Focusing on recovery

Supports that can be urgently and easily scaled up in times of need, and are flexible in response to change, are crucial to ensuring people’s conditions don’t escalate to the point of crisis.

No one should have to relive their worst day just to get support or navigate multiple hurdles in times of need.

We need to see:

• Plans that are personalised, evidence-based and outcomes-driven.
• Flexible funding options that can be scaled up and down.
• Longer plans but more regular check-ins.

We need a scheme that recognises that recovery comes from a coordinated plan to rebuild skills and networks, with a consistent support worker, not just the delivery of individual, disconnected services.

Plans designed to focus on recovery will provide win-win outcomes for the scheme and participants.

• Building teams to provide holistic, specialised and recovery-oriented supports
• Refocus services to incorporate more capacity building dedicated to increasing independence and skills.
• Coordinated support among service providers

There needs to be an understanding that people with psychosocial disability are the experts in their recovery journey, and that the most important guides are others with lived experience who have also taken that journey.

People who have experienced mental health challenges are best placed to design and guide others along the path to recovery.

• Build, train and supervise a lived experience peer support workforce.
• Co-design the implementation of Psychosocial Recovery Plans.
• Integrate peer skills and evaluation programs into recovery.