by admin | Sep 22, 2022 | Blog
Anyone who has been following the Recovery Round-Up will have noted the recurring theme of trauma-informed care, as we continue our journey towards becoming a truly trauma-informed organisation. As the following article shows, it is not simply about how we interact...
by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
By Jennie Chapman Until recently, Chris Kirkland was best-known for becoming English football’s most expensive goalkeeper, when Liverpool signed him, aged just 20, for £6 million in 2001. Two decades later, Kirkland was in the news again, this time on the front rather...
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
On this week’s Recovery Round-Up, we have a powerful article from Beth, an Associate Navigator with Changing Futures – a team that supports people who have frequently experienced the deepest of traumas. Describing her own lived experience of mental health difficulties...
by admin | Aug 9, 2022 | Blog
Continuing in the spirit of mixing things up and trying something new, we present this week’s Recovery Round-Up in the form of a poetry takeover – with a piece of verse from our resident recovery poet and Red Rose volunteer Fred Mansfield. Fred has been writing poetry...
by admin | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog
We’ve decided to do something a bit different for the latest edition of Recovery Round-Up, and temporarily transform the blog into a vlog! Watch Jennie Chapman in conversation with Carl Ablott, Changing Futures Peer Mentor, about his recent success at the Lancashire...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog
By Jennie Chapman CASE STUDY: Anthony, 31, has just been to A+E with severe gastro-intestinal pain. This is his sixth visit in four months with the same symptoms. He is visibly in discomfort, and tells you he has been taking opioids for years, in escalating...
