User & Carer Involvement
Group type:
Other Local Group
Main contact:
Carolyn Little
Contact number:
01387 255 330
Email address:
userandcarer1@aol.com
Website address:
http://www.userandcarer.co.uk User & Carer Involvement, 81-85 Irish Street, Dumfries DG1 2PQ, Tel: 01387 255 330, Email: userandcarer1@aol.com Website: www.userandcarer.co.uk
Our Mission:
To ensure that people who have mental illness, dementia or learning disabilities, and their carers have a representative voice and, as a result, see positive changes in their service provision.
We achieve this by:
Providing training and support to enable members and/or groups to express themselves effectively.
Encouraging statutory and non-statutory agencies, which provide services to become more responsive to the needs and views of members and/or groups by involving users, carers and their representatives in the planning, commissioning, monitoring and delivery of services which affect them.
Assisting members and or/groups to access information regarding services and legislation and other information necessary and appropriate to the support that they may require.
Maximising member and/or group representation in appropriate aspects of Mental Health, Learning Disability and Dementia care.
Creating safe forums where people can express their concerns and have their concerns taken forward, anonymously if necessary, to the appropriate agencies.
Providing training and support to enable members and/or groups to express themselves effectively.