Recovery Camp is a person-centred, recovery-focused initiative which invites individuals with a lived experience of mental illness to participate in a five-day therapeutic recreation camp in the Australian bush.
Recovery Camp
The five-day camp is conducted by ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp mental health nursing and education academics and a person with lived experience of mental illness.
Camp activities can include a giant swing, high ropes course, rock climbing, a flying fox, bush dancing, art and craft, and trivia.
Recovery Camp brings together people with a lived experience of mental illness and students/future health professionals from the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp.
Students from nursing, psychology, dietetics, paramedicine, midwifery, nutrition and exercise physiology attend camp, allowing them to experience mental health care and treatment that is community-based and recovery-oriented, valuing the lived experience and placing consumers in the driving seat. For Nursing students, the experience can count as a mental health clinical placement as part of their degree.
The program is now held at iAccelerate exploring its potential as a social enterprise.
