A Path To Follow is now A Path To Follow Inc. What does that mean? It means we have made a legal commitment to provide services to the community and only use our profits to put back into those services for community. To enable this next big move, we needed a small team with aligned …
A Path To Follow November Updates – We introduce all of the new friendly faces at APTF including our talented Art Therapist + we received our biggest donation yet!
What, why and how I do “A Path To Follow” is complicated apparently (ah, yes it is). This is largely due to our commitment to the customisation of wellbeing services to meet the needs of our peers. But I do get it, I need community to understand what we do, if we are to truly …
Apparently who I am and what I do is complicated – Let me sort that for you… Read More »
Lived Experience Mental Health Peer Support A Mental Health Peer Worker is employed based on their personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges and recovery. They are commonly being employed in hospital and community settings, often alongside the employment of Carer Peers, who tend to support the families of those experiencing challenges. A Path …
So, what exactly is Lived Experience Mental Health Peer Support? Read More »
Running any business is hard and running a lived experience mental health business can be both absolutely soul empowering and continually self doubt engendering. When a professional, a service or even a community member openly or subtly (same result either way) ignores or disregards your professional experience it becomes to feel disrespectful, frustrating and exhausting. …
Lived Experience Mental Health Support – Not a compromised service Read More »
Hey APTFers, I have been trying to work out why I cannot put words to the impact of COVID, from our very first lock down. CONFUSION AND CRAP OVERLOAD. Now, in lock down 5, I have some sense of my distress; enough at least to share the confusion of it all with you… How are …
COVID CRAP and CONFUSION- The world Juxtapositions Read More »