The toolkit provides users with a selection of tools and resources to assist in exploring and assessing their own governance processes and formulate a pathway towards embedding lived experience governance across their systems, structures, policies, processes, practices, programs and services.
Lived Experience Leadership Digital Library
Resource | 2023
The Lived Experience Leadership Digital Library is a central repository of mental health consumer and carer leadership-related knowledge and initiatives:
- Lived Experience Leadership
- Engagement and Participation
- Co-design and Co-production
- Lived Experience Workforce
- Lived Experience Research
Intentional Peer Support Co-reflection Guides
Resource | 2023
This page includes a video about co-reflection and links to the following guiding documents:
Integration of Care in Practice
Resource | 2023
This VDDILG and VAADA document highlights a number of models, tools and activities that capture the integration of alcohol and drug activities into the mental health community and bed-based services.
Community Engagement with Purpose
Resource | 2023
VTMH’s Community Engagement with Purpose resource is a comprehensive suite of resources to support mental health workers and mental health organisations undertake community engagement work.
Improving sexual safety in mental health and wellbeing services
Resource | 2023
This Chief Psychiatrist’s guideline sets out the relevant legislation and policy and establishes minimum standards for, promoting sexual safety, supporting human rights, assessing and managing risks, identifying and responding to incidents, and reporting sexual safety incidents.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Mental Health Reports
Resource | 2023
AIHW provides mental health reports, publications, and web articles.
Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s digital library
Resource | 2023
The Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s digital library offers free access to over 1 million resources including reports, e-books, full text journal articles and more.
Search or browse the 4,000+ journals on offer in the e-journals A-Z.
Chief psychiatrist guidelines
Resource | 2023
The Chief Psychiatrist issues clinical guidelines to provide specialist advice on various aspects of clinical service and to inform mental health practitioners and services about the operation and clinical issues in relation to the Mental Health Act (2014).
Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI) - Program Guidelines
Resource | 2023
The FaPMI program aims to improve outcomes for clients who are parents, their children and their families by reducing the impact of parental mental illness on all family members through timely, coordinated, preventative and supportive action within Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS).