Partner: Dr David Crepaz-Keay, Head of Empowerment and Social Inclusion, Mental Health Foundation.

Preferred contact: dcrepaz-keay@mentalhealth.org.uk

Resident in: UK;

Working in: UK;

Area(s) of Interest in VBP: Policy, Publications, Research/other/Action Research/peer-support, interdependence, Services/other/peer-support, interdependence;

Related Area(s) of Interest: Evidence-based practice, Ethics, Health economics, Other/ Patient and Public Involvement;

Area(s) of healthcare expertise:Mental health, Service user, Social care, Well-being

Brief Description of Work: I have led the development and delivery of self-management courses for people with a severe psychiatric diagnosis across the UK and developed national service user involvement mechanisms in England, Scotland and Wales. A technical advisor to the World Health Organisation on empowerment issues, chaired a WHO working group on developing indicators of empowerment, and have spoken and written widely on involvement, empowerment, self-management and peer support. I co-lead a joint R&D program between the Mental Health Foundation in London and the Oxford University Faculty of Philosophy on co-production. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health hosted by Nottingham University.

Reports and Publications

Working Together 
Co-production, involvement and outcomes in mental ill-health prevention and mental health promotion: report of a scoping study.

https://valuesbasedpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Working-Together.pdf

Read more:
http://www.institutemh.org.uk/ 
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
www.peer-support.info