Mental health peer support has the power to make a real difference. 🎬 Our new animation shares learning from peer support workers, groups and services across Scotland and beyond. Watch, share and explore free resources at the Peer Recovery Hub: bit.ly/PeerRecovery... #PeerSupportScot #FilmFriday

Our special #GlobalPeerSupportCelebrationDay newsletter is here! Discover our new animation, take a digital wander through our peer support photo gallery, and find out about our upcoming Peer Connects events. 📖: bit.ly/GPSCDay2026N... #PeerSupportScot #PeerSupportBelongsHere

💜 Happy Global Peer Support Celebration Day! We're celebrating the people who make peer support so powerful. This video brings together familiar faces from our events over the years. Can you spot yourself or someone you know? 👀 #GlobalPeerSupportCelebrationDay #PeerSupportScot

🧩 Something special is coming this Thursday for Global Peer Support Celebration Day! Our newsletter features a new animation on mental health peer support, a photo gallery, and our next Peer Connects webinar. 📩 Sign up: bit.ly/ScotRecovery... #PeerSupportScot #GlobalPeerSupportCelebrationDay

💜 Peer support is lived experience in action! Our Peer2Peer toolbox builds skills and confidence in peer support values and practice through sharing, listening and learning together. Explore: bit.ly/Peer2PeerToo... #Peer2Peer #PeerSupportScot #LivedExperience

#PeerSupport in Scotland: Insight Report 1 draws on evidence, lived experience & national & international data to show why peer support matters, where we are now, & what action is needed to ensure peer support flourishes. Read it here scottishrecovery.net/insight-repo... #WorldMentalHealthDay

This Saturday is #WorldMentalHealthDay, the theme is 'Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change'. 🎬 Take 2 mins to watch as Laura & John, students / peer volunteers at North Ayrshire Wellbeing and Recovery College share the powerful impact of this cross sector, community-based approach.

💥Lived experience is a super power! Recovery colleges are lived experience & peer support super powers in action! In a feature for @thirdforcenews.bsky.social our Eilidh explores the impact of this approach & what it needs to grow. 📰 From p38 tfn.scot/magazine/sep... #WorldMentalHealthDay

Lived experience and peer support can help drive transformative change across Scotland’s mental health system. Catalysts for Change our 10-year strategic plan outlines how: bit.ly/10-YearStrat... #WorldMentalHealthDay #PeerSupportScot #MHRecovery2036

🌍 World Mental Health Day is this Saturday. Theme: Lived experiences heard. Real voices, real change. We’ll be sharing resources about peer support & lived experience. We’d love your thoughts: how do we make sure lived experiences help shape real change? #WorldMentalHealthDay #PeerSupportScot

📰 ICYMI: Our latest newsletter brings together great reading & upcoming events Read our article on Recovery Colleges, catch up on our latest blog on peer leadership and relational approaches, and see what’s coming up at Peer Connects. 📖: bit.ly/OctNews2026 #PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #Recovery

😊 There’s something special about connecting with someone who just gets it. Peer support can create genuine connections built on shared understanding and lived experience. 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5u... #PeerSupportScot #WorldSmileDay #FilmFriday

Lived Experience Leading the Way

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🧩 We’re in Glasgow for Peer Leadership in Scotland: Setting the Agenda! Peer leaders and people with lived experience are sharing, reflecting and exploring how peer leadership and co-production can shape mental health support. Explore our Peer Connects events: bit.ly/PeerConnects... #PeerConnects

There’s plenty to explore in our latest newsletter! Read our article on Recovery Colleges, catch up with our latest blog on peer leadership and relational approaches, and find out what’s coming up at our next Peer Connects events. 📖: bit.ly/OctNews2026 #PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #Recovery

⏰ There’s still time to book! This Thursday, 1 October, we’re in Glasgow for Peer Leadership in Scotland: Setting the Agenda. Explore peer leadership, co-production and the future of mental health support in Scotland. Book now: peerleadershipscotland.eventbrite.co.uk #PeerSupportScot

Looking to build your confidence and skills in offering peer support? We have free practice guides bring together practical advice, ideas and guidance on creating safe spaces, exploring safety and risk, and so much more! 🔗: bit.ly/CHPSResources #PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #Recovery

Peer support creates spaces where LGBTQIA+ people can share experiences, build confidence & feel supported. 🎥 In this film, Lindsey, Operations Manager, The Hive Kirkcaldy, shares how peer support makes these spaces possible. youtu.be/gdj5hDbvYVs?... #FilmFriday #PeerSupportScot #BiVisibilityDay

Lindsey: The Power of Peer Support for LGBTQIA+ communities

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One week to go until Peer Leadership in Scotland: Setting the Agenda in Glasgow. Explore peer leadership, co-production and the future of mental health support in Scotland: peerleadershipscotland.eventbrite.co.uk See what happened at our last Peer Connects event! 👇 #PeerSupportScot #PeerConnects

What could Scotland’s mental health system look like in 2036? A system where lived experience is trusted, peer support is valued, and recovery is the way the system works, not the alternative to it. 📖 Read our 10-year strategy: bit.ly/10-YearStrat... #MHRecovery2036 #PeerSupportScot

How can peer support play a role in mental health prevention and early intervention? We explore the role of peer support, share examples of its impact, and highlight opportunities to increase its positive impact across Scotland. 📖 bit.ly/InsightRepor... #PeerSupportScot #TheFutureIsPeer

🧩 Have you explored the Peer2Peer toolbox yet? Bringing together practical resources, activities, session plans and guidance, the toolbox supports peer workers to learn, reflect and develop their practice. 👉Take a look: bit.ly/Peer2PeerToo... #Peer2Peer #PeerSupportScot

How do we turn insight into action & make lived experience & peer support part of long-term change in Scotland’s mental health system? This webinar brought together voices from peer support, policy, delivery & lived experience to explore what meaningful change could look like. youtu.be/5-CY_AJLKJw

Transforming Scotland's Mental Health System From Insight to Action (Webinar)

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Recovery colleges are showing what prevention can look like in practice. The September issue of @thirdforcenews.bsky.social explores what recovery colleges are achieving across Scotland. Find From ambition to action on pages 38–41: tfn.scot/magazine/sep... #PeerSupportScot #RecoveryColleges

Today we're joining the panel at @alliancescot.bsky.social Integration in Action: Rethinking Power event. The conversation will explore power sharing and the role of lived experience in decision making, themes at the heart of our Catalysts for Change vision: bit.ly/10-YearStrat... #MHRecovery2036

What can we learn from people working in peer support? 💬 Last month’s Peer Worker Practice Exchange brought people together to share ideas and experiences. We pulled together 10 things we learned: bit.ly/10ThingsWeLe... Explore upcoming Peer Connects: bit.ly/PeerConnects... #PeerSupportScot

🗺️ A different way to look at evaluation. The Adaptable Outcome Map offers a flexible way to explore and evidence the difference peer support makes, while staying true to peer support values. Explore the map, guide and examples: bit.ly/AOMResources #PeerSupportScot #Evaluation #MentalHealth

World Suicide Prevention Day was yesterday, but the conversation doesn’t stop there 💛 Our special edition newsletter includes short films, four free practice guides and more. 📖 Read: bit.ly/WSPD2026News #FilmFriday #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #PeerSupportScot

To mark #WSPD2026, we’ve put together a special edition of our newsletter 💛 Inside: short films, four free practice guides and an article from @theferret.scot on suicide bereavement and peer support. 📖 Read: bit.ly/WSPD2026News #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #PeerSupportScot

We’re all set up at Abertay University for today’s suicide prevention conference. Our workshop, Peer support driving change in suicide prevention, will explore peer support’s role in early support, crisis and bereavement, while challenging common misconceptions. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

We’re looking forward to being part of the CDAS Annual National Conference! Our Projects Coordinator, Eilidh, will be joining a panel to share perspectives from Scottish Recovery Network. 📅 23 September, Glasgow Book: www.communitydevelopmentalliancescotland.org/conference-2... #PeerSupportScot