Lived-Living Experience Charter

In partnership with the Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network (LELAN), we are co-designing a charter about how we will partner with people with lived-living experience of mental illness, alcohol and other drug use, and suicidality.

The charter will be co-designed with people with lived-living experience and their families, carers and kin, sector leaders and Commission staff.

Why this is important

The Commission is going through an immense period of growth and has increased responsibility for system reform and transformation.

The perspectives of people with lived-living experience are critical to system reform and we are committed to including and embedding of lived-living experience and expertise at every level and across all aspects of our work.

Developing the charter is an important step to ensure people with lived-living experience of mental illness, harms from alcohol and other drug use, and suicidality, including their families, carers, kin and other supporters, are engaged in system reform. This includes in policy, planning, funding, service delivery and governance.

What we are doing

The development of the Charter will involve a range of activities, including:

An online webinar

A webinar was held on 1 August 2024 about our approach to developing the charter. People with lived-living experience and their families, carers, kin and supporters, stakeholders, sector leaders, and community members were invited to participate. Thank you to all who joined us for the webinar and your feedback. If you were unable to join us at the webinar and are interested in taking part in this work, a recording is available. Questions from the session have also been compiled and are available here.

Co-design survey

Our online survey on the charter development co-design process is now open.

The survey is anonymous, open to all and aims to get your input into how we partner with people with lived-living experience of mental illness, harms from alcohol and other drug use, and suicidality in system reform.

Complete the survey

The survey closes Thursday 22 August 2024.

The survey findings will be  presented  at the co-design sessions to guide conversation and the results will also be shared at the consolidation session on 3 October 2024.

Lived-living experience co-design sessions

To develop the charter, we will facilitate a number of co-design sessions in partnership with LELAN with people with lived-living experience of mental illness, harm from alcohol and other drug use, and suicidality along with their families, carers and kin at the following times and locations:

People with lived-living experience of mental illness, harm from alcohol and other drug use, and suicidality who would like to participate in the co-design process are invited to submit an Expression of Interest by Friday 16 August 2024.

Submit an Expression of Interest for co-design session/s

You will be notified of the outcome of the EOI process by 20 August 2024. Eligible participants in the lived-living co-design sessions will  be paid through the Commission’s Paid Participation policy

Sector leader co-design sessions

Sector leaders in the area of lived-living expertise will be invited to attend in-person co-design sessions.

Consolidation session

 People who did the survey and people who participated in the co-design sessions  will be invited to attend an online consolidation session on Thursday 3 October 2024. This session will outline what was heard from the survey and during the co-design sessions that will inform the development of the charter.

How does this support reform

This project aligns with key priorities and actions under Shifting minds 2023-2028, Achieving balance 2022-2027 and Every life Phase Two 2019-2029.

Next steps

Following the co-design activities and consolidation session, a draft charter will be developed and provided to co-design session participants for feedback. This page will continue to be updated as this work progresses, but you are also welcome to get in touch with us to hear more about this work via summit@qmhc.qld.gov.au.