Newcastle Recovery College
ABOUT
Our aims are to:
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Provide a peer led, peer delivered education and support service where people can learn from each other’s insights, skills and lived experience.
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Nurture a community of warriors and survivors towards a sense of belonging and acceptance for who, what and how they are.
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Enable connection and friendship
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Provide opportunities that allow students to aspire to be their best selves.
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Identify and recognise their innate strengths and talents, and their ability to help others.
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Promote recovery through peer led education and other peer led activities.
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Provide a focus for peer leadership, peer support and recovery orientated practice.
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Be directed by people who use (or have used) mental health services.
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Enable collaboration between mental health service providers and organisations that support these aims.