Mental Health Transformation through lived experience

I have been really fortunate to sit on a variety of lived experience advisory groups and in turn help shape how services are developed, promoted and evidence their needs.

Here's some things I've learned along the way:

• No one experience is the same, but there's a lot of shared challenges and successes
• You can't manage success with old tools - invest in data and monitoring to evidence need, client journeys and the value of your work
• Value the role the charity sector has in reducing the likelihood of a client returning to high-need services and invest in preventative and social models of care
• There's a lot to be learned from responses to different health conditions, including the HIV pandemic - involve intersectional and intergeneration voices
• When you invest in minoritised communities, you support the majority