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Developing peer support: from acorns to trees

Reflections on the journey

Last year we worked with Future Pathways, Voices for a Better Future and the Scottish Recovery Network to look at how we might co-design peer support for care survivors supported by Future Pathways. If you aren't familiar with the term care survivors, it refers to people abused or neglected as children in the Scottish care system.

Peer support was something that care survivors had already identified that they wanted, to enhance what they were already receiving through individual support coordination, to help improve their own lives (and, of course, others).

Co-designing peer support: future pathways

Published on 21 Nov 2024

Peer support and why it matters

Peer support is not new and exists in many forms – from informal sharing of experiences, to formalised peer support roles in services (paid and unpaid). It covers one-to-one as well as group relationships and activities…

Co-designing peer support: future pathways

Published on 28 Nov 2023

Support service for social workers launched

The word 'support' written in Scrabble letters

Support service launched in Scotland as survey reveals pandemic has left social workers 'exhausted and seeking professional help'.

Published in

News

on 2 Jun 2021

Iriss on...Making Recovery Real

A short paper on the Making Recovery Real approach, with insight from Louise Christie (SRN) and Ruth Brown (Team Leader and Chair of Making Recovery Real in Dundee.

Published in

Iriss on…

on 15 Apr 2020

Newly qualified social workers, supervision and child protection

ESSS Outline

Explores how newly qualified social workers can be supported in their first year, with a focus on effective supervision.

Published in

Outlines

on 8 Apr 2019

Unaccompanied asylum seeking young people

Showcasing Community Social Work

A peer mentoring and support network co-produced with young people.

Published in

Case studies

on 26 Apr 2018

Peer support roles in mental health services

Insight 31

Defines what peer support roles are and what they mean for services and the evidence for their use in mental health services.

Published in

Insights

on 27 May 2016

Supporting Peer Support

Thoughts for people wishing to set up, run or participate in a peer support group

Report that is drawn from lessons learned during the facilitation of Evaluation Exchange.

Evaluation Exchange was a time-limited peer support network created by Iriss and Evaluation Support Scotland. It aimed to help organisations in the social services sector to learn from and support each other to undertake evaluations of the services and support they provide to individuals in Scotland.

Published in

Reports

on 8 Oct 2013

Evaluation Exchange report

Building capacity to self-evaluate

Evaluation Exchange was set up by Iriss working in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS). We brought together a group of practitioners from social services sector with a real self-evaluation project to undertake. We wanted the participants to assist each other to plan and/or undertake the evaluation and build their capacity to self-evaluate. We were also interested in learning about and sharing 'what works' in peer support for self-evaluation.

Published in

Reports

on 8 Oct 2013

The importance of peer support

Pam Duncan

Pam Duncan, policy officer at Independent Living in Scotland project, speaks about the importance of peer support in order to live a more independent and fulfilling life.

Published in

Videos

on 9 Mar 2012