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Mind Australia is hosting an online event to launch our new lived expertise-led practice and governance approach for the continued innovation of lived experience led service models.
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For nearly 50 years, Mind Australia has been recognised for our commitment to lived experience. It’s central to our history, and it will continue to guide and define us into the future.
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By Cassi Strauss – Mind Australia peer practitioner.
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Mind values the expertise, strengths and skills of people with lived and living experience of mental health challenges, personally or as a family member or carer.
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In this excerpt from the 2026 Stratford Lecture, co guest speakers Rana Te Huia and Magdel Hammond reflect on their e
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Mind Australia congratulates Niharika Hiremath on receiving an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her services to community health as part of this year’s King’s Birthday honours.
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Mind Australia is inviting young people (aged 16 to 24 years) to shape the future of youth mental health services and join the inaugural Mind Youth Lived Experience Advisory Team (Youth LEAT).
The Youth LEAT will be a group that works to privilege the voices of lived experience throughout Mind’s service design and delivery, with a particular emphasis on young people.
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Nearly half of the support staff in Mind Australia’s psychosocial support programs in South Australia are peer practitioners - trained mental health practitioners who have had their own lived experience of mental ill-health.
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It is with mixed emotions that Mind Australia announces that Katie Larsen, our Executive Director of Lived Experience, will soon leave Mind to take up the newly created role of Deputy Commissioner with the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.
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Mind Australia peer cadet Amy Falconer says her cadetship has reaffirmed her desire to become a mental health peer worker.
The 22-year-old is three months into the Lived Experience Peer Cadet Program funded by the Victorian government.