Drive

DRIVE Consumer Direction Counties Manukau is a network that represents the interests of people in the Counties Manukau region who experience mental distress and/or addiction. We know what it’s like to be challenged – and the path to recovery. They are concerned with personal development, with the development of the peer service workforce, and with developing the mental health and addiction sector in Counties Manukau. DRIVE works to enhance the voice of consumers in Counties Manukau. You may wish to be involved through:

• Attending our hui and other activities
• Attending a peer support group
• Volunteering to support our work
• Being a guest contributor to DRIVE Bloggable online blog
• Submitting to DRIVE ArtSPACE
• Being elected to our advisory group
• Proposing an activity or project to help meet the needs of mental health and addiction consumers in Counties Manukau

 

Organisation

Address: 28C Lambie Drive, Manukau 2241

Country: New Zealand

Postal Address: PO Box 97453 Manukau 2241

Email: office@drivedirection.org.nz

Independent Mental Health Network (IMHN)

The Independent Mental Health Network (IMHN) is a membership-led organisation that represents a diverse community of past, current and future users of mental health services, as well as those with lived experience of mental health. By working together, they believe that we can be a force for positive change in the way that mental health is treated, perceived, and recognised. Their branches lead on work to improve local mental health services, campaign for reforms and changes to the negative ways that mental health problems can be viewed, and act as a local voice for those with a diverse range of lived experience.

 

Organisation

Lived Experience Network

The Lived Experience Network is an international network with a shared interest in patient & public involvement (PPI) in higher education, who aim to develop a critical alliance of people with lived experiences, students and academics for the purpose of enhancing and improving practitioner education, patient and carer experience and associated research in health and social care. Their purpose is to:

• Enhance student learning and practitioner education through the sharing of best practice, innovation and resources
• Support, develop and facilitate PPI through narrative, voices, and experiences, in health and social care education.
• Support, prepare and empower people to become involved in student learning.
• Showcase and celebrate our achievements.
• Informing national practice and policy, through people who use services, informing people who work and will work within services
• Providing aspirational and inspirational education.
• Supporting PPI in Higher Education
• Form an alliance between practitioners, patients & carers and students.

 

Organisation

Country: United Kingdom

Mental Health Client Action Network of Santa Cruz

The Mental Health Client Action Network of Santa Cruz County is a peer-run organization dedicated to providing mutual support and networking, to having a voice in all matters which affect us, to creating programs controlled by peers, to advocating for the rights to choose our own life paths, to educating the public from our own perspective, and to working to eradicate treatment disparities and confronting discrimination. 
MHCAN provides a place of connection in the tumult of life. So come, put aside the cares of the week and find yourself in the presence of folks who really care.

 

Organisation

Address: 1051 Cayuga Street Santa Cruz CA 95062

Country: United States of America

Email: mail@mhcan.org