Name: Consumer Activity Network (Mental Health) Inc
Website: http://www.canmentalhealth.org.au

Details:

This consumer run organisation providing recovery activities and peer support services to people living with mental illness. Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) involvement has been to implement the Busting Out of the Welfare & Poverty Cycle Project for people living on the Central Coast, NSW.

 

Name: Dept of Health & Ageing Mental Health
Website: http://www.health.gov.au

Name: Mental Health Association NSW
Website: http://www.mentalhealth.asn.au

Name: NSW Consumer Advisory Group
Website: http://www.nswcag.org.au

Details:

This organisation is the peak consumer  body in NSW for people living with mental illness. Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) owner has enjoyed an extensive history with this organisation.

Highlights for NSW CAG include:

• Co Co-Ordinator of the National Standards for Mental Health Services, Quilt Project. This quilt travels across Australia and promoting these standards.
• Co Co-Ordinator - National Standards Festival - a one off special event promoting the National Standards for Mental Health Services.

As an innovative trainer and facilitator, Ms Desley Casey, owner of Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) has developed highly successful training and is the only WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) Facilitator in NSW. Training courses include but not limited to:

• Becoming a Peer Support Worker (on behalf of CAN (Mental Health) Inc.
• Consumer Advocacy
• Consumer Representation
• Busting Out of the Welfare & Poverty Cycle Facilitator's Workshops
• Coping with Voices Recovery Group
• And, a whole lot more

 

Name: NSW Health Centre for Mental Health
Website: http://www.centreformentalhealth.nsw.gov.au

Name: NSW Institute of Psychiatry
Website: http://www.nswiop.edu.au

Details:

This training organisation has a long and positive history of developing innovative training within the mental health sector and with community organisations. Ms Desley Casey of Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) and the Institute have a highly positive and long history spanning over 15 years of providing training sessions and developing training courses run and hosted by the Institute to mental health consumers (people living with mental illness), mental health service providers and workers within community organisations.

 

Name: PRA
Website: http://www.pra.org.au

Details:

This organisation is the largest mental health supported employment organisation in the Southern Hemisphere. Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) has enjoyed 2 vastly different contracts with PRA, these being:

• Co-ordination of the PRA 50th Anniversary Celebrations for over 100 guests and
• ,Independent consultancy work of their recovery and rehabilitation services. PRA were so impressed with the independent consultancy work they developed for their organisation's workers the book, based on the report titled "Three Steps to Success". Website: www.pra.org.au

Name: SANE Australia
Website: http://www.sane.org

Name: Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
Website: http://www.vmiac.com.au

Details:

VMIAC is the peak mental health consumer body in Victoria.  They also have a consumer research unit which is currently (2008/09) contracted by CAN (Mental Health) Inc. to undertake the very first peer led review (external evaluation) of the peer support services (Community Connections Project) provided by the organisation.