Pilotlight blog
April 26, 2016 … Alcohol and Drug Partnerships across Scotland (as well as other areas of the public sector) are going through a learning curve to figure out how best to engage with our communities. I’m going to share our learning over...
April 26, 2016 … In our Pilotlight project in Aberdeenshire we are working with people with lived experience, providers and commissioners to understand and co-design how self-directed support could be used to improve support for people...
April 4, 2016 … Following an initial six month research and recruitment phase, we have facilitated 5 day-long co-design workshops which have brought together people with lived experience of substance misuse recovery and practitioners...
March 30, 2016 … The values and skills required to be a peer support worker are firstly and most importantly I think is to have good communication skills and be a good listener. They must have a good knowledge about the subject whether...
March 23, 2016 … One of the things that is immediately attractive about Self Directed Support (SDS) is that it offers new opportunity and choice. For some people, that choice will be getting help from formal services where the...
March 15, 2016 … As the name suggests, the role of a Peer Support Worker is best done by someone with experience in the client’s particular ailment. Be this addiction, alcoholism or mental illness it is important that the Peer knows...
March 2, 2016 … (Image from Stuart McMillen's comic Rat Park) “It's now exactly 100 years since drugs were first banned. We take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believe it gives them an incentive to stop...
February 18, 2016 … Stuart Bowie (SDS for Substance Misuse Recovery co-design team member), through a creative piece of writing, presents his take on self-directed support in relation to addiction. We envisage that it will provoke mixed...
January 21, 2016 … Self-directed support is Scottish government legislation and aims to give people more choice and control over their care and support services in Scotland. People in recovery from alcohol and drug misuse can get self-...
January 13, 2016 … In this post I am going to focus on self-directed support and risk enablement. In January 2013 my then 85 year old aunt was diagnosed with vascular dementia. As increasing numbers of us are aware such news is at the...