Who we are
A collaboration of mental health professionals with years of experience working within the NHS and Private sector, all with a passion to bring an understanding of the social antecedents of poor mental health, in improving services for citizens who need to use mental health services.
Our Mission
To inform and empower mental health and non mental health professionals to make a meaningful and positive difference in the lives of citizens who use or are interested mental health services.
Our Vision
To radically change the experience of citizens who use mental health services by creating spaces where people recover.
Our Founder
LaReo Riviere
A Senior Social Worker, LaReo is an advanced mental health practitioner who has over 20 years’ experience in delivering and managing front line mental health services. LaReo has a particular academic interest in the intersection of race, culture and mental health. Over the years he has spent many years teaching and training in undergraduate and postgraduate spaces and has developed a true passion for working with professionals to improve systems from within. At Mental Capacity Building, LaReo has brought together his clinical experience, strategic know-how and passion for teaching to lead an organisation committed to providing dynamic and transformative mental health training programmes.