A Vision for Change details a comprehensive mental health service delivery model for Ireland. It describes a framework for building and promoting positive mental health across the whole community and for providing accessible, community-based specialist services for people with mental illness (HSE, 2012). It focuses on a person-centred approach to therapy, which looks at each element through an integrated care plan for service users, with a particular emphasis on the involvement of service users, their families and carers at each level of processing. Getting involved in mental health services is about more than just the service user being diagnosed or seeking advice, they need to be at the center of decision making. This is an integral part of recovery because they have a very unique insight into the experiences of mental health issues and are more aware of the public perception and, in some cases, the stigma associated with mental illness. As the latter can lead to social exclusion, the importance of service user views in the formulation of Vision for Change policy is clear and is manifested through the inclusion of users at all levels of the process ( Vision for Change, 2006. Pg 24). .A Vision for Change provides a model for service user participation in mental health services. This pyramid-type framework shows that users and caregivers must participate at all levels of the system. It is important that they are active partners in their own recovery and the model demonstrates this through the progression of levels. Firstly, at the individual level – the user and carer involved in their own care planning process, at the community level – advocacy services available to users and carers to provide education and training. This level, I think, is particularly important, as while...... middle of article......(1993) Psychiatrists in primary care: the general practitioner's view. Family Practice, 5, 111-115. Turner, D. (2000). Mapping the roads to recovery. Mental health today. July, p. 29-30. Turner, D. (2000). The National Voices Forum: the conference on taking back control. Oxford: National Voices Forum and UK Advocacy Network. Van Tosh, E. (1993). Working for change: employment of consumers/survivors in the design and delivery of services to homeless and intellectually disabled people. Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Health Services. Whitehill, I. (2003). The concept of recovery. In: Barker, PJ (ed.). Psychiatric and mental health nursing: the profession of caring. London: Arnold. (6), p. 43-49World Health Organization (2003). Advocacy for mental health. Accessed November 3, 2013 from http://www.who.int/mental_health/resources/en/Advocacy.pdf