Starting back in 2011, The Service User Academia Symposium brings service users together with their counterparts and allies in academia. The broad aim is to explore the challenges of –and opportunities for – creating and maintaining service user leadership and co-production in mental health and addiction scholarship, research, education, programs and policy.The Service User Academia mini Symposium welcomes anyone involved with, interested in, or aspiring to create co-produced and/or service user-led projects or programmes in mental health and addiction.
Important area – Great to keep building a lived experience evidence base but be a plus to extend that across both health care areas AND those sectors that impact of health and recovery ie can maintain, enhance or undo health and recovery!
Three good ones to chalk for futures..
Employment
Law administration
Education
Physical Health- leisure, sport, recreation sectors
Unionism
Others??
It’s not just recovery to “exist” but recovery to exceed n thrive- why not!!