Growing Peer Support in Shetland

Are you interested in the role of lived experience and community based peer support in mental health and suicide prevention in Shetland?

Scottish Recovery Network is excited to explore the role of peer support in mental health and suicide prevention in Shetland.

This event is in partnership with NHS Shetland and Voluntary Action Shetland.

If you're involved in peer support in the area, or are interested in its role within mental health and suicide prevention, we'd love for you to join us.

This event will provide the opportunity to connect and explore ways to link in with each other, discover what local peer services are doing and what opportunities there are to get involved.

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.

What can you expect on the day?

• Learn about the powerful role of peer support and its impact in relation to mental health recovery and suicide prevention
• Hear from local peer support groups and services
• Explore what is needed to grow and sustain peer support
• Discuss local suicide prevention activity and opportunities to be involved.

“The ability to network and meet peers. Great to see services between the sectors get a chance to meet and communicate!"

"Feeling empowered that the work we do is making such a positive impact."

Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.

Who is this event for?

• People with lived experience
• Peer Supporters (volunteers and paid)
• Professionals from third and public sector mental health services
• Wider community groups/services interested in suicide prevention

Accessibility

The event partners support The ALLIANCE #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

Scottish Recovery Network is a national organisation promoting and supporting mental health recovery powered by lived experience.

The Scottish Government and COSLA'S Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan – Creating Hope Together – recognises the valuable contribution of peer support in our communities.

The Creating Hope with Peer Support project brings people from across sectors and different walks of life together, to connect and explore the role peer support can play in suicide prevention.

With a focus on the power of lived experience to affect positive change, the project is working with a wide range of partners to boost peer support groups and services in communities and across the country. It is helping to build capacity so that people and families affected by suicide can receive help at the earliest opportunity.