The Get Going Group: Mutual support In action.

SOCIAL support -- Methodology; CONFIDENCE; MENTAL illness; PEOPLE with mental disabilities; MENTORING; RESILIENCE (Personality trait); SELF-perception; SOCIAL participation; AFFINITY groups; COMMUNITY-based social services

Hackett, Simon; Bourne, Jane

The article discusses the Get Going Group, a community-based group set up by the British National Health Service (NHS) for people with learning disabilities, and its role in providing peer support following discharge from a mental health assessment and treatment facility. It reveals that the Get Going Group aims to boost people's confidence to get in touch with social networks and community groups, and discusses the group's progression cycle of mutual and peer support.