Description:
Awareness is a network of people who have used mental health or addictions services, or identify with experiencing mental illness, substance use issues or distress.
Our aim as a group is to help make mental health services and wider society better for people with experience of distress. We meet monthly as a group, and hold smaller, project group meetings to work on specific projects. Meetings are held on the second Monday of the month from 12.30pm and are a welcoming space open to anyone who identifies with having personal experience of mental illness or addictions.
Members are notified of upcoming meetings, projects, forums, events and opportunities to provide feedback from a consumer point of view to improve services.
Services:
Complementary Therapy (Mad Poets Society, which holds monthly open mic nights and other events): https://awarenesscanterbury.com/mad-poets-society/
Advocacy