Connect Centres Lived Experience Workforce Project

About this project

We have partnered with the Department of Health (Mental Health & Wellbeing Division, Lived Experience Branch) and the Family and Carer Advocacy Network (FaCRAN) at RMIT University to support a project focused on the carer lived experience workforces at the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centres.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centres are new services that provide dedicated support to families, carers, supporters and kin who are supporting people living with mental ill-health, psychological distress, trauma and/or substance use challenges. This project will describe and map the carer lived experience workforce in the context of the Connect Centre peer-led service model, in addition to developing potential policy and practice strategies to support and grow the carer workforce.

How will this project help me?

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By expanding the knowledge evidence base on dedicated peer-led supports for family, supporters, carers and kin, my loved ones may be better supported

Translational research questions

What is required for the carer peer workforce to meet the needs of service users who are accessing Connect Centre peer-led services?

What lessons can we draw from the Connect Centre peer-led practice model that could help to strengthen the carer lived experience workforce more broadly?