Having developed and for several years managed a unique service user involvement group within Fareham & Gosport's adult mental health community, I have been very pleased in recent weeks to have been offered opportunities to transfer these skills and experience to the development of service user initiatives within Edinburgh's employability sector.
This morning, I attended a meeting - and gave a short presentation about my journey, which I've entitled, Institution to Employment, within a large gathering of (mostly) voluntary sector agencies. The feedback and support I received was very positive indeed - and without too much effort, I succeeded in getting two major items on the agenda, as well as making a significant impression for the need for a complete overhaul of the values, beliefs and practices widely held within the Scottish employability sector, in relation to service users and service user involvement!
Tomorrow, I am due to co-present at another, much larger conference, which will include a number of statutory sector agents and service commissioners. As a number of the people present today will also be there, it seems likely that even greater weight could be added to my proposals - which incidentally, have already attracted suggested funding resources.
So I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself right now!!
1 comment:
Sounds good, hope it goes well tomorrow. John.
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