A Life in the Day: Volume 4 Issue 3
Table of contents
Is New Deal a good deal for mental health service users?
Bob GroveIn December 1998 we held a conference at King's College called Making New Deal a Good Deal for Mental Health. This was before the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) pilots…
Life at The Lee
Sue Vice, Jim McFadyenThe Lee Centre near Lewisham is a new kind of day service that aims to combine work, creative arts and leisure activities — all very much led by the people who use the centre. Sue…
Is employment necessarily therapeutic for people who have experienced mental health problems?
Phillip HillThe assumptions on which many articles in A life in the day are based include the idea that work is good for you. This underplays the real life experiences of many people (and not…
Days in the life of a natural healer and herbalist
In the last issue we included a report on the ‘Strategies for Living’ research done by Alison Faulkner and her colleagues at the Mental Health Foundation. This found that many…
The Four Leaf Clover Club — struggles and successes of a user‐led organisation
Alex WeeksUser‐led organisations are increasingly providing services themselves, but it is not always easy to overcome the barriers of bureaucracy and officialdom when you are inexperienced…
A new era of corporate giving
Bob CornellBob spent 12 years founding and directing a mental health charity. He is a winner of the Guardian Jerwood Award for ‘individual excellence and innovation in the small to medium…
Benefits flexibility pilots — a chance to put the arguments to the test
Judy ScottThe arguments about loosening up the benefits system to allow disabled people to work and retain more of their benefits need testing and evaluation in practice if they are ever to…
User networks
Adam PoznerIn this issue we include profiles from two organisations run by and representing services users. The European Network of (ex‐) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) works at a…