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Help shape your local mental health and wellbeing educational service

Share your thoughts to help shape a Recovery College

We are inviting all people living and working in Cwm Taf Morgannwg to share your views on a new mental health and wellbeing educational service, known as a Recovery College.

Recovery Colleges are unlike a conventional educational system. Instead, they offer a place to come together and learn from one another through conversation and mutual sharing of knowledge and experiences. They are tailored towards every individual, whether you are looking to learn more about your own mental health and wellbeing challenges or learn how to better support those with mental health and wellbeing challenges.

Anyone can get involved, but this may be especially important to those who may benefit personally or professionally from having a local mental health and wellbeing educational service that is accessible for all, free to engage with and is shaped by the people who will be using it.

Your voice will inform how a new local CTM Recovery College could look in the future, based on what matters to you and others in the community.

What is a Recovery College?

Recovery Colleges provide:

  • Free educational courses on a range of mental health, physical health and wellbeing topics.
  • Workshops and courses that are either held online or in a physical/ in-person space – creating a non-judgemental environment where there is no hierarchy, contributing to a unique shared learning experience from one another in an equal and conversational way.
  • Courses that are created and delivered between those with a lived experience of mental health challenges and a health practitioner with learned knowledge.
  • Courses which are available and accessible for all at any stage of recovery. All courses are self-referral, with no waiting lists and no discharge service.
  • A place that builds connection and values everyone’s experiences and knowledge, equally and equitably.

A Recovery College is guided by the principles of hope, control and opportunity.

Who is a Recovery College for?

  • People with lived/ living experience of mental health challenges. You can be any member of the public in CTM – you do not need to have a diagnosis and do not need to be accessing or have accessed mental health services.
  • Carers, family members and friends supporting those with mental, emotional and physical health challenges.
  • All CTMUHB staff including health care professionals and health practitioners.
  • Third or voluntary sector organisations
  • Arts organisations and individuals working in the Arts or Arts and Health.
  • Public sector workers including education, local authorities and emergency services workforces.
  • All members of the CTM community with an interest in shared educational courses around mental health and wellbeing topics

Have Your Say

There are a number of ways for you to share your thoughts, ideas and to share feedback

  1. Complete a Short Survey

Please help us to shape what a CTM Recovery College could look like for our Cwm Taf Morgannwg region by completing a short survey. All questions are optional to answer, but the more information you can provide the more helpful it will be in learning what matters to you.

  1. Face to Face Engagement Events

Come along to one of our public events planned for March and April. planned:

Bridgend

  • 31st March: 10am – 12.30pm at BAVO (Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations), Maesteg
  • 19th March and 2nd April: 1pm – 3.30pm at Arc Bridgend

Merthyr Tydfil

  • 27th March: 10am – 12.30pm in Trelewis Community Centre
  • 1st April: 10am – 12.30pm at VAMT (Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil)

Rhondda Cynon Taf

  • 25th March: 10am – 12.30pm at YMa, Pontypridd
  • 26th March: 10am – 12.30pm in Pentre Comrades Club
  • 4th April: 10am - 12.30pm at New Horizons, Aberdare
  1. Join an Online Event

Alternatively, you may find it more convenient to attend one of our planned online engagement events, happening on:

  • 12th March: 11am – 12.30pm
  • 3rd April: 5pm – 6.30pm

Use this link to book your ticket for an online event, or email: CTM.MHLD.ServiceEngagement@wales.nhs.uk to book your place.

Further Questions
If you have any questions about our health board plans for a CTM Recovery College, or about the events, please write to us at: CTM.MHLD.ServiceEngagement@wales.nhs.uk.

We hope to speak with you at an event soon!

21/02/2025