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FEATURES
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NEWS FOCUS
Paul Anders shares some key findings from, and the thinking behind, the Recovery
Partnership’s
State of the sector 2013
report.
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FLYING THE FLAG
Make It Happen!
’s opening session heard from representatives of three service user-
driven organisations.
10 FACING THE CHALLENGE
The focus of the morning’s panel discussion was the ‘challenges to making it happen’.
12 GETTING IT IN PERSPECTIVE
Delegates at the afternoon’s opening session heard a range of personal viewpoints
from six very different speakers.
14 BUILD ON BELIEF
The day’s final session heard from Tim Sampey of Build on Belief. He shares invaluable
learning points from running an independent service user organisation.
16 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT
Service user group B3’s name stands for ‘be heard, be motivated, be free’. David Gilliver
hears from project manager Ossie Yemoh about the importance of autonomy.
REGULARS
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NEWS ROUND-UP
: Improved support needed for older people • A third of services report funding
decrease • Government accepts ACMD’s ketamine recommendation • Scottish alcohol-related deaths
fall nearly 40 per cent in a decade • News in brief.
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GOOD PRACTICE EXCHANGE
:
GrahamMarshall shares how Spitalfields Crypt Trust’s social
enterprises have helped service users build the confidence to get back to work.
20 SOAPBOX:
Whatever’s happened to true user activism, asks Daren Garratt.
21 LETTERS
:
Showme the cure; Give us a clue; Have a star.
21 MEDIA SAVVY:
Who’s been saying what..?
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Strength in numbers
Taking inspiration for the battles ahead
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The new
State of the sector
report
confirms that treatment is just one of the things that contributes to a
successful outcome, the rest being improved health, a job, somewhere to live and friends (page 6). Add to that
creative fulfillment, demonstrated by this month’s ‘Practice Exchange’ (page 7), where Spitalfields Crypt Trusts’
service users said that one of the hardest things in their early days of recovery was filling the time once the drink
and drugs were gone. Their experience of building a social enterprise project together has been transformational.
Peer support was further demonstrated at our
Make It Happen!
conference last month, when more than 600
delegates came together in Birmingham. Sophie Strachan shared the experience of offering friendship and
support to people with HIV; Tim Sampey urged service users to believe in their capacity to run an organisation
independently; David Lawson advised on drawing strength from user involvement, and Lester Morse took us on
his journey from the soup kitchen to setting up a treatment centre. Alongside the inspiration was the reality of how
much needed to be done on fair and adequate prescribing, treatment and facilities, naloxone distribution, and
proportionate funding, particularly for alcohol treatment. With plenty to do and nothing to be complacent about, it
was powerful to see a room full of people prepared to make change happen.