Community Rehabilitation When people heard that I was being supported by the Community Rehabilitation Service their immediate thought was often… more
My experience of the Community Rehabilitation Service
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Community Rehabilitation When people heard that I was being supported by the Community Rehabilitation Service their immediate thought was often… more
Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more
Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more
Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more
On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more
When looking at the holes in support systems we are forced to reconcile with the fact that although lived experience… more
Blog by Make Space Collective, April 2021 Facilitating brave conversations online Make Space is a user-led collective. We create spaces for… more
Let me die, before I am killed – a black male schizophrenic plea in relation to the Mental Health Act… more
I am very proud to have been part of the work which the ‘Principled Way of Working, Peer Support in… more
This film was shot in 2016 just after the repossession of my house. I was feeling really ill with PTSD… more
A Peer Support Worker Competence Framework should surely be led by people who work within this discipline, as all other disciplines working within mental health…. more
Content warning: abuse We all have a ‘Body, mind and Soul’ we feel the vibrations affecting our physical senses, thoughts,… more