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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 1h

Congratulations @MHCC_NSW on a decade of transformative workforce development.

zurl.co/GU0q1
#PeerWork #LivedExperience

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 1h

10 years of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work:

📊 1,148 enrolments
🎓 1,077 scholarships awarded
👥 Consumer peer workers now 2nd largest workforce group in NSW CMOs (12.3%)

This is what structural change looks like when lived experience is properly valued.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 4d

Whether you're navigating anxiety yourself or supporting someone who is, your experience shapes better research.

Closes 9 November.

zurl.co/h8tO4

🙏🙏 Please share with others who may be able to contribute.

#socialmediaresearch #mentalhealthadvocacy #livedexperience

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 4d

Not the usual "phones are ruining us" panic, but genuine exploration of patterns: the 2am doom scrolling, the fear of missing out mixed with fear of being seen, the way exhaustion and anxiety feed each other.

Survey takes about 15 minutes.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 4d

We're working with @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @qutdmrc.bsky.social for research into social media, sleep and anxiety - and we need perspectives from people who've actually lived this.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Register to attend ONLINE >> zurl.co/QFnpX

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

The discussion will be followed by an opportunity to network and talk one to one with our panelists and BEING staff over afternoon tea, served in the Fountain Court.

Click one of the links below to book your free place.

Register to attend IN PERSON >> zurl.co/4VTEt

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Lismore flood response team.

The event will be moderated by BEING CEO Giancarlo de Vera who is personally invested in this topic having advocated at the United Nations for a disability inclusive approach to governments’ climate action response.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Annie Monks - A multi generational, Northerner Rivers queer, aboriginal woman, Annie is a mental health clinician at the Medicare mental health centre in Lismore and has worked in the Byron Bay MHU - “Tuckeroo.” In 2022, Annie volunteered as a mental health peer worker for the

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Butch Young - A 20 year veteran mental health consumer advocate and peer worker, Butch was appointed Mental Health Commander at the Bateman’s Bay Hanging Rock evacuation centre during the Black Summer bushfires of 2019

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Nirvana Talukder – law student, youth climate activist, member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and School Strike for Climate Change organiser

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Blanche Verlie – Sydney Environment Institute (University of Sydney), Blanche is a multidisciplinary social scientist whose work focuses on climate change including how policy negligence and gaslighting by political leaders contribute to climate injustice

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Amanda Cohn MLC – Greens spokesperson for mental health and chair of the 2023 NSW Government inquiry into the “Equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in NSW”

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Representing a broad range of perspectives as well as immense experience in the fields of: politics, research, activism and mental health lived experience, the panelists are:

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

- what do we need to do to mitigate the impacts if we are to avoid a catastrophic impact on our collective mental health?

The Panelists

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

its theme for Mental Health Day 2025.

This discussion panel will explore:
- the links between climate change and mental health
- how have recent floods, droughts and bushfires impacted mental health?
- why is this of such concern and are what the implications?

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

The impact of climate anxiety and disaster exposure on our mental health, particularly that of young people, warrants deeper and more urgent attention, and is perhaps why the @WFMH World Federation for Mental Health identified “Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies” as

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

When: Friday 17 October 2025, 1:00pm-3:00pm AEDT
Where: NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney & online

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 6d

Our colleagues at @BEING - Mental Health Consumers in NSW are hosting a special panel discussion as part of Mental Health Month.

We are sharing this information as provided by them.

Climate Change and Mental Health - “A Ticking Timebomb?”

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 7d

Join NEDC’s National Strategy Forum: Advancing Workforce Development Across the Stepped
System of Care – online, Wed 22 Oct 2025, 1–2pm AEDT. Explore practical tools to
strengthen and sustain the workforce.

Register here:zurl.co/LuMgh

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

About the plan: zurl.co/vASLp
#LivedExperience #MentalHealth #Queensland

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

Whether you've accessed services or supported someone who has, your perspective matters.

Contribute via:
- 10-15 min survey, or
- 2 hr focus group

This is how we ensure reform delivers real change, not just policy documents.

Register: zurl.co/jyaYe

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

Queensland consumers, carers & families - your lived experience is needed for the Better Care Together evaluation.

Ethicol (independent researchers) is assessing QLD Health's mental health & AOD services plan through to 2027.

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Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

The survey will take 30 - 40 minutes of your time, and you will have an opportunity to enter a prize draw for 1 out of 2 Coles/Myer vouchers.

Please scan the QR code or follow the link: zurl.co/AG0Uc

Lived Experience Australia @livedexperienceaus.bsky.social · 8d

Have you worked with a Peer Support Worker (Lived Experience Professional) for mental health support?

Researchers from Curtin University would love to hear about your experience to evaluate what factors can influence client satisfaction.

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