People with lived experience
Lived Experience Partnership
Our Lived Experience Partnership was established in November 2014. The members of the group provide us with a wealth of knowledge, experience, and invaluable advice, and their input fundamentally shapes our work.
We believe it is crucial to involve people with lived experience of mental health problems, and accessing mental health services, in all our work – to ensure that the needs of service users and carers are represented and reflected in everything we do.
Our Lived Experience Partnership helps shape and support our work by acting as an advisory forum for our charity, and actively contributing to the development and improvement of our training programme. We regularly seek feedback from members and aim to continuously improve the way we involve people with lived experience of mental health and mental health services.
Contributions of our Lived Experience Partnership
Since the group’s creation, members have been involved in the following:
- Designing our approach to participant recruitment and assessment, and involvement as service user assessors at our assessment centres.
- The programme’s academic curriculum and involvement in facilitating workshops as well as assessing and moderating role plays at the Summer Institute in July-August. Other involvement includes contributing to a video repository on different topics and teaching days.
- Consultation on the different aspects of our programme such as our brand, communications and organisational strategy, diversity and inclusion work and more.
- Presentations or speaking as part of a panel at events such as our recruitment events, Cohort Launch Event and conferences.
To find out more about what it’s like to be a part of the Lived Experience Partnership, take a look at this article written by Caroline, one of the group’s members.
Our membership for the Lived Experience Partnership is currently full. We won’t be able to accept new members at this time.