Learning opportunities at our Recovery Academy
GMMH's Recovery Academy was launched in 2013 and has become a highly regarded and well-established education and training facility. The overarching aim of GMMH’s Academy is to provide everyone: service users, families, and carers, as well as professionals, with the learning opportunities they need to be able to manage and promote good mental health and wellbeing.
At the heart of the Academy, you will find our core values that support an empowering, inclusive, and educational approach to recovery. This includes ensuring that there is co-production at every level, meaning all our resources are co-produced and co-delivered by professionals and people with lived experience. This ensures both professional expertise and lived experience are recognised with equal importance and promotes shared learning.
The Academy offers face to face courses, with two prospectus’ every year and over 65 courses available across Bolton, Salford, Trafford, and Manchester. With our 17th prospectus just released we are more excited than ever to continue growing and this includes an expansion of our course availability which will see courses located within Wigan from October 2021.
Although we do not have any courses available right now in Wigan, we do have a vast range of electronic resources for our students to access in the meantime. This includes, videos, e-learning packages, self-help materials and radio podcasts.
All of our products focus on supporting people around recovery from mental health difficulties and addiction and can be useful if you are looking to increase your knowledge and understanding, improve your wellbeing or support someone else’s, or you simply want to learn something new.
The Academy is free to join and available to:
- Anyone who is experiencing mental health or substance misuse problems.
- Their supporters (family, friends and loved ones).
- GMMH staff members, volunteers, and students on placement.
- Any Health Care Professionals.
To become a registered student of GMMH Recovery Academy, check out our full range of available support and book onto a course visit our website at www.gmmh.nhs.uk/recovery.
If you need to contact the Recovery Academy team directly, please do so via email recoveryacademy@gmmh.nhs.uk or telephone 0161 358 1771.
