Opportunities for Involvement in National Developments in Mental Health
If you have had personal experience of mental distress
and have been supported with your employment or housing aspirations by mental
health or support services, we would like to hear from you!
This may be as a result of self determination, peer
support, community or statutory service support, self-directed support, direct
payments, personal and individual budgets, health budgets or you may provide
friends/family carer support to somebody who has been helped to achieve
positive housing and/or employment outcomes. We are looking at the innovative
and different ways people have secured homes and jobs and what impact they have
had or are having on people's housing and/or employment pathways and training
opportunities?
National
Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU) provides national support for
implementing mental health policy to improve mental health and mental health
services funded by the Department of Health and NHS. They need the whole of
their work to involve people who have a range of mental health experiences and
the friends-and-family who support them, so the best possible results can be
achieved for all concerned. The National Involvement Project (NIP) is a
coalition of mental health organisations (above) working with NMHDU to involve
service users and carers in all aspects of their work.
SUBMISSION DATE: Up to Monday 1st November
2010
If interested: Please download a copy of the case study project description, application and equal opportunities forms