Newcastle Recovery College

ABOUT

Our aims are to:

• Provide a peer led, peer delivered education and support service where people can learn from each other’s insights, skills and lived experience.

• Nurture a community of warriors and survivors towards a sense of belonging and acceptance for who, what and how they are.

• Enable connection and friendship

• Provide opportunities that allow students to aspire to be their best selves.

• Identify and recognise their innate strengths and talents, and their ability to help others.

• Promote recovery through peer led education and other peer led activities.

• Provide a focus for peer leadership, peer support and recovery orientated practice.

• Be directed by people who use (or have used) mental health services.

• Enable collaboration between mental health service providers and organisations that support these aims.