Peter Millar Email & Phone Number

Glasgow

I established Aspire Housing & Personal Development Services in May, 2002; working full-time here since April 2005.Aspire provides developmental support, working to enhance the personal qualities, capabilities and skills that individuals too often under-estimate. Based on lengthy experience, we believe that people are greater than they think they are and our role is to help them to recognise this and positively work towards having Better Futures.

Scotland, Hq Based In Glasgow

Founded The Richmond Fellowship as a Scottish Charity in 1993 with 2 small services in Glasgow. 12 years later we had services in 28 Scottish Local Authority areas and had become the largest Third Sector community care Services Provider organisation in Scotland.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Established & managed a Contracts Team responsible for setting up Contracts with a wide range of Third Sector organisations to enable the delivery of community-based services aiding Psychiatric & Learning Disabilities Hospital Closure programme in Greater Glasgow.Established the Greater Glasgow Hospital Discharge & After-Care Protocol for vulnerable people leaving psychiatric hospitals in Greater GlasgowEstablished the first multi-Agency Community Mental Health Teams in Greater Glasgow

Glasgow

Responsible for Psychiatric Hospital & Out-Patient Social Work Services in East Glasgow.Also responsible for leading the conceptualisation, design and managing the establishment of the first Home Support & Day/Evening Activities support service for Individuals with serious mental health issues in the UK (known as the 'Crescent Project') under the auspices of the Greater Easterhouse Mental Health Pilot Project. This provided support to Individuals in ordinary mainstream tenancies, albeit using extraordinary levels of support when required, as an alternative to congregating people in a range of traditional 'Supported Accommodation' facilities. It thus totally avoided 'processing' people through a series of institutional hurdles and met their aspirations to live in their own homes.It also solely used mainstream community day/evening facilities such as Community Centres, Leisure & Recreation Centres, Community Education facilities, Colleges, Tenants Halls, Churches facilities, cinemas, restaurants, pubs, etc. in an integrative approach that sought to make greatest use of the types of valued services enjoyed by the general public and by doing so, enhanced the confidence, self-esteem and social and practical skills of Supported Individuals - and correspondingly, the ways in which they were viewed by the general public, i.e. as fellow citizens co-residing in their local communities. The Crescent Project was a great success.

Msc Mental Health Social Work; (University Of Leeds, Dept Of Psychiatry), Social Work & Mental Health

Dip Social Work; Cqsw, Social Work