Peer Support for Women Living with Mental Health Issues: The views of ACT women, 2011
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Peer support for women living with mental health issues: The views of ACT Women
Laura Pound, Kate Judd and Jenni Gough
September 2011

In 2007 the Women‘s Centre for Health Matters (WCHM) consulted women in the ACT living with mental health issues. They highlighted that they are seeking: to support each other at vulnerable times, access to social support at times when services are not available to them, and gender specific or women centred services. Given that peer support does not use a medical framework but a focus on relationships, it was hypothesised that peer support may be an appropriate model to address the needs of women and to address gaps in their support systems and recovery processes. There was little specific research available and none specific to the ACT.

It is for these reasons that research was commissioned by WCHM with funding from the ACT Health Promotion Grants Program to carry out this research in 2009-11, with the involvement of a consortium of partners across the ACT. The aim of the research was to identify and document best practice peer support models internationally, nationally and locally; to identify and document the needs and experiences of women participating in peer support in the ACT; and to evaluate two peer support programs for women in the ACT based on the research findings concerning best practice.

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