ReCoCo Social Symposium

Current mental health care and treatment isn’t working for the majority of people who need it. More and more people need help, which is hardly surprising given the state of play, locally, nationally and globally.

Referral rates are through the roof. Exhausted staff are overwhelmed. waiting lists grow longer and longer, the VCSE is on its knees. Nationally, sickness absence is up 55% with mental health taking the lion’s share. North East Suicide and drug/alcohol deaths (Deaths of Despair) are double what they are in London. In 3 years, the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50%; indicating a future landscape that demands very different approaches to what’s available now.

The ReCoCo Symposium will look at what actually works, and can be made available to all. Non-clinical, community approaches, people-powered resilience and resistance to the pressures placed upon them. Enabling people to live their best lives, utilising their hard-earned experience of distress, for good.

Connection, purpose, exercise, day to day coping techniques, nature, music therapy, psychedelic integration.

ReCoCo are helping hundreds of people at our city centre base in Newcastle, and across Newcastle, Gateshead and beyond.

With recognition to how crushing the pressures are out there; we will showcase the most effective and innovative peer led approaches to mental health that have been proven to work.

And to round off the symposium, we have an auction:

Host or Publisher ReCoCo