Mental Health Consumer and Carer Leadership
Related Knowledge and Initiatives

“Persons with lived experience of recovery need to occupy senior leadership roles impacting social policy, system management, planning, education, program development, and evaluation.”

Byrne, L., Stratford, A., & Davidson, L. (2018). The global need for lived experience leadership

“Effective engagement and participation is about shared control and decision-making within a partnership, where all parties are committed to that sharing.”

The National Mental Health Commission

“Co-production includes all phases of work from co-planning, co-designing, co-delivering through to co-evaluating.”

Dr Cath Roper, Consumer Academic, of Centre for Psychiatric Nursing, University of Melbourne

“The Lived Experience workforce is not limited to recovery peer support work, it can include management, advocacy; representation; consultancy. advisory work; health promotion; to education; training; supervision; auditing and research.”

National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum

“Conducting research that actively involves people with lived experience in the process moves research from being done for people with health conditions to being done with or by these groups.”

Dr Michelle Banfield, ANU Lived Experience Research Unit

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