Key messages
- The Lived Experience Branch is working with lived and living experience sector partners to develop a Lived and Living Experience Leadership Strategy.
- The 10-year strategy will set out the Victorian Government’s policy context and strategic approach to the LLE workforce and leadership development in state-funded mental health and wellbeing and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) systems, including harm reduction and suicide prevention and response.
- The purpose of the strategy is to enable and embed system-wide leadership and involvement of people with lived and living experience.
The Lived and Living Experience (LLE) Leadership strategy will be the first of its kind in Victoria. It will bring together diverse LLE perspectives in collaboration with the department to develop a collective vision and roadmap for system-wide LLE leadership, partnerships, and workforces.
The 10-year strategy focuses on system outcomes for LLE leadership and workforce, which will support broader mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Victorian consumers, families, carers, and supporters.
What will the strategy describe?
The strategy will describe:
- the vision for LLE leadership, workforces and partnership
- strategic directions and conditions required for LLE leadership and partnership
- a framework for monitoring and achieving progress towards our vision aligned with the Outcomes and Performance Framework
- definitions, principles, values and models of LLE and LLE leadership
- ideal future state for LLE leadership and workforces, recommendations for enablers to support LLE leadership and partnership
- an implementation plan.
What will inform the strategy?
- an LLE-led analysis of the Royal Commission interim and final reports;
- scoping work for organisational supports required to embed LLE leadership;
- an LLE-led literature review of LLE workforces, partnership and leadership;
- an environmental scan and gap analysis of current LLE workforces, leadership, and partnerships across in-scope systems and services.
How will Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LLE be embedded?
The Lived Experience Branch has engaged the Indigenous Lived Experience Centre to partner on the project and embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LLE perspectives in the strategy and implementation plan. This includes creating an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community engagement plan to support strategy development. Further community engagement will occur in 2024.
Where is the strategy development up to?
- The LLE-led environmental scan engaged with 115 diverse stakeholders and organisations across mental health, AOD and harm reduction.
- The department has engaged 14 LLE technical experts, through the Self-Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC), to support strategy development.
- Core elements of the strategy, including a draft vision, and draft strategic directions and outcomes have been developed in consultation with sector partners.
- Further stakeholder testing and development of the strategy’s draft vision and strategic directions is happening in 2024. Its purpose is to ensure the strategy will be relevant, representative, and achievable for those who will use it.
- This will include diverse LLE communities, LLE workforces; LLE-led organisations, service delivery organisations; and system stewards and entities with a role in embedding LLE in the reformed system, including the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission and the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
How can I get involved?
Stakeholder engagement and testing is underway, ahead of broader consultation IN late 2024. If you would like to be involved in the consultation, please email livedexperiencebranch@health.vic.gov.au.
Reviewed 17 October 2024