SOLD OUT: Breakfast Event | Realising Reform: Growing the Lived & Living Experience Workforce

This event will be an opportunity to hear from services who are developing their Lived & Living Experience workforce and those working alongside them. What is working well, what challenges and opportunities are arising, and how are these initiatives contributing to a better, more sustainable and more person-centred mental health system.

Date:  Wednesday 27 March 2024

Time:  8:00 - 10:00 am

Venue:  Conversation Quarter, State Library Victoria

Price:  $95 per person  |  Table of 8 people -$650

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March 2024 marks the three-year milestone in transforming the mental health sector following the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. The Royal Commission highlighted the need for lived and living experience to be central to the design and delivery of a transformed mental health system.

This event will be an opportunity to hear from services who are developing their Lived & Living Experience workforce and those working alongside them. What is working well, what challenges and opportunities are arising, and how are these initiatives contributing to a better, more sustainable and more person-centred mental health system. This is a great opportunity to build and grow relationships with colleagues from across the sector, including community mental health, NGOs, acute services, government and the wider community. All staff are welcome to this event! 

We are delighted that the Hon. Ingrid Stitt MP, Minister for Mental Health will join us as we reflect on the change realised to date and consider the work that remains to be done. We will consider the continued work of sector reform, and hear from our discussion panel of community and clinical participants playing an important role in supporting the transformation of Victoria’s mental health sector, particularly in the support and development of the lived and living experience workforce, and consumer and carer leadership.We will also be joined by an amazing panel, consisting of:

• Katie Larsen, Executive Director Lived Experience, Mind Australia
• Rebecca Langman, Director Lived Experience, Alfred Health 
• Associate Professor Simon Stafrace, Alfred Mental & Addiction Health Program Director & Director, Mental Health Victoria
• Kellie O'Callaghan, Chair, Mental Health & Wellbeing Interim Regional Body

Join us for this networking breakfast event to dive deeper into the community and clinical experiences, contribute to the discussion on forward proposals and listen about the ways we can all work together to process the transformation.