by Gill Callister, CEO Mind Australia
Do you remember what you were doing at 14? Maybe you were busy making friends or perhaps you were obsessed with the latest pop star (it was David Bowie for me). Navigating adolescence was probably the biggest challenge of your life at the time.
Mind’s Lived Experience Workforce Manager helps bring Mind’s vision for our lived experience workforce to reality.
Newly appointed in the role, Daisy Gleeson will guide staff, leadership teams and stakeholders to develop their competencies in consumer or family and carer perspective, lived and living expertise, and peer work.
Katie Spasojevic is a First Nations Community Mental Health Practitioner at Haven Mooroopna - a long-term social housing and mental health support service near Shepparton, Victoria.
Katie is a proud Yorta Yorta woman and says understanding the cultural identity and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is crucial to their mental health and wellbeing.
Mind Australia will honour the late Anthony Stratford’s immense contribution to the lived experience movement by establishing an annual lecture and scholarship in his name.
Mind Australia leaders have shared insights on how to champion lived and living experience of mental health and wellbeing challenges.