Consumer and Carer Engagement and Lived Experience Workforce PHN Commissioned Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Alcohol and other Drugs Services Stocktake 2023

The National PHN Mental Health Lived Experience Engagement Network (MHLEEN) was established and funded by the Department of Health in 2018 to:

• engage with People with a Lived Experience (including carers) in the co-design of systems and processes for commissioning and regional planning,
• promote and build the Lived Experience Workforce, and
• coordinate a National Network of PHNs and other key stakeholders to share and build the capacity of an authentic culture and commitment to consumer and carer engagement and the Lived Experience Workforce

Each year MHLEEN undertakes a stocktake of PHN lived experience engagement activities and Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce development. Findings from the stocktake survey, inclusive of case studies, provide valuable information on PHN progress relative to the above MHLEEN objectives.

Request for Participation by Commissioned Services

As part of its contract with the Department of Health, this year MHLEEN is undertaking a Stocktake of PHN Commissioned Services across Australia. The purpose of this stocktake and survey is to:

• gain national benchmark data on the work being undertaken by commissioned services in primary Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Alcohol and Other Drugs in relation to lived experience engagement and the workforce;
• identify and showcase what’s currently being done, what’s working, what’s not, and how PHNs can further support commissioned services in their lived experience activities, and
• share both qualitative and quantitative information and case studies with all commissioned services, PHNs, and other key stakeholders.

On behalf of MHLEEN we thank you for your contribution to this important piece of work and ask if you would please be able to complete it by:  Monday 19 June 2023.

Paula Arro – Chairperson – MHLEEN

Lived Experience Engagement Coordinator  - Brisbane North PHN 
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