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Celebrating Black History Month: Honoring the legacy and joy of Black communities

This Black History Month, Co-Production Collective wants to celebrate members of our community and some of the brilliant contributions and achievements they have made to our work.

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July Team Update: Collaborating for success

The latest news from the team and our community plus updates about our ongoing projects and upcoming opportunities.

August 7, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Bringing compassion, responsibilities and co-production into story collecting and story telling: perspectives from Peer Working

Insights from the recent Peer Worker Community of Excellence event and workshops on 9 May in Islington, where sessions were themed around values in peer and lived experience work, sharing experience through stories and career development.

August 5, 2024
January 29, 2025
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The transformative journey through Co-Production from the inside out

In this blog team member, Siobhan mentions her challenging lived experiences, describes her involvement in the Measuring Success Programme and explains what happens when we stop looking at life through the lens of our story and co-produce by simply being our authentic selves.

August 5, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Your feedback needed to help develop and improve our Co-Pro Cuppas

Our Co-Pro Cuppas are monthly informal sessions for collaboration and idea-sharing. Please share your feedback about why you choose to come or not to our Co-Pro Cuppas, and if there is anything we can do to improve them.

August 5, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Co-creating arts-based tools with children for mental health and resilience

This blog discusses the Nkwihoreze project in Rwanda, where children and young people co-create culturally appropriate tools and resources to facilitate intergenerational dialogue and provide psychosocial support to families affected by the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.

July 1, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Help us shape an introduction session to LinkedIn for our community

As we are developing our new website, we are also looking for better ways to stay in touch with out community. Get involved and help us co-produce an introduction session to LinkedIn!

June 24, 2024
January 29, 2025
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June Team Update: Building on meaningful conversations

The latest news from the team and our community plus updates about our ongoing projects and upcoming opportunities.

June 14, 2024
January 29, 2025
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May Team Update: Making connections and developing relationships

The latest news from the team and our community plus updates about our ongoing projects and upcoming opportunities.

June 7, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Diving in: Reflections on evaluating ourselves

With our eight Measuring Success in Co-production project teams onboard and their projects under way, members of the Measuring Success in Co-production co-ordinating team share their experiences of working together to evaluate their own co-production approaches.

May 31, 2024
January 29, 2025
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Measuring Success: Closing the Loop Beyond the Loop…

In this blog, Gemma Evans and Johnny Valavanis introduce a project they are working on as part of the Measuring Success in Co-Production Programme and ask for your help in providing insights about co-production from within the mental health sector from a lived experience perspective.

May 31, 2024
January 29, 2025