Beacon Voice

Beacon has recently established Beacon Voice, an internal organisational forum of service users. The aim of Beacon Voice is to give service users a ‘voice’ within the organisation.

Beacon Voice enables people to:

- Share views, experiences and opinions in order to influence the policy, direction and future planning of services within Beacon.
- Enhance and develop communication between service users at all levels, between service users and staff, and between service users and the Niamh Board.
- Monitor and review service user involvement within Beacon.
- Monitor the implementation of the Beacon strategic objectives.
- Assist in the promotion of the Beacon Social Care Model for Flourishing Mental Health.
- Assist with the development of training initiatives for service users.
- Organise events to promote service user involvement.
- Promote service user involvement within Beacon and in other organisations.
- Influence policy and lobbying within Government and local areas.

Beacon Voice meetings are held quarterly and all Beacon service users are welcome to become involved in this new Forum

Uel's Poem (September 2009)