Current project
Lived & Living Experience Workforce (LLEW) Development Program
Finishing date: 30 May 2024.
This project aims to realise authorised, supported and sustainable LLEWs in public mental health and AOD services by investing in existing or developing new workforce development projects.
Background
The LLEWs development program 2022‐24 involves supporting existing or developing new projects to realise authorised, supported and sustainable LLEWs in public mental health and AOD services. The program is informed/seeks to build on the many decades of activism and advocacy by the mental health consumer workforce, AOD consumer workforce, mental health family/carer workforce, and AOD family/carer workforce, people with lived and living experience of trauma, mental health challenges, suicide, substance use or addiction, and their families, carers, and supporters, advocates, and allies. The program also recognises the different needs and perspectives within individual LLEW disciplines as well as between them. The implication of this is that while some agendas are shared/common among LLEWs, this diversity needs to be acknowledged and supported through the program.
It is an expectation of the program that co‐design opportunities will be sought wherever possible.
The follow Lived and Living Experience (LLE) led agencies/organisations engaged with LLEWs will be involved in leading individual projects:
Program principles
The LLEW Development Program will be guided by the following principles:
- Builds on existing work
- Promotes sustainability
- Is led by agencies with expertise, capability, capacity and sector reach
- Ensures lived and living experience leadership
- Respects integrity and identity of each discipline
- Offers choice and flexibility
The LLEW Development Program embeds the following ways of working:
- Co‐production and Co‐design
- Collaboration and sharing across partners
- Share knowledge and engage across settings and sectors
- Strengthen partnership with govt, services and lead agencies
- Design initiatives to ensure accountability
- Transparency around decision making and communication