Derby City Life Links is a community-based mental health recovery service that places people with lived experience of mental ill health at the heart of its peer support model. People with direct experience of mental health challenges are employed and trained as peer support workers, facilitating gr…
Expertise: Mental Health Recovery, Peer Support, Lived Experience, Community Support, Hearing Voices, Wellbeing, Self-Referral
Derby City Life Links provides a wellness and mental health recovery service for people in Derby City and Derbyshire. The service offers information, advice, navigation support, peer support groups (Creative Group, Managing Wellbeing Group, Hearing Voices and more), one-to-one support, and free mental health courses. Services can be funded through personal budgets, adult social care, or healthcare. The organisation supports self-referrals and works with professionals to help individuals achieve recovery, independence, and sustainable wellbeing.