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 University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ 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 University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.
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.
