The 10 Key Challenges are ImROC’s Organisational Development design blueprint. They are evidence based and the areas of work that ImROC Consultants explore in supporting the development of Recovery Focused Practice.
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Changing the Nature of Day to day Interactions
Changing the Nature of Day to day Interactions and the Quality of Experiences


2
Coproduced Learning
Coproduced learning and development opportunities, available for staff, people using services and their families to learn together
3
Developing Recovery Colleges
Coproduced Recovery focused learning opportunities are available in physical and virtual Recovery Colleges where people with mental health conditions, the staff and families who support them and others in local communities can share expertise and learn together
A Personal Health and Wellbeing Plan for Family, Friends and Carers
Whitley R, Shepherd G, Slade M (2019) Recovery Colleges as a mental
health innovation, World Psychiatry, 18, 141-142.
Crowther A, Taylor A, Toney R, Meddings S, Whale T, Jennings H, Pollock
K, Bates P, Henderson C, Waring J, Slade M (2019) The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 28, 481-488


4
Recovery focused leadership and changing the culture
Recovery focused leadership at every level and a culture of Recovery in place
Team Recovery Implementation Plan
Implementing Recovery: A Methodology for Organisational Change
Implementing Recovery: A New Framework for Organisational Change
Coproduction and leadership (Repper R & Eve J.D.) link to follow
Vacher, G. (2017) Utilising Team Recovery Implementation Plan (TRIP): embedding recovery-focused practice in rehabilitation service. MHSI Vol 21, Issue 4. ISSN: 2042-8308
Waddingham, R. (2021) Lived Experience Leadership – Mapping the Lived
Experience Landscape in Mental Health. London: NSUN
Sonia Bussu & Maria Tullia Galanti (2018) Facilitating coproduction: the
role of leadership in coproduction initiatives in the UK, Policy and
Society, 37:3, 347-367, DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2018.1414355
W. H. Voorberg, V. J. J. M. Bekkers & L. G. Tummers (2015) A Systematic Review of Co-Creation and Co-Production: Embarking on the social innovation
journey, Public Management Review, 17:9, 1333-
1357, DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2014.930505
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Personalisation and Choice
Increasing personalisation and choice
Boardman, J. and Dave, S. (2020) Person-centred care and psychiatry: some key perspectives. 2, London : BJPsych International, 2020, Vol. 17.
DOI:10.1192/bji.2020.21.


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Reducing Restrictive Practice
Changing conceptions of risk as something to be avoided towards working together to improve personal safety
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From involvement to coproduction
User Involvement is replaced by fully resourced coproduction so that the views, experiences and aspirations of people using services and their family members are accorded the same value as the views of staff in the organisation
http://www.wecoproduce.com/product.page/the_art_of_coproduction
(guerriilla guide to coproduction, 2021)
W. H. Voorberg, V. J. J. M. Bekkers & L. G. Tummers (2015) A Systematic Review of Co-Creation and Co-Production: Embarking on the social innovation
journey, Public Management Review, 17:9, 1333-1357, DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2014.930505


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Transforming the Workforce
Maximising the value of lived experience including the widespread development of the Peer Support Workforce
Marks,J., Foster,R., Gibson,S., Simpson, A et al (2021) Development of a peer support intervention to improve the experience and outcomes of discharge from inpatient mental health care: the role of experiential knowledge in a coproduced approach. BMC Research Notes Gillard, S.Peer support in mental health services: where is the research taking us, and do we want to go there?,Journal of Mental Health,1080/09638237.2019.1608935
Voronka, J. (2017) Voronka, Jijian (2017) Turning Mad Knowledge into Affective Labor: The Case of the Peer Support Worker. American Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 2, pp. 333-338.
Faulkner, A. (2021) PRINCIPLED WAYS OF WORKING: PEER SUPPORT IN SUSSEX Learning from a local partnership London: NSUN
MacNeil, C. and Mead S (2005), A Narrative Approach to Developing Standards for Trauma-Informed Peer Support, American Journal of Evaluation
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1098214005275633
Mead S. and Filson, B. Becoming part of each other’s narratives: Intentional Peer Support, In J. Russo & A. Sweeney (Eds.), Searching for a rose garden: Challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies. PCCS Books. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-
09162-005
Mead, S., & MacNeil, C. (2006). Peer support: What makes it unique? International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 10(2),
29–37.
Penney, D (2018) Defining “Peer Support”: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research, Advocates for Human Potential US https://www.ahpnet.com/AHPNet/media AHPNetMediaLibrary/White%20Papers/DPenney_Defining_peer_support_2018_Final.pdf
Penney, D., & Prescott, L. (2016). The co-optation of survivor knowledge: The danger of substituted values and voice.In J. Russo & A. Sweeney (Eds.), Searching for a rose garden: Challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies (p. 35–45). PCCS Books.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-09162-005
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Staff Wellbeing
Supporting staff to cope effectively with the stressors that are inevitable in working in mental health services


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Supporting people to achieve their life goals
Prioritisation of life goals supporting community engagement and development
Kretzman, J.P., and McKnight, J.L. (1993) Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets . Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University.
Communities and health | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Asset_Based_Community_Development.pdf (nesta.org.uk)