Scottish Recovery Network

22/04/2026

🚊 We’re in Glasgow today for the Let’s Evaluate Peer Support Roadshow!

Peer workers and others involved in peer support are exploring the Adaptable Outcome Map - a practical, peer-values-led approach to evaluation that reflects the relational nature of peer support and the many ways change happens.

Built on Matter of Focus’ Outcome Mapping approach, and shaped by people with lived experience of peer support, it keeps peer language and values at the centre.

📍 Still to come: Dundee and Kirkcaldy as the roadshow continues across Scotland.

You can book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/collections/4820439/events

📸 A few snapshots from today’s roadshow.

21/04/2026

Shout-out to Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland for featuring the Peer Recovery Hub as part of ! 🌟

The Peer Recovery Hub is a free online space sharing tools, resources and opportunities to support and strengthen peer support for mental health recovery.

Have a look and explore what’s available at www.PeerRecoveryHub.net 💬

Welcome to

raises awareness of free and trusted apps and resources that help people improve and manage their health and wellbeing. This month we are excited to share four different apps, tools and resources:

• Drugbot - an AI powered chat tool designed to help guide safer, more informed decisions around substance use, equipping people who use drugs with the knowledge they need to stay safe and make informed choices. More info and access - https://cranstoun.org/help-and-advice/harm-reduction/drugbot/

• Peer Recovery Hub - from the Scottish Recovery Network, an online space with tools, events and opportunities to support you to champion peer support for mental health. More info - https://scottishrecovery.net/peer-support/

• GoodSAM - a global app that alerts members of the public, who know how to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), to a nearby cardiac arrest so that they can provide assistance. More info and sign up - https://www.savealife.scot/GoodSAM/

• SilverCloud - free, structured programmes that support you to manage your health and wellbeing, including helping with low mood, stress, resilience and body positivity. More info and access via NHS Inform - https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/mental-wellbeing/get-help-with-your-mental-health/

Tried one of these tools? Comment on this post or email at dhcscot@alliance-scotland.co.uk with your thoughts. We’d love to hear from you!

If you would like to learn about more digital tools, give our resource guide a read - https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/resources/try-a-tool-resource-booklet/ #

This initiative is part of the Discover Digital project at the ALLIANCE, more information - https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/digital/digital-health-and-care/our-work/discover-digital/

20/04/2026

Thanks to Charity Today News for sharing the news about our new 10-year strategic plan.

Catalysts for Change outlines how through collaboration we can build a recovery-focused mental health system in Scotland powered by lived experience and strengthened by peer support.

“Scotland is struggling to staff a mental health system that can meet current demand. The answer isn’t only about more clinicians; it’s about broadening how we think about the workforce and the types of support people can access."

- Louise Christie, Director, Scottish Recovery Network

Read it all here

Catalysts for Change (2026–2036) outlines how investing in lived experience leadership and a peer support workforce increases access to mental health support,

16/04/2026

A Joint Inspection Report into Dundee Health and Social Care Partnership’s adult mental health services, by the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland, highlights the impactful role of collaboration and peer support in improving services.

In this short piece on our website, Scottish Recovery Network's Director, Louise Christie reflects on the report and the possibilities it presents for a recovery-focused mental health system in the future.

A Joint Inspection Report into Dundee HSCP's adult mental health services by the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland highlights the role of collaboration and peer support in improving services.

15/04/2026

Our friends Future Pathways are recruiting for a Peer Support Lead.

Salary: Point 39 to 43 (£38,470 to £42,564).

Hours: 36.25 hours per week

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh (hybrid)

Closes: Monday 20 April 2026

We offer a range of roles. Our team represents the communities we work in. We value lived and work experience equally.

14/04/2026

🧩 This morning we're bringing together peer support practitioners from across Scotland for an online Peer Connects practice exchange.

The session will focus on building facilitation skills, creating safe spaces, and fostering hopeful conversations in peer support settings.

Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas, explore new tools and develop their peer practice in a supportive and collaborative space.

The session is aligned with one of our four Creating Hope with Peer Support practice guides - Creating Safe Spaces.

All the practice guides in this series are available on our website

The guides are full of learning and practical tips, based on the experiences of peer support groups and services from across Scotland.

13/04/2026

Thanks to TFN for this news item about our new 10-year strategic plan - Catalysts for Change.

Scottish Recovery Network launches new ten-year strategy.

09/04/2026

🧩 We've launched our 10-year strategic plan!

Catalysts for Change sets out Scottish Recovery Network's vision, role, and what we'll be striving to achieve over the next ten years to reshape how Scotland's mental health system works.

Our strategic plan outlines how through collaboration we can build a recovery-focused mental health system powered by lived experience and strengthened by peer support.

This is a significant change in thinking and practice. It will require ambition, persistence and tenacity. We need lived experience leadership, friends of lived experience and recovery, and system changemakers working together.

We know there will be barriers, but we believe that we can overcome them to create a mental health system that operates with hope, connection and recovery at its core.

You can access the strategic plan in different ways on our website:

https://scottishrecovery.net/insight-report/catalysts-for-change/

Or

Or check out the flipbook version

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/dd50211ba2.html

08/04/2026

Our April newsletter is out & features:

- Launch of our 10-year strategic plan: Catalysts for Change
- New Creating Hope with Peer support film - Lived Experience Leading the Way
- Celebrating 2 years of the Peer Recovery Hub

& much more...

👉 https://bit.ly/AprNews2026

08/04/2026

Just under a week until our next Peer Connects online event!

Join us on Tuesday 14 April from 10:30-12:00 for a practical session with a focus on building facilitation skills, creating safe spaces, & fostering hopeful conversations in peer support settings.

This is a great opportunity to come together with other peer workers to exchange ideas, explore new tools, and develop your peer practice in a supportive and collaborative space.

This is a great opportunity to come together with other Peer Practitioners to exchange ideas and explore new tools.

06/04/2026