Resources

Check out some of these great resources relating to the consumer/survivor workforce. We will regularly update this list.


Victorian strategy & policy for the consumer workforce

What’s happening in government and sector policy that impacts our workforce?

Strategy for the consumer mental health workforce in Victoria (2019)

  • Authorised by the Lived Experience Workforce Strategies Stewardship Group, published by the Centre for Mental Health Learning

  • Download here

Consumer perspective supervision: A framework for supporting the consumer workforce (2018)

Consumer perspective

Consumer perspective is the discipline that all consumer workers belong to. Read more about consumer perspective here.

What does consumer perspective mean to us?

  • Consumer Academic Program, Centre for Psychiatric Nursing, University of Melbourne

  • Download here

Consumer perspective: The basics

Specialist resources for the consumer workforce

The Co-production Framework: putting principles into practice in mental health contexts (2018)

Authentic engagement: A conceptual model for welcoming diverse and challenging consumer and survivor views in mental health research, policy, and practice (2021)

Leading the Change: Co-producing safe, inclusive workplaces for consumer mental health workers (2020)

  • Associate Professor Susan Ainsworth, Susie Alvarez-Vasquez, Vrinda Edan, Brendan Johnson, Rory Randall, Cath Roper, Dr Kath Sellick, Krystyn Smale and Joanne Switserloot

  • Download here

Employed but not included: the case of consumer-workers in mental health care services (2021)

  • Vrinda Edan, Dr Kath Sellick, A/Prof Susan Ainsworth, Susie Alvarez-Varquez, Brendan Johnson, Krystyn Smale, Rory Randall and Cath Roper.

  • Download here (note: article is behind a paywall)

Real Lives, Real Jobs: Developing good practice guidelines for a sustainable consumer workforce in the mental health sector through participatory research (2009)