Scottish Recovery Network and the Young Women’s Movement

Day

Tuesday 7 November

Time slot

09:30-10:30

This event took place 6 months ago

Room

Pentland auditorium
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Elena Soper

Topics

Equality, diversity & human rights Health & social care Families and communities

Overall aim

Guide participants through a journey of engaging with lived experience in their services and organisations through practical examples from the Scottish Recovery Network and the Young Women’s Movement.

Leave with a clearer understanding of peer support, how it can help them to achieve the outcomes or impacts they seek.

Leave with a greater understanding of participatory led research models and how the YWM's co-design with young people approach works in practice.

Description

This event is co-facilitated by the Scottish Recovery Network and the Young Women’s Movement, two organisations who work closely with peers to ensure lived experience is at the heart of their work.

You will hear from staff members from SRN and YWM about specific projects and there will be a panel discussion from the presenting organisations and young women currently working with YWM on the EmBody to EmPower project.

Scottish Recovery Network have a range of peer support resources including the recently launched Let’s Develop Peer Roles toolkit as well as training and practice resources. They have also worked with a wide range of organisations and groups to support the development of volunteer and paid peer roles including recently with ICU Steps who support people who have experienced critical illness and treatment in ICU.

The Status of Young Women in Scotland has been the Young Women's Movement flagship research project since 2015. Their recent report highlighted young women's experiences of accessing healthcare in Scotland. As an outcome of this research, a collective of young women and non-binary people are co-designing resources for young people and healthcare professionals. These will build understanding around what good experiences of accessing healthcare are and support young people to feel confident to advocate for themselves.

Who was the event aimed at?

Frontline service delivery

Who spoke at this event?

Elena Soper, the Young Women's Movement
Lou Chauvin, the Young Women's Movement
Melissa McNab, the Young Women's Movement
Laura Pilkington, the Young Women's Movement
Louise Christie, Scottish Recovery Network
Maya Mitchell-Grigorjeva, Bipolar Scotland
Shona MacColl-Mooney, Bipolar Scotland