The Brook RED Centre

Consumer operated
€ Four of the Seven Board members identify as having
experienced a mental illness.

‹ Constitutionally Ordinary Members are defined:

Peer/Consumer members, people who identify as having or
having had a personal experience of a mental health
concern or illness or has used mental health services for
their own need.

€ All staff identify as having experienced a mental illness.

€ A Peer representative group known as Think Tank has been

developed that provides feedback in regards to programs
offered, strategic planning, policy and future direction of
the organisation
 Intentional Peer Support
‹ (Adapted from Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach - Shery Mead 2005
‹ What is Peer Support
‹ Peer Support is about connecting with someone in a way that
contributes to both people learning and growing.
‹ It is not about being a paid friend or taking care of someone and
definitely not about providing treatment.
‹ Peer Support
‹ Is about giving and receiving,
‹ Is not based on psychiatric models or diagnoses,
‹ Encourages one another to re-evaluate how we’ve come to know
what we know,
‹ Create relationships that make it ok to not just be in peer
relationships, but to use them to take a bigger look at how we
have learned to operate in the world,
‹ Is intentional.
 Tasks of Peer Support
‹ Task 1 – Connection
The core of Peer support
‹ Task 2 – Worldview

Helping each other understand how we have come

to know what we know
‹ Task 3 – Mutual Responsibility

Re- defining help as a co-learning and growing

process.
‹ Task 4 –Moving Toward

Helping each other move towards what we want

instead of what we don’t want.
 At The Brook RED Centre
‹ All groups are facilitated and Co facilitated by Peer Support
Workers.

‹ Person Focused not diagnosis focused.

‹ People participating in groups and activities determine

program content

‹ People accessing the centre can elect to have One on One

Peer Support and can select a Peer Support worker.
 Workforce Development

€ All staff engage in 5 Day Intention Peer Support training.

€ All team are actively encourage to out in to practice IPS

within the team and the peer community

€ All staff participate in weekly co supervision.

€ Experienced members of the Peer Support Team have

engaged in facilitators training and deliver training
internally.

€ Mentoring

€ Flexibility in work hours.

 Collecting Evidence
Tools
Mental Health Statistical Improvement Project.
Domains:
– General satisfaction
– Service Accessibility
– Outcomes
– Functioning
– Social connectedness
Group & Individual Interviews

Statistical analysis
Statistical Program for Social Sciences