Peer Support in Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire’s Peer Learning Network launch film to raise awareness of the role of peer support and to celebrate its success as part of SMHAFF Lanarkshire and Global Peer Supporter Recognition Day.
Lanarkshire’s Peer Learning Network launch film to raise awareness of the role of peer support and to celebrate its success as part of SMHAFF Lanarkshire and Global Peer Supporter Recognition Day.
‘Peer Support in Lanarkshire’ was officially launched in September 2016 at the Lanarkshire Links Members AGM to help celebrate Lanarkshire’s contribution to the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival in October and also Global Peer Supporter Recognition Day which will be held on 20th October.
This film was produced to raise awareness of paid peer support in Lanarkshire and to celebrate its success. Our hope is that, through this short film, people will have a better understanding of what peer support is and how it can positively contribute to a person’s recovery journey.
People involved in this project include those with lived experience of mental health issues who have received peer support, Peer Support Workers (PSWs), and other staff involved in the provision of mental health services who work alongside PSWs.
Recovery is not time limited. It is a process, a journey and experienced within the framework of your own sense of time. Just as there is no true, objective reality according to the laws of special relativity, there is no universal truth according to the definition of recovery.
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