Peer Forum

Peer workers use their own lived experience of mental health issues in an intentional way to benefit others. Peer work can be paid or voluntary. At CAPS, peer volunteers take part in collective advocacy projects where they share their lived experience to raise and challenge issues and work to bring about change. Peer workers and volunteers can bring their experiences to the Forum and our role is to help them find ways to progress the issues that are important to them in their day-to-day roles. As an Independent Advocacy organisation we are ideally suited to facilitate the Peer Forum. If you have your own lived experience of mental health issues you could get involved with us as a group member. You might want to share your experiences as part of our range of awareness raising sessions to universities, colleges and schools, or our public mental health sessions aimed at increasing people’s understanding, delivered through our Education As Advocacy project.