Recovery Education is guided by good practice and consistent and rigorous co-production is a positive approach for recovery and mental health promotion in the community.

Recovery Education:

• Empowers people to have control over their own personal recovery. It challenges the idea of compliance and the dependent patient role.
• Reinforces social inclusion for all or ‘challenges the concept of congregated settings’
• It promotes an environment that encourages understanding, knowledge and skill development and challenges the stigma around mental health.
• Supports identifying individual learning goals that can have practical application in life. Recovery culture describes a move from paternalistic care-giving to Person Centred mental health care.
• Provides an adult learning opportunity rather than a ‘day care’ type service.

Within our communities there will be people with experience of mental health challenges, people who care about those with mental health challenges, staff members who provide mental health services and people have an interest in the area of mental health.

Recovery Education can provide people with a shared space to learn with, and from, others in a non-judgmental, accepting and encouraging environment where challenges are explored in a positive way.

For families, it can be an opportunity to reduce isolation and stigma while increasing knowledge, communications and coping skills. It can create a learning environment where both people who use services, and those who provide them, experience a different kind of relationship. This environment challenges unhelpful practice, attitudes, behaviour and prejudices of mental health so that people with lived experience of mental health challenges can feel safe, welcome, valued and accepted.

For staff, it can provide opportunities to learn new ways of supporting individuals and families affected by mental health challenges, and to find better ways to support their own mental health and wellbeing.

Recovery Education is the process by which individuals explore, assimilate and create the knowledge required for recovery in their own lives or in the lives of those they support. It involves providing educational services to, and within, local communities (HSE, 2017).

Recovery Education takes a strengths-based and adult education approach which offers the choice to engage in learning opportunities. It is influenced by the values of self-direction, personal experience, ownership, diversity, and hopefulness (HSE, 2017).

Recovery Education uses an adult education approach to facilitate mental health recovery. Module/course content is co-produced and co-facilitated by people with lived experience of mental health challenges, family members/carers/supporters, service providers and community partners.

Please contact us using the information below;   

Peer Educator Mayo Recovery College                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Karen McHale 
Peer Educator
Tel: 086 0294901
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College Director
Donal Hoban

Peer Educator Roscommon/ East Galway College
Amanda Hunt
REGARI Recovery College
The Lodge
Athlone Road
Roscommon Town

https://www.recoverycollegewest.ie/regari/
Tel:  087 622 1335
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Facebook: Regari Recovery College
Twitter: @regaric
 
College Coordinator  Roscommon / East Galway  
Orla O'Duinn
Occupational Therapy Manager
Tel: 087 6502715
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Peer Educator Galway
Virgina Moyles
Tel: 087 3401667
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https://www.recoverycollegewest.ie/galway/

Welcome to Recovery College West

We are three sister colleges offering Recovery Education sessions locally & nationally.

REGARI (Roscommon-East Galway Advancing Recovery in Ireland) Recovery College is a community based initiative that will empower you to become an expert in your own self-care and enhance your skills and confidence to manage your own recovery through education, conversation and collaboration in mental health and well-being.

Mission

• To promote social inclusion and community involvement.
• To develop and deliver modules through working in partnership with people with lived experience of mental health challenges, family members, carers, people working in mental health and others.
• To make these modules available throughout Roscommon and East Galway and in Athlone Institute of Technology.
• To promote a culture of change to ensure an environment of mutual respect, opportunity, control and hope.

Contact Details

Amanda Hunt
Peer Educator  Roscommon/ East Galway College
REGARI Recovery College
The Lodge
Athlone Road
Roscommon Town
Tel: 086 130 4869
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Facebook: Regari Recovery College

Twitter: @regarirc

College Coordinator

Orla O Duinn, Occupational Therapy Manager, Galway/Roscommon Mental Health Service is the HSE Lead for REGARI Recovery College alongside Co lead and Peer Educator Amanda Hunt.
Tel: 087 650 2715
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Galway Recovery College Prospectus 

  Galway Recovery College  Student Registration Form

This is a six week 2.5 hr weekly session self care management programme for people living with on going health conditions be it physical, mental or neurological.

The Self Care to Wellness Programme is designed to help people learn ways to manage the symptoms and feelings that are common when faced with a long term Health condition. the programme also recognises the value of peer support and requires that at least one of the co-facilitators of a programme are they themselves living with a long term health condition. During this programme you will develop the skills to become an active self manager of your condition, you decide what is important to you and what you would like to work on.   Topics covered on the programme: managing pain, fatigue and difficult emotion, nutrition and exercise methods, setting manageable goals for the individual, managing medications, communicating effectively with your family, friends and health care team.  The programme is run all over Mayo and Roscommon. Cost of programme is €20.00. 

You can register for the programme as follows:

Mayo Office

Jackie Lynott

Self Care to Wellness Coordinator

Telephone No: (094) 9034980 or Mobile No: 087-7185615

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Website: www.selfcaretowellness.org

Roscommon Office

Jackie Morrison

Self Care to Wellness Coordinator

Mobile No: 083-8478076

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Website: www.selfcaretowellness.org

Enrolment: Tuesday 18th February 2020, GMIT 11:00AM - 2:00PM & 5:00pm - 7:00pm

If you are unable to attend please contact the Mayo Recovery College to arrange same.

“I feel honoured to be part of such an enriching and educational endeavour and to witness first-hand the amazing transformation and learning that have occurred as a result of this open dialogue”

“I feel very lucky to have found this course and timing is perfect. I feel empowered, a deep sense of involvement and a boost to my feeling of hope and connectedness”

“As a health care professional I found the co-production and co-delivery a very valuable engaging experience which I have found enhanced my interaction with service users”

“After my second day I feel yes, there is an outside world that feels the same as me with help I can learn to change and accept myself”

“I hope this opened up more doors for future personal development.  I found I learned more on aspects of my life which I want to improve on”

“What I enjoyed most was the positive language of the tutors and the clear and effective delivery in a very down to earth way”

“Keep bouncing back! Never give up! I want to do more modules now!”

“The college made me very strong.  I stopped waiting and know I have to take the action”