The National Youth Lived Experience Reference Group of the ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Program aims is to embed youth lived experience of the mental health system and mental health concerns in every aspect and phase of the Program to ensure that we achieve our objectives and to ensure that the Program is sustainable in the long term.
Overview
The purpose of the National Youth Lived Experience Reference Group is to:
Provide youth lived experience expertise across all phases of the Program including:
- Workshop design to ensure accessibility for young people with lived experience.
- Advising on ensuring accessibility of the program for young people with lived experience (Evaluation, modelling, participatory action research, etc)
- Advising on lived experience to support questions within local modelling processes that can’t be explained locally.
Be a key link between and across ‘Right care, first time where you live’ Program sites to share learnings for implementation and sustainability by sharing and exploring learnings from each site.
Provide strategic advice to ensure that the ‘Right care, first time where you live’ Program will deliver relevant, informed, and accessible youth-focused content. This includes the production and development of youth-focused communications material.
Membership
The group will be comprised of young people (16-30) who have lived experience of a mental health concern, who have been involved with the regional implementation of the ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Program at one of the eight Program sites. Two young people from each Program site will be selected to join the reference group. The process for appointing members will be through expressions of interest from the young people who have been involved with the implementation of the Program at each site. Individuals who have demonstrated an interest in collaborating with researchers to refine and develop the Program will be identified and asked to participate.
Current Members
