SELF DIRECTION

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• SELF DIRECTION
• WHAT IT MEANS FOR SERVICE USERS

Anne Beales Director of Service User Involvement
Together Working for Wellbeing Management
Committee Member NSUN National Survivor User
Network
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WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO HAVE THINGS DONE TO YOU OR
FOR YOU
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DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Self Governance

• Current Agenda
• Personalisation agenda
• Self direction
• Person centred
• Choice

Partnership
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PARTNERSHIP

• Service User led groups
• Training
• Volunteering opportunities
• Connected
• To ourselves
• To our loved ones
• To our communities

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SELF DIRECTION WHAT IT MEANS FOR SERVICE USERS

• Service user leadership is where our experience
  offers our own unique way forward
• On our own terms
• Sensitive to our priorities
• Culturally competent
• Re affirming

NEVER APPOLOGISING FOR WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE
HAVE EXPERIENCED
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Anne Beales Director of Service-user Involvement
Management Committee Member of NSUN 12, Old
Street, London EC1V 9BE 0207 780
7364 Anne-beales_at_together-uk.org
National Survivor User Network 27 - 29 Vauxhall
GroveVauxhall London, SW8 1SYLocal rate number
0845 602 0779www.nsun.org.uk