2. Samuel Walker – Bayside Initiatives GrouP INC.
Peer BIG
Samuel Walker – Bayside Initiatives GrouP INC.

3. OUR PLACE
8/37 Veronica St. Capalaba

4. A PLACE FOR US
RUN BY US
AND ABOUT US

5. WHAT IS BIG? A boutique, grass roots mental health service
Run entirely by people with a lived experience
Member driven - member focused

6. A home away from home…

7. COMMUNITY + FELLOWSHIP = BIG

8. OUR PROGRAMS

9. BIG

10. POOL COMPETITION

11. OUTINGS

12. COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

13. OUTREACH SERVICES

14. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

15. What would help me to gain some insight into what this was all about?
PEER SUPPORT
What is Peer Support?
If I was a not a part of the Peer Movement, what would I want to I know?
What would help me to gain some insight into what this was all about?

16. Role Modelling Recovery
Hope
Empathy
Understanding
Self-Determination
Role Modelling Recovery

17. What Other Peer Workers Say…
"I sit with people and I listen to them. I talk to them and support them with what they're going through."
 "I validate people by connecting my experience with theirs and offering them compassion and understanding."
 "I work with people on their recovery, using methods that we BOTH agree are helpful and beneficial."

18. BIG PICTURE RECOVERY

19. Foundation of Recovery
RELATIONSHIPS

20. KEY TO MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY
SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE

21. Medical
Model +
Peer
Model

22. PEER WORKERS Work with people as people, not clients
It's about person meeting person
Being real, being genuine and being open to what a person is going through

23. Road to Recovery CRISIS Peer Support Moving Forward Healing Stabilised
Rebuilding
Diagnosed
Growth
Medicated
Peer
Support

24. HUMAN CONNECTION

25. NATURAL RELATIONSHIPS
HOPE
INSPIRATION
MUTUAL SUPPORT
SELF DETERMINATION
COMPASSION
UNDERSTANDING
NATURAL RELATIONSHIPS
SHARED EXPERIENCE

26. What We Do…
We be with people, we listen to them, we talk to them and we support them.
Our expertise is our lived experience.
Training, education, practice tools.
Foundation of expertise = lived experience.

27. Medical
Model +
Peer
Model
COLLABORATION

34. How we view, think about, treat & prevent mental illness
Looking Forward…
Research
Collaboration
Development
Revolutionise
How we view, think about, treat & prevent mental illness