This blog details the publication of a guide we have co-developed alongside Russell Webster and a team of experts by experience for best supporting people with lived experience who use their lived experience in volunteering roles.
This best practice document aims to ensure that organisations provide good quality support to peer volunteers. Discussing the key topics from peer volunteers’ perspective, it offers a set of principles that will guide organisations in developing the most appropriate support structures.
Russell Webster in partnership with the Revolving Doors Agency, conducted an online survey into the experiences of service users who go on to volunteer as peer mentors or any other role with helping services.
A lot more than a methodology, peer research involves a much more radical questioning of long-held beliefs about research. These include who has the power to decide who can be a researcher, what counts as research, and what is researched and how.
The purpose of this guide is to enable commissioners and providers to plan for, implement and embed peer support within their Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services.
This review looks at Liaison and Diversion peer support pathfinder sites in Birmingham & Solihull and Wiltshire. It evaluates peer support from the point of view of service users and peer supporters and analyses the social value return on investment.
On 3rd October myself and another Lived Experience Team member presented the recent progress on the liaison and diversion peer support model which the team has been developing over the last few months to the national Liaison and Diversion Programme Board.
Peer researcher Lisa comments on some of the themes of our recent literature review on peer research: such as the personal benefits to peer researchers, breaking down boundaries between professionals and service users; and the importance of using peer research to make change.
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