What is Peer Support?
Peer support workers play a vital role in mental health advocacy, drawing upon their own experiences to provide empathetic support to individuals and families. Through emotional support, social interaction, and practical assistance, they empower others on their journey towards well-being and recovery.
Valuing everyone’s experience and treating everyone equally.
Accessing peer support can help in many ways including;
- Peer support workers have experience with their own strategies that they can share with individuals
- Improves well-being
- Better self-esteem, confidence and social skills
- Support individuals to develop goals and support recovery
- Increased knowledge of mental health conditions and recovery
- Develop personal recovery plans
- Supports engagement in activities
- Supports engagement in group activities
- Larger support networks
- Focusing on and building a person’s strengths and their ability to make use of the resources available to them
- Support to navigate systems and waiting lists
- Ease feelings of isolation
You’ve invited…
Are you ready to turn your lived experiences into meaningful support for others?
Cup-O-T invites you to embark on a transformative journey through our 10-week Peer Support Worker Training. Between July 2024 and March 2025, we will be supporting 60 individuals to achieve their Peer Support Worker qualification, designed to empower individuals with a passion for mental health advocacy. This comprehensive program is based on the Competence Framework by Health Education England.
Your training includes:
- 10 full training days (60 hours of in person or online training)
- Course manual and workbook- printed and electronic versions
- Access to our online learning portal with additional materials and interactive tasks
- Individual and group mentoring throughout the training from our experienced team
- Support from our training team to set goals for your next steps following the training
- Buddy groups to enhance learning and support
- Training certification
- Access to our Peer Support Worker network group after the course is completed.
Don’t just take our word for how beneficial this course is!
“A learning journey – it was a brilliant learning journey into the peer support role and also myself”
“Valuable content – the content of the training was clear and concise. Delivered in a way that will allow us to use it effectively in future roles”
“Engaging trainer – Catherine was excellent; every week the content was engaging and relevant”
If you’d like to find out more, download our training brochure here
If you have lived experience of receiving mental health support and now want to support others, we’d love to hear from you:
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