1. The Recovery College Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Karen Atkin
Service Development Manager

2. Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change - ImROC
In February 2011, the Department of Health commissioned the Centre for Mental Health and the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network to pilot the national ‘Supporting Recovery’ programme. The Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC) programme is a (new) approach to helping people with mental health problems that aims to change how the NHS and its partners operate so that they can focus more on helping those people with their recovery. ImROC supports local NHS and independent mental health service providers and their partners to become more ‘recovery orientated’.
Brief explanation of what ImROC is – focus on cultural change re recovery practices… Learning sets etc

3. Recovery Colleges UK Lincolnshire 85 Recovery Colleges across the UK
Focus on education rather than therapy
Offer courses on mental health and how to manage it better
Lincolnshire
2014: Opened in Lincoln
2016: Extended to Gainsborough & pilot in Sleaford
2017: Opened in Lincoln FE College and later in the year in New Stamford College
People who have experience of mental ill-health working with health professionals and trainers to create and deliver courses
100s of students have completed the courses
99.9% would recommend doing the courses to family and friends

4. Recovery College
ImROC explicitly recognise the expertise of mental health professionals and the
expertise of lived experience in a process of ‘co-production’.
A Recovery College is run by both peer trainers and mental health practitioner trainers. All courses are co-produced, co-delivered and co-received by staff, people with mental health problems and the people who are close to them.
Recovery Colleges are all around the UK. All have different criteria methods and referral processes however all are underpinned by Co-production. Our unique take on RC is that we are peer led. All staff currently working in the College are peer trainers/facilitators not health experts. Whilst we all have our own lived experience making us experts by experience we do not have the health practitioner trainers always available.

5. Co production
The concept of co-production originates from the principles of time banking and reciprocity where people give time to others based on an exchange of expertise.
The concept of co-production is mentioned as a key element to mental health delivery in the Government implementation framework ‘No Health without Mental Health’.
This states that providers of mental health services, including independent, third sector and statutory providers, have a central role in improving mental health outcomes for individuals and families

6. Co production cont..
Co-production is built on the understanding that public services are best delivered ‘with’, and not ‘to’ people. Co-production creates deeper, more durable change than other methods of public service delivery which fail to recognise the value of involving service users.
Co-production demands that public service staff shift from ‘fixers’ whose role is to focus on problems to ‘enablers’ who focus on strengths and abilities.

7. What’s the difference…
A therapeutic approach
Focuses on problems, deficits and dysfunctions
Strays beyond formal therapy sessions and becomes the over arching paradigm
Transforms all activities into therapies-work therapy, gardening therapy
Problems are defined, and the type of therapy is chosen by the professional “expert”
Maintains the power imbalances and reinforces the belief that all expertise lies within the professionals
An educational approach
Helps people recognise and make use of their talents and resources
Assists people in exploring their possibilities and developing their skills
Supports people to achieve their goals and ambitions
Staff become coaches who help people find their own solutions
Students choose their own courses, work out ways of making sense of and what has happened and become experts in managing their own lives

8. Recovery Principles
HOPE
CONTROL
OPPORTUNITY

9. Courses on offer
What is Recovery Dementia First Aid Living with Psychosis Creating Hope Understanding a diagnosis of BPD The really useful toolbox for work Dreaming of a better sleep Mindfulness Communication Skills Mindfulness/compassion Understanding your medication Work Matters Volunteering in Recovery Living with Stress Spirituality Living with Anxiety Singing in Recovery Telling your story Lifestyles Matters Mental Health Resilience WRAP Living in a crisis Living with Bipolar Living beyond the label

10. What makes us “us” Professional referral
I am just a patient
Professional referral
I am a student like everyone else
Self-referral
Therapist
Tutor
Treatment & support
Education courses with objectives and outcomes
Discharge
Graduation

11. Partnership Working Lincoln College & Stamford College
Integration into the college for all students
Signposting to adult education when appropriate

12. Summary Recovery is about rebuilding your life:
finding meaning in what has happened
finding a new sense of self and purpose
discovering and using your own resources and resourcefulness
growing within and beyond what has happened to you
“. Recovery is often defined conservatively as returning to a stable baseline or former level of functioning. However many people, including myself, have experienced recovery as a
transformative process in which the old self is gradually let go of and a new sense of self emerges.” (Deegan, 1993)
Pat Deegen well known writer about her own experiences of mental health and recovey