The Queensland Mental Health Select Committee’s Inquiry into the Opportunities to Improve Mental Health Outcomes for Queenslanders (2022), informed the Better Care Together funded Lived-Living Experience ‘work package’, via recommendation 54 – Expand and regulate Queensland’s lived experience (peer) workforce. This recommendation suggested the Queensland Government progresses work to develop Queensland’s lived experience (peer) workforce, including:
a) the standardisation and regulation of the lived experience workforce
b) the evaluation and quality assurance of lived experience professional training and development.
c) works with rural and remote mental health and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) services to develop and support lived experience practitioner roles in rural and remote communities
d) increases the number of lived experience (peer) service roles in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
e) investigates ways to encourage the uptake of lived experience roles by working to remove barriers, for example providing scholarships and reducing TAFE costs for requisite qualifications.
The Queensland Government provided funding through Better Care Together, for development of the Queensland Community sector Lived-Living Experience (LLE) workforce. The Queensland Mental Health Commission (the Commission) are the administrators of this ‘work package’ funding.
Recipients of the Lived-Living Experience Workforce Grants
