Advocacy in Wirral doesn’t compromise on our belief that individuals can – and do - recover from mental ill-health, and we seek to provide a supportive framework where individual robustness can be re-built and sustained.  Advocacy is only part of the support we provide.

Recovery is a personal process that involves tackling the adverse impact of experiencing mental health problems, despite their continuing or long-term presence.   When used in this sense, it does not mean  "cure".   Instead, it’s about changing our perception of ourselves as passive recipients of professional interventions – we have an important role to play in our own recovery, and sometimes it happens without any professional input.

Recovery is often described as a journey, involving personal development and change.  It means we begin to accept that life brings problems to be faced, and we begin to take control over our own lives.  We start to cultivate hope and (using the support from others) foster change in our lives.

Some people recovering from mental illness claim that out of adversity has come change, personal development and growth.

People who have made their own personal recovery have provided important accounts of their experience. Mary Ellen Copeland has turned her experiences into self-help strategies for others, by creating and developing WRAP (wellness recovery action planning).

More information on WRAP is available here.

Recovery challenges traditional approaches in mental health and is consistent with the recent drive towards mental well-being and the improvement necessary to affect the whole of a person’s life, rather than only addressing individual problems in isolation.

We are in the process of establishing a recovery-focused Social Enterprise to provide services to people on the Wirral and elsewhere.   Our current range of recovery-based services are expected, in due course, to transfer to the new organisation.

For more details about our recovery services, please contact

Paul Etherington on 0151 650 1530

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