- increased peer worker involvement in the co-design of adapted services 
- increasing the number of peer workers involved in service delivery
- decision makers must commit to maintaining adequate mental health service provision for current and future needs

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Users of mental health services and their families need to feel empowered to take ownership of their healing journey, especially now when service access is limited and face-to-face contact is often unavailable. Therefore, service users should be centrally involved in the development of mental health-care services and systems, and the renewed discussion of racial inequalities and inequalities in the availability of adequate and adapted health-care access can be viewed as a way to further encourage such involvement

Service user knowledge and involvement for sustainable adaptations of mental health delivery

Moreno, C., Wykes, T., Galderisi, S., Nordentoft, M., Crossley, N., Jones, N., Cannon, M., Correll, C., Byrne, L., Carr, S., Chen, E., Gorwood, P., Johnson, S., Kärkkäinen, H., Krystal, J., Lee, J., Lieberman, J., López-Jaramillo, C., Männikkö, M., Phillips, M., Uchida, H., Vieta, E., Vita, A. and Arango, C., 2020. How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Psychiatry. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30307-2

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