Pilotlight blog
September 2, 2013 … This is a very difficult question to answer, as it is not so straight forward. I say that because everyone with mental heath issues is an individual. Ideally I would like to suggest that mental health professionals...
July 17, 2013 … Self-directed support, with careful planning, could be a great help to the well-being of people with fluctuating mental health. The planning and form filling parts of the assessment should always be done when the...
July 11, 2013 … For the last six months I have been attending the Pilotlight workshops in Moray. We have been addressing how best to introduce self-directed support to people with mental health problems. I am a full time carer for a...
June 27, 2013 … When I was first approached by my SAMH support worker about putting my name forward for the Pilotlight project, I was surprised, scared and a little bit honoured. Me?? Put my name forward, to be part of a co-design...
June 25, 2013 … Over the last few weeks I have been conducting consultation events across Scotland with independent sector providers of care at home and care home services for older people. I have been undertaking these events as the...
May 28, 2013 … I was unsure of coming along to the group initially as have no previous experience of this kind of thing but thought I would go to the first one or two to see what it was all about. Also I wanted to know more about...
May 20, 2013 … Having never experienced this kind of project before I had no idea what it entailed. I'm involved in Pilotlight in Moray because I wanted to make a difference to other peoples lives (like me) who are living with mental...
April 23, 2013 … Pilotlight is a project about co-designing pathways to self-directed support for groups of people who have so far been less engaged with the self-directed support agenda. Co-design can be defined as, “the process of...
March 7, 2013 … In our last blog we talked about how we intended working with the co-design teams in Moray and the Scottish Borders. We have now held workshops with both teams. We are nearing the end of our ‘Discover’ (research) phase...
November 7, 2012 … On Wednesday 3rd October we met 25 support providers from across Scotland at the Scottish Youth Theatre venue, Glasgow. The day was the first meeting of the Pilotlight Provider Network and was a great success. We...