Question

What role (s) may experienced workers / experts by experience perform within the new approach of psychiatric home care?

Problem description

The 2B mobile teams of our project currently operate with one experienced worker each, employed on a voluntary basis. The teams lack experience, there is no history and experience in the mental health care in Belgium, and there is little impact of the Flemish Users Platform. However, there is intensive consultation with user organisations and between user organisations

Impact - effect

Experts by experience are not systematically recruited in mental health care.  And if one is, the job responsibilities and tasks are not clearly defined.

To do

To do: there is obviously still much to be done outside the context of our mobile teams (policy, education, sector), but we try as much as possible to start from the assumption that an expert by experience should be equated with any other employee in the team

Theme

Valorisation of expertise by experience

Topic

Expert by experience as a team member

Reference -  contact

Dirk Baeyens, Nele Van Hijfte

Mobile team

2B

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Birmingham (AOT Matthews Centre)

Date

November 2012