Influence
By gathering real life insights, we collect feedback and stories from people with lived experience of mental health challenge.
How Can You Get Influenced
This ensures that the voices of those directly affected inform decisions about service design and delivery. This process ensures that policy and practice changes are grounded in real life needs rather than assumptions.
Participate in focus groups to consider proposed changes or developments in mental health services, ensuring that community perspectives shape outcomes and change that will affect them in their communities.
By amplifying the voices of people with lived experience, Lanarkshire Links ensures representation in planning and decision-making processes within health and social care systems.
From our engagement with you we are able to compile and share real-life feedback and lived-experience insights to inform service providers about existing service gaps and areas for improvement.
Funding ensures vital collective advocacy, training, and engagement opportunities continue, fostering inclusion, resilience, and recovery across Lanarkshire while amplifying voices often left unheard.
Lanarkshire Links is a peer-led mental health organisation dedicated to empowering individuals with lived experience. We provide collective advocacy, training, and community engagement that reduce stigma, promote recovery, and strengthen wellbeing across Lanarkshire
Useful Links
Participation and engagement means that people can be involved in the decisions that affect them, making Scotland a more inclusive, sustainable and successful place. The Scottish Government (March 2024)
Each local authority has a responsibility to ensure that people who use services are able to be involved in discussions and decisions around the support they need.
South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership’s
Participation and Engagement Strategy – Click to download
University Health & Social Care Partnership North Lanarkshire’s
Engagement & Participation Strategy – Click to download
Scottish Government’s
Participation Strategy – Click to download
