A Life in the Day: Volume 2 Issue 4

Editorial

Bob Grove

Adventures With Social Firms in Spain

Annette Hamilton

A year ago, Annette Hamilton left Network Arts in Lewisham to manage a social firm development programme in Spain. She is bilingual and, in addition to working in mental health…

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment in Germany: Principles, Practice and Evaluation

Christiane Haerlin, Alfred Meier

This paper was presented to the 6th European Congress on Research in Rehabilitation, 31 May‐4 June 1998 in Berlin. It reflects the fact that, in Germany, there is a more…

Workschemes, Social Enterprises and Co‐operatives in Greece

Maria Fafalios‐Dragonas

A large part of this paper is based on a presentation by Maria Fafalios‐Dragonas at the International Conference on Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, ‘Bridging the…

Mental Health Forward Thinking: Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

‘A day in the life’ in this issue is by a group of friends who attend Minders, a social services day centre in Bournemouth. Heather has known Wendy and Jonathan for seven years…

Community Pathways: A Joint Black Country Mental Health Trust and Sandwell College Project to Encourage Participation in Education

Tracey Austin, Liam Dolan

We plan to include in each future issue something on opportunities in education. This time, Tracey Austin and Liam Dolan write about an unusual partnership between a college and a…

Helping Users and Survivors to Tell Their Own Stories

Clare Jeffery

How often have you felt angry about media representations of mental health service users? How many letters have you written about the way stories in the media distort and…

Three User‐Led Initiatives

Adam Pozner

In this issue, we profile three very different user‐led initiatives: a thriving user forum in Kent (FURST) involved in a wide range of local activities; the European Network of…

Italians Impressed by UK Co‐operatives

David Parker

From time to time, A life in the day will include snippets of information about events or new initiatives which we think may inspire our readers to find out more. In this issue is…