Mental Health Peer Support Project

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Mental Health Peer Support Project

• Fran McBride
• Peter Cameron
• East Dunbartonshire
• Community Health Partnership

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What is Peer Support ?

• A relationship of mutual support where people
  with similar life experiences offer each other
  support especially as they move through difficult
  or challenging experiences Scottish Recovery
  Network (2011).
• Peer support is generally described as
  promoting a wellness model that focuses on
  strengths and recovery the positive aspects of
  people and their ability to function effectively
  and supportively, rather than an illness model
  (Carter, 2000)

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Peer Support Principles

• Sharing lived experience
• Empathy
• Mutuality
• Shared responsibility
• Empowerment
• Respect and acceptance

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National Context

• Scottish Recovery Network/Scottish Government -
  Evaluation of the Delivering for Mental Health
  Peer Support Worker Pilot Scheme
• Scottish Government National Mental Health
  Strategy for Scotland Consultation (2012- 2015)
  Commitment 3 We will commission a short review
  of work to date in Scotland on peer support as a
  basis for learning lessons and extending the use
  of the model more widely.

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EDCHP Peer Support Model

• Funding from East Dunbartonshire CHP /East
  Dunbartonshire Council
• Peer Support Service within Adult Community
  Mental Health Services
• 2 year pilot
• 1WTE 2 part-time Peer Support Workers

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Aims of service

• Improve patient experience of mental health
  services
• Promote recovery focussed, person centred
  approaches within mental health services.
• Bring service user perspective to service
  delivery and improvement
• Positively promote anti stigma within the
  workplace

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Setting up service
Recruitment
Induction
Evaluation
Learning
Mental Health Peer Support
Building relationships
Supervision
Educating
Systems processes
Establishing networks
Positive PR
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Peer Support Intervention
Setting Goals
Staying Well Plans
Positive thinking
Signposting
Mental Health Peer Support
Engaging In Activity
Support advice
Support into organisations
Group work
Advance personal statements
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Service activities

• EQIA process for CMHT
• Community and Personal Assett development
• Advanced Personal Statement
• Scottish Mental Health Film and Art Festival
  East Dunbartonshire Event

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Consultation/sharing practice

• Scottish Recovery Network
• Renfrewshire Employment Pathway Development Day
• North Glasgow Restart
• Mental Health Connections
• ED Stop, See Me, Listen Better Outcomes Event
• Realising Work Potential
• Mental Health Strategy for Scotland Consultation

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Evaluation

• Referral information
• Service User Questionnaire
• Case Study
• Evaluation of staff views of benefits of peer
  support
• PSWs reflection on their own development

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Feedback Service Users

• The Peer Support Worker could relate to my
  mental health state from his own personal
  experience which made me feel at ease.
• The Peer Support Worker has enabled me to carry
  out certain tasks out with the home without
  previous levels of anxiety. Having a peer support
  worker was extremely helpful.

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Feedback External organisation

• One of the privileges of working with the Peer
  Support Worker is witnessing first hand the
  open-minded and open-hearted approach to working
  together with people. The way the worker uses
  their own experience to create an equal platform
  which empowers and promotes honest dialogue with
  those he is working with is truly inspirational
  we all have a lot to learn from him.

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Feedback CHP staff member

• Its incredible to witness how positively
  service users respond to the advice offered by
  someone who has been in their shoes. This only
  works through the sincere and compassionate
  method the Peer Support Worker delivers this
  service.

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Contact details

• Fran McBride
• Head Occupational Therapist/Peer Support Manager
• Frances.McBride_at_ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• Peter Cameron
• Peer Support Worker
• Peter.Cameron_at_ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• 0141 232 8200