The YOU Programme is for people with a range of mental ill-health issues and is typically commissioned by one or more of the following:
- NHS Mental Health Providers
- Clinical Commissioning Groups
- Local Authorities
- Public Health departments
The YOU Programme is delivered by people who have experienced, or continue to experience mental ill-health challenges, they are know as peer facilitators. The YOU Programme is delivered in a supportive and relaxed environment, where we can share our personal journeys and express our thoughts using empathy rather than sympathy.
The programme, facilitated by peers, provides an arena for open and frank discussion with learning about different recovery pathways &techniques, self-support and effective health management plans, offering a different perspective to the traditional medical model.
It offers individuals the opportunity to meet new people, make friends and develop new skills – mix this with a large dose of laughter and entertainment and the outcome is amazing!
Importantly, we have a successful track record of delivering empirically measured outcomes; our programmes can be measured using accepted tools such as:
- GAD7
- PHQ9
- WEMWBS questionnaires.
Our Peer Support Services are delivered solely by peers. All of our professionally trained Course Facilitators have themselves had direct experience of Mental Health issues.
We leave behind a working Peer Support Network for the participants of each iteration or our programme and a connection of those individual Peer Support Networks to further Peer Support Networks by location, region and or shared interest whilst our approach uniquely educates and empowers participants with the tools, techniques and background to successfully organise, manage and participate in their own Peer Support Network.