ive service users have been awarded with peer mentor certificates at a ceremony held in Colston Fort in Bristol.

Peer mentors support and advise service users by sharing their lived experiences and first-hand knowledge to promote recovery. They communicate on a level that staff are unable to.

The service users from Bristol Autism Specialised Service (BASS) and Pathfinders completed all elements of a six week training package. The training was delivered by clinicians and included safeguarding, listening skills, drug and alcohol awareness, lone working, personality disorder awareness and autism awareness