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Making Recovery Real - World of work: A discussion
Date recorded: 26 February 2009
Paid employment has the potential to both help and hinder recovery. With reforms to the welfare system paid work is a hot topic and a source of some anxiety. This session promoted discussion and debate and consider how best to help people access and maintain paid work. It features presentations from:
  • Syliva Collumb, Mental Health Partnership (Greater Glasgow and Clyde)
  • Chris White, SAMH

Discussion by Sylvia Collumb
Sylvia Collumb, Mental Health Partnership (Greater Glasgow and Clyde)
This session provides an overview of work in progress in Glasgow to develop a Mental Health/Recovery Employability Pathway process aimed at building capacity and partnerships with mental health services, service users and mainstream employability providers.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Sylvia Collumb - A discussion (20.43 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Sylvia Collumb - A discussion (42.29 kB)
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Can a return to work make recovery real? A personal perspective on returning to work
Chris White, SAMH
This session explores one person’s experience of becoming unwell and their recovery journey back to full-time work. Looking at some of the complex issues that needed to be addressed and whether the current Welfare Reforms would make that journey easier or more difficult.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Chris White - Can a return to work make recovery real? (26.9 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Chris White - Can a return to work make recovery real? (70.53 kB)