Mind is delighted to announce the appointment of Rana Te Huia as the Lived Experience Service Establishment Manager of Victoria’s first Lived Experience Residential Service.
Rana is already on site in Moolap, in Greater Geelong, overseeing its refurbishment in preparation for its first guests when the innovative new service opens.
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.
Amy Falconer is 22 and has a history of depression and anxiety which was first diagnosed at the age of 12. The Melburnian has accessed a number of Mind-run services over the past decade, is a member of Mind’s Lived Experience Advisory Team and is joining Mind’s Lived Experience Peer Cadet Program.
The importance of peer leadership in LGBTIQA+ mental health was a recurring theme for speakers at Mind Australia’s inaugural ‘Respect in action’ webinar.
Community-managed Step Up Step Down (SUSD) services should play a greater role in New South Wales' mental health system, according to researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience who spoke at the 2026 One Door Mental Health Symposium.
Mind Australia, Ballarat Community Health and Grampians Community Health are delighted to announce the official opening of the Grampians Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect – a centre providing lived experience-led support for family members, carers, kin and other people who support someone experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges.
People in Victoria studying a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work will soon be able to apply for cadetships to gain valuable work experience and kick-start their careers.
Mind Australia has been chosen to operate a new peer-led sub-acute residential mental health service in Victoria Park, Western Australia.
If lived experience workers deliver services but are not equal all the way up to - and including - governance, power does not truly shift.
That was the message from the co-presenters of the 2026 Stratford Lecture at The Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, last week. The full lecture is now available to watch on Youtube.