Peer Support

Often the most powerful form of support is citizens just supporting each other to be stronger and more connected.

Film: 14.11.24 Addiction Glyn Butcher shares his personal reflections, both his understanding and his experience of addiction.
Film: 19.09.24 The Mental Health System Glyn Butcher shares a personal reflection on our mental health systems and how we might change them.
Paper: 10.09.24 Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Story: 11.01.24 People Focused Group: “Keep Your Hands Off Peer Support” Peer support is an approach to mutual support led by people with lived experience.
Film: 26.08.23 The Value of Peer Support Peer support is one of the best ways to liberate the potential for citizens to change the world for the better.
Article: 20.01.23 How We 'Deliver' Peer Support The People Focused Group empowers people to take back control and then to make their own life choices.
Article: 04.11.22 Building the Right Support... Why we are failing to provide the right support to people and what we can do to fix it.
Webinar: 27.09.22 Peer Support Around the World Peer support is a transformative force for social change with many different forms.
Article: 23.06.22 My Mental Health Glyn explains how he manages the voices he hears and how, with help from his peers, he's turned his life around.
Article: 28.03.22 Safe Space Safe Space is the first ever Peer-Led Crisis Service and it's run by the People Focused Group (PFG) Doncaster.
Story: 07.03.22 Molly's Poem Everyone in life is dealt a different card. Some have life easy, some have it hard.
Story: 07.03.22 We Are Not Service Users People should not be defined by the services they use, services should not treat people as their property.
Story: 25.01.22 A Dark Childhood Claire Louise hopes her writing will help others reach out and get help.
Article: 02.12.21 Speaking Out Self-advocacy becomes much easier when we have the support of friends, family and peers.
Paper: 14.07.21 Growing Peer Support A report on peer-led crisis support in mental health services focusing on the work of PFG Doncaster.
Webinar: 03.03.21 DCWW England: PFG the Home of Peer Support Members of the People Focused Group (PFG) in Doncaster explain what peer support truly means.
Article: 14.01.21 The Ideal of Citizenship Simon Duffy gave this talk to the LAC Network and argues that citizenship is the ideal the world needs today.
Training: 12.01.21 Your Options Understood Your Options Understood (Y.O.U) have launched a new interactive e-learning platform.
Webinar: 16.07.20 DCWW Italy: Connecting Communities Kara Bobowski is a social co-operative which works to include disabled people and other groups needing support in the…
Story: 23.05.20 I am More than My Mental Health Poems in memory of Kes, a wonderful young man who died before his time, but who brought joy into the lives of many.
Webinar: 28.04.20 DCWW Lithuania: COVID-19 Challenge What is the mission of a social worker in this situation? Jaunuolių dienos centras (JDC) in Lithuania share inspiring…
Inspiration: 29.06.18 Kamloops Self-Advocate Newsletter Krystian Shaw is an inspiring person with a learning disability. Here he explains the work he is doing for inclusion and…
Slide: 15.12.15 Peer Support meets Community Development This presentation shares the inspiring work of the People Focused Group Doncaster (PFG) in their local community.
Film: 18.11.14 Peer Support Simon Duffy talks about one of the Centre's Fellows, Kelly Hicks and the work of the People Focused Group (PFG) in…
Paper: 18.07.13 Whose Community Is It Anyway? Written by Simon Duffy this paper suggests it's time to re-think commissioning and work with communities in a real…
Paper: 24.02.13 Travelling Hopefully Simon Duffy describes international best practice in self-directed support and personal budgets.
Paper: 31.05.12 Peer Power Simon Duffy explores the inspirational work of the Personalisation Forum Group and its efforts to improve their own…
Article: 13.05.12 West Lancashire Peer Support Les Scaife describes how the West Lancashire Peer Support Group was born and the work it continues to do.
Inspiration: 27.02.12 Help & Connect Model Skills for People are providing brokerage by combining the best of their supports in a cost-effective and empowering…
Paper: 01.02.12 Support Buddies - Peer Support Works The Personalisation Forum Group, winners of the Great British Care Awards People First Category, have published an…
Project: 04.01.12 Personalisation in Mental Health Transforming the delivery of mental health services.
Paper: 15.11.11 Lives Unlimited: An evaluation of recent peer support projects - and what next? An evaluation of peer support project run by Lives Unlimited reinforces the value of building on lived experience and…
Paper: 19.09.11 Peer Support How to promote peer support as an element of community brokerage and the new script for social work.
Paper: 01.12.10 Manifesto of the Personalisation Forum Group This manifesto sets out the values, goals and intentions of the Personalisation Forum Group - a group of people who live…