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Service User Forums
These are organisations that are usually run and supported by people who have had personal experience of using mental health services. They are there to support service users. They provide support for people to meet other users. They also support people to attend meetings with statutory organisations that provide mental health services. This is empowering people to have a say in how mental health services are delivered. It gives statutory organisations the opportunity to listen to the experts, who have used their services, about what improvements and changes they feel need to be made to aid people’s recovery and keep people well.Local User groups
Canterbury & District Forum for Mental HealthAn independent registered charity which aims to give a voice to users of mental health services; To make community care work; helping to shape mental health services into as comprehensive and socially useful a service as possible; and to educate the public in, and promote awareness of, mental health problems.
location:
34 Military Road, Canterbury,
Kent
, CT1 1LT
contact: Mark Kilbey (Co-Ordinator)
tel: 01227 788211
East Kent User Forum: Dover, Deal, Ashford, Shepway and Thanet
Includes
- General User Forums where users can discuss any issue relating to their mental health services
- Speaker forums where workers from different organisations speak on certain issues
- Book club
- Young Peoples’ Group 18-25 yrs
- Gay Forum
- Walk and Talk group
- Woman’s group
- Activities group
- Recovery forum
location: 66a High Street Margate CT9 1DT
contact: Maggie Gallant
tel: 01843 230726
email: furst@rethink.org