OUR FUTURE

The Our Future project will deliver recommendations for the design and development of an introductory training package intended to support the lived experience workforces in accessing crucial knowledge, skills, and practices essential to their roles.

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As part of this project, we want to better understand the training and support needs of people as they start a new lived experience role. This includes:

• Consumer and family/carer roles

• Paid and volunteer roles, including lived experience representatives on committees or advisory groups

• Roles in Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug sectors

• A focus on your first lived experience role and the training that was or would’ve been beneficial to you in the first 12 months

 

If you would like to contribute your views to this project, please take the survey, or join in on one of our focus groups.

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This project was funded by Mental Health Reform Victoria, and is in response to Recommendation 6* of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.

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This project is lead by the Self-Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC), and is a partnership between:

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• Athena Consumer Workforce Consulting

• Centre for Mental Health Learning (CMHL)

• Centre for Mental Health Nursing (CMHN)

• Carer Lived Experience Workforce (CLEW)

• Self-Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC)

• The Bouverie Centre

• Supported by the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC), Tandem and the Satellite Foundation.

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*Recommendation 6 can be found in Chapter 18 of the Royal Commission’s Interim Report, on pages 515-516 of the pdf.