Recovery

In mental health terms 'recovery' is the process that people go through to make the very best of their circumstances.

‘Recovery’ is recognition that, though there may be difficult challenges ahead, it is possible to control the direction of one's life with the help of people who may be close to you and other people, including trained professionals, who make caring their business.

Recovery is at the heart of everything we do and our ongoing aim is that people who use our services should enjoy the best possible quality of life. A major factor in achieving this is the work carried out with the Mental Health Providers Forum in developing the Recovery Star*, something which enables the service user to influence and really understand their own path to recovery.
 
Recovery Star is a tool for supporting and measuring change when working with adults who experience mental health problems. It is an outcomes tool, which enables organisations and service users to summarise and measure change. It provides people with a map of the journey to recovery.

Essentially Making Space will listen to you and give the most straightforward advice to help you to make the most of your life.

The kind of service we provide is captured in the Case Study below (people's names are changed to protect their identity).

'D', a Making Space employment development worker, recently received this email from ‘J’, one of the people he’d been working with on the Making Space ‘Build Skills, Build Confidence’ Course.

'J' had an unhappy experience in her previous employment and needed to work on her self-belief to move forward. Her subsequent new application to train as a nurse gives great inspiration to the people Making Space work with on a daily basis…
“Hi D,

Have just submitted my application to UCAS!!!

Just want to say THANK YOU for all your support, patience and guidance through this process, it really has been invaluable.  You worked at my pace, empowering me and gently encouraging me to plan for the future and broke this down into achievable steps.  Your open manner, flexibility and sense of humour helped me to feel valued and at ease.  Who would have thought that the dithering person who could not be sure of her future and greeted any suggestion with pessimism when she first met you back in April, could now be the decisive, hope filled person with hopes for the future I am today.  I really couldn't have got there without you.

Cheers

J."