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Resource Centre

This is a selection of resources that maybe useful in thinking about user involvement. We have only listed publications that you can access for free via the web. If you have come across other useful material, please let us know so that we can add it to the list.

Getting started

In this section you'll find information that could be useful to you if you and/or your organsiation are new to user involvement - for example, information about the principles of user involvement, as well as some user involvement strategies.

Recruiting and supporting service users and staff

In this section you'll find information that may be useful if you're recruiting a member of user involvement staff. You'll also find information about recruiting service users, and about how to support people once you've recruited them. Finally, there's a section on promoting diversity.

Supporting user involvement

In this section you'll find information about how to support user involvement within an organisation - this includes information about policies and training.

Methods for involving people

In this section we've included some information and links about different ways to involve people.

Evaluation and monitoring

In this section you'll find information that will help you to monitor and /or evaluate user involvement within an organisation. You'll also find some examples of evaluations that have been undertaken.

Stories of involvement

This section contains stories of how some of our member organisations have developed and supported service user involvement.

Further information and links

Other useful links, organisations and reports.