PEER SUPPORT WORK

PEER SUPPORT WORK

We offer collaborative and continued research and development in mental health, involving service users and peer support work

Community mental health services are not well established in Uganda due to the lack of qualified staff. This is a contributing factor to the gap in knowledge about mental health in the communities

We explore the integration of Peer Support Workers (PSWs), who are defined as people with a lived experience in mental health and have accepted to openly share their experiences for the benefit of others who are still stricken under the power of self-stigma and poverty.

They are to be integrated in the government health sector to bridge the gap in human resource (staffing shortages through co-production in these low income countries and to tap or benchmark their enriched experience as a tool for recovery).

It is this experience of PSWs that shall empower and inspire those service users who are still reserved about their mental health status to realize that recovery is possible and can become productive.