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Experience and innovation: working in partnership - conference programme
6 November
| 5:00pm |
Delegates arrive,
register and check
into their rooms
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| 6:00pm |
Celebrating the
network: stronger
together |
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What is to be
gained from
working together?
How can we make this work? This session will look at the advantages of being connected and will focus on NSUN, why it was formed and what it hopes to achieve. |
| Chair: |
Tina Coldham, Vice-chair, Mind Link and Trustee, NSUN |
| Panel: |
Chandra Fowler, Coordinator, NSUN
Shannon O'Neill, Mind Link Manager
Further panel members to be confirmed |
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| 7:00pm |
Dinner and party |
7 November
| 10:00am |
Experience: learning from one another |
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We have the skills, talents and experience to support each other. Whatever problems you've had, you can bet someone else has had them first and probably overcome them! Why look elsewhere?
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| Chair: |
Shannon O'Neill, Mind Link Manager |
| Panel: |
David Crepaz-Keay, National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
Jeff Walker, Director, Bristol Mind
Dominic Walker, Network Development Manager, Catch-a-fiya BME Mental Health Survivors Network
Further panel members to be confirmed |
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| 11:15am |
Break |
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| 11.30am |
Participants will then have a choice from the following workshops: |
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What does 'mental health' actually look and feel like - and who decides? - Marcus Roberts, Head of Policy, Mind |
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Why is a national service user / survivor network organisation needed? What is it going to do? - Chandra Fowler, Coordinator with other staff and trustees from NSUN |
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Open Up to Moving People – Open Up team members |
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Taking the social enterprise initiative: the journey – Bernie Hannon, Director, Business Boosters Network |
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Working in Partnership: a multi-agency approach for routes to employment and vocation in North East London - Shaun Gastall, Mind Link National Advisory Panel Member, LGB Representative and Advanced Practitioner, Occupational Therapy, Employment and Vocational Opportunities Service, London Borough of Waltham Forest |
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Using Direct Payments as a route to recovery - Pauline Heslop |
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| 12:45pm |
Lunch and networking |
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| 2:00pm |
Workshops repeated |
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| 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
Innovation: taking the good work forward |
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So where we go from here? Where are the new challenges? And how can we work together to meet them? |
| Chair: |
Tina Coldham, Vice-chair, Mind Link and Trustee, NSUN |
| Panel: |
Matt Gregory, User Involvement Worker, Revolving Doors Agency
Howard Beck, Equality Development Officer (Deaf and Hard of Hearing), Leeds City Council
Further panel members to be confirmed |
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| 4:45pm |
Closing remarks |
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| 5:00pm |
End of conference |
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