A survivor – led evaluation of a survivor-led service

2004 Conference

This workshop will present some information about the evaluation of the Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service carried out by the team, under the following headings:

Training: a developmental approach was taken to training to take into account the previous experience and skills of all team members;

Mutual support and teamwork: we shall explore the issues we considered in working together and supporting each other in carrying out the evaluation;

Interviewing: we shall explore the ethical issues we discussed about how to interview people (often based on our own experiences of being interviewed), and some of the practical issues that we needed to address.

It is not easy to fit this project into one single theme! But we have chosen to address `undertaking research’ in order to explain what we did and how we did it, as well as enabling workshop members to hear about a survivor-led approach to an evaluation.

With thanks to the Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service, who funded the evaluation.