Deadline: 18-Nov-22
Mental Health Victoria is accepting applications for its Lived and Living Experience Workforce Leadership Development Grants.
The Royal Commission recommended that the transformed Victorian mental health and wellbeing system should be designed, delivered and led by people with lived and living experience. To support this foundational part of the reform agenda, the Department of Health has provided funding for MHV (Mental Health Victoria) to allocate grants that can build leadership in current lived and living experience workers, across consumer and family/carer roles in state-funded mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD) or harm reduction services.
Supporting reform of Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system is a process that intends to engage people with a lived experience at its core. Building lived and living experience workforce skills, knowledge and capabilities is a key priority of Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy 2021-24. Aligning with this, the grants are for leadership focused qualifications and courses to support lived and living experience workers.
Funding Information
- Up to $5,000 is available.
- A lived and living experience worker can only apply for one qualification or course in their application.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Be in a state-funded role employed in a state-funded mental health, alcohol and other drugs or harm reduction service including peak bodies, training organisations and services delivered by NGOs.
- Be employed in a designated lived or living experience role. Designated lived experience roles include all positions, that regardless of the position type or setting, require lived or living experience of mental illness or psychological distress, substance use or addiction, or of being a family member or carer.
- Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident or New Zealand citizen.
- Be eligible to enrol in, or already be enrolled in, a qualification or course for semester 1 2023 (e.g. diploma, TAFE qualification, leadership training) or by the of May 2022. Recipients may defer their enrolment once.
- Be able to provide a letter of recommendation from line-manger and/or lived/living experience senior (if relevant), confirming the applicant’s length of engagement in the sector and how the service will support the applicant’s learning (e.g., through study leave, flexible workload, etc).
For more information, visit Mental Health Victoria.
For more information, visit https://www.mhvic.org.au/workforce/lived-experience-grants#Overview