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Linsey from LATNEM mental heath peer support for mums & birthing people, talks about the vital contribution peer support makes to suicide prevention.
“Feedback we’ve had has been really powerful. One of our mums said thank you for keeping me alive"
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#InternationalWomensDay
A list of headings from the Peer Support in Scotland: Insight Report 1 to showcase the new report reading function on our website. Graphic also features the front cover of this report.
#TryAToolTuesday
📚 It can be hard work reading long documents online, so we've added a new tool to our website which allows you to read our reports in bitesize chunks!
We're testing this with Peer Support in Scotland: Insight Report 1.
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#PeerSupportScot
📍New blog! Exploring four key components of peer support
Peer support is increasingly recognised as a vital part of Scotland’s mental health landscape. As understanding grows, so does the need for clarity about what peer support is, & what makes it effective.
scottishrecovery.net/new-blog-exp...
#FilmFriday
Aled Bartley-Jones, Manager (Mental Health & Substance Use) at DVVA explains how they're overcoming the challenges of developing peer worker roles.
"Having these frameworks will support organisations to be able to.. recruit into peer roles, to sustain peer roles."
#PeerSupportScot
📌Funding: Ethnic Minority Development Fund
For ethnic minority-led 3rd-sector organisations in Scotland. Apply for a min of £500 to a max of £15K for a project idea.
CEMVO Scotland hosting 3 support sessions, 10:00-12:00 online on 25 Mar, 13 Apr & 12 May.
cemvoscotland.org.uk/capacity-bui...
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📰 ICYMI our March newsletter shares our latest free Creating Hope with Peer Support Practice Guide: Exploring Safety & Risk & booking opens for our Let's Evaluate Peer Support Roadshow!
More events & opportunities 👉 bit.ly/MarchNews2026
#PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #Recovery
📆 Want to build your skills & confidence in developing supportive peer relationships with people affected by suicide?
We've a few places left at our Creating Hope with Peer Support in Angus workshop on 26 March, in partnership with
@penumbra-scot.bsky.social
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To mark this year’s Self-Harm Awareness Day on Sunday, 1 March, Tina Koenig of @shnscotland.bsky.social - Scotland’s national self-harm support service - writes on the value of lived experience and one-to-one support.
#Evaluation need not be about targets or performance dashboards, but about language, confidence and finally having a way to describe what you already know works, writes Iona Mactaggart of @scotrecoverynet.bsky.social in this month’s TFN magazine - which is available at: buff.ly/ylJ2Tx7
Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care & Mental Wellbeing highlighting the vital role of peer support & lived experience in suicide prevention.
Full film from our national event to be released later this week in our newsletter.
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#PeerSupportScot
A photograph from TFN Magazine of people sitting around tables discussing evaluation. A title above the photograph reads" Proving it: building peer support evaluation".
At The Gathering 2026 peer support organisations came together to speak about evaluation. Not about targets or performance dashboards, but about language, confidence & finally having a way to describe what they already know works.
More in this TFN feature (page 28)
tfn.scot/magazine/feb...
📆Valuing Different Lived Experience Narratives
25 Feb, 16:00- 17:30, The Harvest Centre, Elgin
Join Moray Peer Support Community of Practice to explore the richness & diversity of lived experience within peer support.
www.tickettailor.com/events/moray...
#PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #Recovery
It was great to come together w/ so many people interested in peer support evaluation @scvo.scot The Gathering last week.
"(My highlight was) seeing the similarities between the peer support I run & other peoples to help give me the language to describe the value of what I do."
#PeerSupportScot
The Big Meet Up
21 March
Over 5 years United to Prevent Suicide has grown into a community of +4,000 people across Scotland, united by the belief that together, we can prevent suicide.
It's time to meet, connect, & create something that belongs to all of us.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-big-me...
Lisa smiling and standing with a social media board that says "I Love Peer Support". The board has a love heart in the centre of a circle on it and different coloured dots across it.
Can everyone give a HUGE welcome to Lisa Moynes our new Communications Officer 🥳
"I'm really happy to be starting my new Communications Officer role. I’m looking forward to helping share the amazing work around recovery, lived experience & peer support."
A panel of four people sitting at a long table with a large screen behind them which features the Bipolar Scotland logo.
A group of session participants sitting at a roundtable sharing views.
Groups of session participants sitting at roundtables sharing views.
Three session participants holding a social media banner which reads '#ILovePeerSupport'.
📷 Here's a few snaps from our 'Measuring what matters: a co-design approach to peer support evaluation' session at @scvo.scot's The Gathering yesterday.
"Was the perfect start to the day learned a lot"
#EssentialSector #PeerSupportScot
A screenshot from a web page outlining titles of 'chapters' from Peer Support in Scotland: Insight Report 1. The report cover sits in the bottom righthand corner of the image.
You can now read our new Insight Report: Peer Support in Scotland in bitesize chunks!
Take a mosey over to our new webpage where you can choose which 'chapters' you want to engage with.
You'll also find PDF & flipbook versions.
scottishrecovery.net/insight-repo...
#PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth
Icons of 3 people representing peer support. One person has a love heart on them. A lightbulb shines above the group.
Looking forward to @scvo.scot #TheGathering2026
Our 'Measuring what matters: a co-design approach to peer support evaluation' session demonstrates an alternative way to evaluate that moves beyond conventional metrics & honours the relational, values-based nature of peer support.
#EssentialSector
A blue background with the text Scotland's Mental Health Hustings written on it. Also features the Scotland's Mental Health Partnership (SMHP) logo.
#TimeToTalkDay
Today is all about connection but as we look ahead to the election, it’s also a moment to use our voices & ask the big questions about the future of mental health in Scotland.
🗳️ Join the conversation at SMHP hustings on 9 March, 13:00–14:30.
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There's a handful of places left at our free #PeerConnects webinar this week.
Embedding Peer Support into Clinical Mental Health Services 5 Feb, 10:00 -11:00.
60 minutes of ideas & inspiration to kickstart your day!
peersupportinservices.eventbrite.co.uk
#MentalHealth #Recovery #PeerSupportScot
Exciting to see construction work underway for @samhscotland.bsky.social The Nook in #Aberdeen.
Find out more about this new walk-in hub where anyone can access stigma-free mental health support in this @thirdforcenews.bsky.social piece.
tfn.scot/news/constru...
#MentalHealth #Recovery
#FilmFriday
As Scottish Government & COSLA publish the 2nd #CreatingHopeTogether Action Plan, this film shares experiences of The Hive Kirkcaldy, LATNEM, & Men United.
Together they demonstrate the vital contribution peer support makes to suicide prevention in Scotland.
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Scotland’s mental health workforce needs a rethink
SCOTLAND is struggling to staff a mental health system that meets demand. The answer isn’t only about more clinicians but about broadening how we define the workforce, & the type of support people can access.
Read more👉 bit.ly/4tniGMf
🧩Peer Support in Scotland: Insight Report 1
Our new report for a fundamental shift away from ‘more of the same’ towards a more people-led, relational & human approach to mental health support, one that places lived experience at the heart of the system.
scottishrecovery.net/resources/pe...
📰Our February newsletter comes out later this week w/ info on:
- Dates for our Let's Evaluate Peer Support Roadshow!
- Scotland's Mental Health Partnership Hustings: 9 March
- Free events
& more!
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TFN is @scvo.scot's magazine for the #VoluntarySector
In this month’s magazine, TFN rounds up sector responses to the #ScottishBudget with comment from
@alliancescot.bsky.social
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
@childrenfirst.bsky.social
and many others...
Read it all here: buff.ly/FBWqGT5
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Drawing on their lived & professional experience, they’ll share practical insights into how their service is integrating peer approaches day to day, learning emerging from this work, & the positive impact it's having.
60 minutes of ideas & inspiration!
peersupportinservices.eventbrite.co.uk
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🧩Free webinar: Embedding Peer Support into Clinical Mental Health Services - 5 Feb, 10:00 -11:00.
Join us to hear from Kathryn Thompson, Peer Recovery Worker with Community Mental Health Team East, NHS Tayside, & Lucy Dill, Peer Worker in East Dunbartonshire HSCP / NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.. 1/2
A photo of two event participants hi-fiving. Another participant smiles in the background. Text over the photo says "We have come a long way...but I feel there is much room for expansion in our field of expertise."
New Insight Report - Peer Support in Scotland - shares evidence supporting the call for a recovery focused mental health system powered by lived experience & strengthened by peer support.
Help us share the findings far & wide!
Pdf bit.ly/PeerSupportI...
Flipbook heyzine.com/flip-book/50...
A picture of two people at SCVO: The Gathering. Text says 'SCVO the Gathering 2026. 10 & 11 February | EICC, Edinburgh. Booking now open!'
We're super excited for our session @scvo.scot #TheGathering2026
Measuring what matters: a co-design approach to peer support evaluation is sold out but we're announcing more dates as part of our Let's Evaluate Peer Support Roadshow soon🎉
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