Support Guides
Become a Lived Experience Peer Support Guide and help your colleagues
get help
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SUPPORTING THE UK BUILDING MATERIALS SUPPLY SECTOR
Train support guides in your business
Equip your team with the skills and confidence to support colleagues safely and responsibly.
Lived Experience Peer Support Guides
Our Lived Experience Peer Support Guides help conversations happen earlier when someone may be struggling. They are not counsellors or therapists. Their role is to listen, reduce stigma, and guide colleagues to the right support either within your business or externally, before problems escaliate into crisis.
Why they matter
Many workplace challenges build quietly, mental health pressures, financial stress, addiction, or personal difficulties.
The people who spend their days together are more likely to notice changes.
Our Lived Experience Peer Support Guides help businesses:
- Encourage earlier conversations
- Reduce stigma around asking for help
- Identify problems before they affect safety, wellbeing or performance
- Guide colleagues to the right support quickly.
Support Guide Training
The Support Yard provides specialist training to ensure you have a specialist Lived Experience Peer Support Guide in your workplace.
Training can be delivered:
– In person
– Live online
– Own pace modules.
It is delivered by people with lived experience from within the industry, making the training practical, relevant and credible.
Our Lived Experience Peer Support Guides also receive:
– Ongoing support and guidance
– Refresher training
– Access to the Support Yard network
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