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Making Recovery Real - Service user movement: Involvement into leadership
Date recorded: 26 February 2009
This session offered an opportunity to discuss how personal experience of using services can help to realise change in service development and provision in Scotland. It features presentations from:
  • Kirsten Maclean and Jim McGill, CAPS
  • Shaun McNeil, Advocacy Matters / VOX; and Shona McNeil, Pure Mental
  • Ron Coleman, Working to Recovery

Oor Mad History: Reclaiming our history, reclaiming power
Kirsten Maclean, CAPS
Jim McGill, CAPS
This presentation offers background information on this community history project, which involves researching and recording the history of the Lothian service user movement. The presentation also highlights the findings so far.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Kirsten Maclean and Jim McGill - Oor Mad History (23.04 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Kirsten Maclean - Oor Mad History (1.25 MB)
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“Meaningful service user involvement”
Shaun McNeil, Advocacy Matters / VOX
Shona McNeil, Pure Mental
This presentation examines some of the barriers which can hinder meaningful service user involvement and offers suggestions and ideas for improvement.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Shaun and Shona McNeil - Meaningful service user involvement (18.49 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Shaun and Shona McNeil - Meaningful service user involvement (310.88 kB)
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Leadership: Rhetoric or reality in Scotland?
Ron Coleman, Working to Recovery
The development of effective leadership of consumers will lead to consumer run services. In this presentation Ron argues that services can only become effective when they are removed from the constraints of the statutory and voluntary sector, so that they are not only consumer run and led but also consumer owned.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Ron Coleman - Leadership: Rhetoric or reality in Scotland? (21.15 MB)