What is peer support?

Peer support is when people use their own lived experiences to help each other.

Types of Peer Support

• Bring together people with shared experiences to support each other
  
• Provide a space where you feel accepted and understood
  
• Treat everyone’s experiences as being equally important
  
• The Peer Support worker can help and support you to:
  
• Help you to open up about what you are feeling and experiencing
  
• Introduce you to ideas and approaches that others have found helpful
  
• Reassure you that you’re not alone in how you are feeling
  
• Find it reassuring that you have been understood, accepted on the bases of
  
• shared understanding.
  
• You are getting support to rebuild your life
  
• Re-connect with community services again.
  
• Give you a sense of belonging by connecting with others
  
• Encourage you to value your strengths
  
• Build your self-esteem and confidence
  
• Help you you feel more hopeful about the future.

We currently have a Peer Support Worker at the Bethlem Royal Hospital on Westways Rehab Unit. Please do go and chat to them.

For more details Visit: https://www.mindincroydon.org.uk/peer-support-in-reach-service/

Email: admin@mindincroydon.org.uk

Call: 020 8668 2210