Authors: Fay Jackson, Pam Rutledge
Year: 2017
Event: 2017 TheMHS Conference
Subject: Change, Innovation, Reform,Workforce,Lived Experience, Recovery
Type of resource: Conference Presentations and Papers
Abstract: Strong, visionary leadership within Flourish Australia has used affirmative action to recruit people with Lived Experience at all levels of the organisation including the Board, executive levels, management and Peer Workers at front line of services delivery.
This practice is a successful way to ensure that co-leadership, co-design and co-delivery of mental health services have outcomes that are recovery and wellbeing focused.
The respect paid to the lived experience voice has ensured service reform enabling visionary, ground breaking ideas to take root and grow through co-design and co-delivery of services that meet peoples hopes and needs.
Good leadership is shared, respectful, open to new ideas, embraces dignified risk, is not afraid to let others shine and meet their optimal potential. While many services speak of co-design and co-delivery of services Flourish Australia also ensures co-leadership of voices within the service, in connection to community and citizenship.
Co-leadership at all levels of services is the way of the future for mental and wellbeing services. Flourish Australia has embraced this, is meeting all challenges, reveling and growing in shared learning. This presentation demonstrates how co-leadership expands individual and collective minds, lives, services and communities to meet the hopes and needs of people. Strong, visionary leadership within Flourish Australia has used affirmative action to recruit people with Lived Experience at all levels of the organisation including the Board, executive levels, management and Peer Workers at front line of services delivery.
This practice is a successful way to ensure that co-leadership, co-design and co-delivery of mental health services have outcomes that are recovery and wellbeing focused.
The respect paid to the lived experience voice has ensured service reform enabling visionary, ground breaking ideas to take root and grow through co-design and co-delivery of services that meet people’s hopes and needs.
Good leadership is shared, respectful, open to new ideas, embraces dignified risk, is not afraid to let others shine and meet their optimal potential. While many services speak of co-design and co-delivery of services Flourish Australia also ensures co-leadership of voices within the service, in connection to community and citizenship.
Co-leadership at all levels of services is the way of the future for mental and wellbeing services. Flourish Australia has embraced this, is meeting all challenges, revelling and growing in shared learning. This presentation demonstrates how co-leadership expands individual and collective minds, lives, services and communities to meet the hopes and needs of people.
Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 1. What will people in the audience gain or learn from attending this presentation? People will learn about the value of co-design at executive levels in improving service delivery and connection to community. People will learn how this shared leadership is both a valuable process and produces valuable, visionary outcomes.
Learning Objective 2. How is this topic/issue relevant to mental health services and mental health issues? Good leadership in services has led to services being visionary, brave, wise and employing capable people with lived experience at all levels of the service. These services are sure to produce services that are co-designed and recovery focused.
References
Beattie, V., Meagher. J., Farrugia P., 2013, Embracing Inclusion: Employment of People with Lived Experience: A Policy Direction Paper. Sydney: RichmondPRA.
RichmondPRA, 2014, Recovery Action Framework.
Mental Health Commission of NSW, 2014, Living Well, NSW Mental Health Strategic Plan 2014-2024.
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