Our commitment to you, who have experienced the challenges of Mental Health, Addiction, Autism, and Acquired Brain Injury is to purposely and positively influence the outcomes that contribute to your quality of life, and to assist this by providing access to a qualified lived experience workforce.
PETERR recognise and value the support from others who have had a lived experience. We have always advocated that it brings something different to what is found in other professional support relationships and entrenched responses to mental health. Lived Experience Worker's are not intended to replace any existing mental health services or roles, but rather are an opportunity to enrich the provision of mental health services through the direct participation and expertise that people with personal experience of mental health can bring to the recovery process. |
We believe the best way to achieve this is by engaging lived experience professionals as our workforce. Endorsing peer worker roles by valuing and validating the lived experience role with other learned knowledge.
PETERR achieve this by recruiting lived experience workers who have complete training and education that enhance personal capacity. All of our workers have participated in required training to be accepted as part of PETERR, this also includes access to continuous learning opportunities, supervision and other resources. |
Peer,
- Lived Experience Worker, sharing knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Lived Experience Worker, sharing knowledge, skills and abilities:
Purpose
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Principles of Practice
Value |
Definition |
Self-determination |
Being aware of power imbalances and their effects, knowing and respecting Human rights, facilitating personal agency encouraging autonomy. |
Connection |
Lived/common experience is used to make connection in the relationship. Connection is the basis on which trust, and meaningful, effective learning is possible. |
Mutuality |
Both people learn, grow and are challenged through the relationship. Mutuality means being in relation with another person, developing skill and expertise while staying present and aware of our own reactions, viewpoints, needs, and assumptions. |
Lived experience as expertise |
“We are experts by experience”— people who have lived with mental health conditions, people who've been suicidal, people who have experienced significant trauma, people who are carers of those directly impacted by the life interruptions from this thing society names as mental illness understanding the profound impact on social, emotional, and physical wellbeing in a holistic framework. This is just as valuable and valid as other forms of support as it provides a unique perspective and platform in the provision of scaffolding that encourages others to explore the possibilities of their life. |
Responsibility |
We are not responsible for the other person, we are responsible for our own thoughts, feelings, and actions. We are considerate and we share responsibility for the relationship. We acknowledge and respect everyone’s boundaries and abilities. |
Authenticity |
We are honest in relating with one another and act from our fundamentally shared humanity. |
Transparency |
Availability of full information required for collaboration, cooperation,and decision making, without hidden agendas or other motives. |
Hope |
Having a reasonable expectation of positive outcomes for each other. |
Self-Advocacy |
To encourage and support the development of skills in practice and participation in various forms of self-advocacy. |
World View |
Respects and explores varying world-views with the understanding that each person has various influences determining the way in which they see and experience their world. |
Accountability |
Promotes and demonstrates personal and shared accountability within the relationship. |
Supervision |
Is an essential part of our grounding, an opportunity to openly engage in critically reflection as part of our ethical and practice progress. Education is not a product it is a process of shared learning, of discovery, supervision nurtures this process. |