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User-Led Organisations

User-led organisations are entities governed, managed, and driven by individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges or other health conditions. These organisations prioritise the voices and perspectives of those who have directly experienced the challenges and services being addressed. User-led organisations play a crucial role in advocacy, service development, and policymaking to ensure that mental health and other services are person-centred, recovery-oriented, and respectful of the rights and preferences of service users.

A-Way Express

A-Way Express is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience, providing employment, training, and social enterprise opportunities that empower consumers in the mental health community.

Active Minds

Active Minds is a user-led organisation driven by young people with lived experience, empowering peers through advocacy, education, and campus-based initiatives to transform mental health culture.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
(DBSA)

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance is a user-led organisation driven by people with lived experience, providing peer support, education, and advocacy to empower individuals living with mood disorders.

Grow

Grow is a user-led organisation where people with lived experience support one another through structured peer groups, fostering recovery, personal growth, and mutual empowerment.

Intentional Peer Support

Intentional Peer Support is a user-led organisation and practice developed by people with lived experience, focusing on mutual relationships, shared learning, and connection to support personal and collective growth.

Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service (LSLCS)

Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service (LSLCS) is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience, providing crisis support, safe spaces, and peer-led alternatives to traditional mental health services.

McPin Foundation

The McPin Foundation is a user-led organisation driven by people with lived experience, leading mental health research by placing service users at the centre of design, delivery, and impact.

Meeting for Minds

Meeting for Minds is a user-led organisation driven by people with lived experience, fostering connection, peer dialogue, and collaborative learning to support collective mental health and wellbeing.

Mental Health Uganda
(YULU)

Mental Health Uganda (YULU) is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience, advocating for mental health rights, reducing stigma, and providing peer support and community-based initiatives across Uganda.

MindFreedom International

MindFreedom International is a user-led organisation led by people with lived experience, advocating for human rights, dignity, and alternatives to coercive practices in the mental health system.

National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery
(NCMHR)

The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) is a user-led organisation led by people with lived experience, advancing peer support, recovery-oriented services, and systemic advocacy to transform mental health systems.

National Survivor User Network

The National Survivor User Network is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience, amplifying survivor voices and advocating for rights, inclusion, and systemic change in mental health services.

Northeast Independent Living Program

The Northeast Independent Living Program is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience of disability, empowering individuals through peer support, advocacy, and independent living services.

SANE Australia

SANE Australia is a user-led organisation shaped by people with lived experience, providing support, information, and advocacy for individuals affected by complex mental health issues.

Together for Mental Wellbeing

Together for Mental Wellbeing is a user-led organisation shaped by people with lived experience, delivering community-based support, advocacy, and services that promote recovery and independent living.

Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Kenya (USPKenya)

Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Kenya (USPKenya) is a user-led organisation run by people with lived experience, advocating for human rights, dignity, and community-based mental health support across Kenya.

User-led organisations are initiatives designed and run by people with lived experience, placing those directly affected at the centre of decision-making, service delivery, and advocacy. They represent a bottom-up approach to systems change, where lived experience drives more responsive, empowering, and transformative support structures.

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