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About the LEx Hub
Why has the LEx Training Hub been created?
- People with lived experience are a key element of building strong, sustainable alcohol and other drugs, mental health, and suicide prevention workforces in Tasmania. Their unique insights, derived from their own lived and living experience, help to improve outcomes for people who access services, as well as their families, friends and carers.
- They understand the challenges that people and their families face, and can leverage their own experience to demonstrate that, with the right care and support, people experiencing substance dependency, or mental health concerns can overcome any challenges.
- The 2019 Peer Workforce Development Strategy, Rethink 2020 and the Reform Agenda for Tasmanian Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector all identify the critical need to establish a lived experience peer workforce in Tasmania as a priority action.
- The development of a Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce will also support commitments made within the Tasmanian Bilateral Agreement for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention as part of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement.
Some of the benefits of the Lived Experience Workforce:
- Reduction in hospital admissions, reduced re-admission rates, increased discharge rates and reduction in psychiatric inpatient bed use;
- Improved experience for people accessing services, their families and friends, leading to better health outcomes;
- A knowledge resource leading to system improvements;
- Role-modelling recovery that helps break down stigma;
- Increased workplace diversity;
- Positive culture change in organisations
Get in contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 03 6224 9222
Address:
Level 6 39 Murray Street
Hobart
Tasmania
7000