Lived experience

Environmental scan: Lived experience engagement and participation

The National Mental Health Commission has been undertaking a program of work to strengthen our capability for meaningful engagement with mental health consumers and carers, families and kinship groups.  

While engagement with lived experience has been a core aspiration of the Commission since our establishment in 2012, we recognise that we can improve the ways we engage with consumers and carers to be more purposeful and effective.  

To strengthen our capability in engaging with lived experience expertise, the Commission has funded a review of current approaches and emerging practice developments related to lived experience engagement and participation within public sector contexts. This was conducted by Lived Experience consultant Carrie Lumby.

The Commission is publishing this environmental scan in the interests of sharing the contemporary knowledge base and as part of our ongoing process of seeking to build capability for more purposeful and effective lived experience engagement and participation.  

You can view and download the environmental scan below.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Commission acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands throughout Australia.
We pay our respects to their clans, and to the elders, past and present, and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community.

Diversity

The Commission is committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of health services. The Commission welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Lived Experience

We acknowledge the individual and collective contributions of those with a lived and living experience of mental ill-health and suicide, and those who love, have loved and care for them. Each person’s journey is unique and a valued contribution to Australia’s commitment to mental health suicide prevention systems reform.