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The Mental Health Recovery Network for Manchester

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This week I met with John Butler, the mental health development worker for Macc. John is helping to co-ordinate a new initiative called The Mental Health Recovery Network for Manchester  - more details below. They are looking for organisations and individuals to join, especially those who are mental health carers or people with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

The Recovery Network is inviting all people with an interest in Mental Health services in Manchester to step outside of the current system into a safe space which is owned equally by everyone. The aim is to bring people from all sides of mental health together to improve services in Manchester and ultimately give people a better chance of recovery. The Recovery Network has already held its first meeting and you can download a copy of the meeting report, as well as more information about the Network and how to join, on the Manchester Community Central website. It is very much in the early stages and if you read the report you’ll see that a very open approach is being taken to what the concept of recovery is, based on people’s views and experiences in Manchester.

The next meeting of the Network is on: Thursday 27 June 2013 – more details will be available soon on the website.

Our parent charity Rethink Mental Illness have a whole range of information about recovery available online. It is very much a personal journey and the many people who do go on a journey of recovery show that a mental health diagnosis does not mean 'the end'.

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