Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health

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Title:	Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health
Author(s):	Barbara Wain
Citation:	Barbara Wain, (2009) "Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health", A Life in the Day, Vol. 13 Iss: 4, pp.25 - 30
Keywords:	12 steps, Changes, Mental health, Recovery
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.1108/13666282200900039 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:	I am proud to be known as an expert by experience in recovery from mental distress, but I am also a co-founder and director of a multi-award winning, peer-led charity called Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health. In the 1980s, after experiencing my third breakdown, I was an extremely angry person because of the lack of cross-sector service provision to assist me in becoming whole again. Thankfully I used my rage to develop, along with my co-founder Dave Wheat, our Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health services to meet the needs of those in mental distress. Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health provides person-focused, recovery-rooted services that aim to promote recovery, enabling people to become contributing members of society again. This is the history of Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health, our achievements and the challenges that we have faced in developing the services that we provide today.