Co-Production

On request training

Opportunity description

Co-Production is a method of service delivery development that seeks to deliver better, more responsive services by prioritising the expertise of mental health consumers.
Co-production raises the bar on what it means for clinicians and policy makers to ‘collaborate’ with mental health consumers and their supporters. Co-production is not ‘consultation’, ‘participation’ or ‘involvement’. Instead, it seeks consumer leadership, and does so from the very beginning: before problems are defined, solutions proposed and priorities set.

HOW DOES CO-PRODUCTION OPERATE?
Co-production is a service delivery model in which service users have an equal, active and direct role in making decisions about how those services are funded, planned and delivered. It is a framework that seeks to deliver more responsive and better quality services by prioritising the expertise of mental health consumers. This way of working attends closely to issues of power, and strategies for equalising power.

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS WORKSHOP?
Clinical managers and practitioners, members of the consumer workforce, members of the carer workforce, and/or anyone with an interest in working in clinical/consumer partnerships.