to:
- Identify the range of peer support activity
- Share experiences and learning
- Consider what a peer network could offer people involved in peer support
Refreshments will be available.
There will be an area for groups, services and organisations to share their information and resources.
Accessibility
The event partners support the #CommunicationForAll campaign. 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
Sign Language (BSL) users can contact us directly by using Contact Scotland BSL
A bit of background
This Conversation Café is a partnership event between:
Cruse Scotland, who are funded by Perth and Kinross Suicide Prevention Steering Group, to explore opportunities for people bereaved by suicide. Ann Hunter has been working with people locally.
Mindspace Perth and Kinross are a local organisation proving peer support, peer training and a Recovery College as well as counselling services. Kelly Gilmour is the Peer Support Development Worker.
Scottish Recovery Network are a national organisation promoting and supporting mental health recovery powered by lived experience.
