Building Effective Alliances online workshop

The workshop, Building Effective Alliances, recognises the critical value of mental health and addiction lived experience workers in health services across Aotearoa. With new employment opportunities arising for lived experience roles, particularly within clinical teams, it is essential to establish a high-quality learning environment that supports and promotes the Consumer, peer support and lived experience (CPSLE) workforce. This includes developing strong working relationships and building effective alliances that support each other to provide the very best of services for people.

This training is for anyone who works with, manages, or is curious about, how to work effectively with consumer, peer support or lived experience workers.

Key focus areas:

• Consumer, Peer Support, Lived Experience (CPSLE) values and practices
• Why lived experience adds value to services
• What CPSLE roles entail and what they don’t
• Misinformation and myth-busting
• Build effective alliances.

The workshop will run from 10.30am to 2.00pm with a 30-minute break for lunch.

About the host, Janice McGill:

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I have worked in the NGO mental health and addiction sector for over 20 years, leading the growth and development of peer workforce services. My lived experience of mental distress, institutionalization, resilience, and wellbeing has provided a strong foundation upon which I’ve built both skills and knowledge. It is with great joy that I share the expertise that lived experience and peer practices bring to services and systems across the health sector.

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