Existing/Upcoming Projects & Resources relating to Intersectionality, Equity, Diversity & Lived Experience/Peer Work
| Solis (aidMH) • Convening ‘Culture & Intersectional Equity in LE Network (CIELEN)’ since Jul 2023, alongside our substantive (monthly) community of practice with 130+ members • Had input into Vic’s upcoming State-wide LLE Leadership Strategy (through a specific strategic direction: Diversifying LLE Workforces), alongside First Nations Strategic input.
📆 Feb 2023 - Current | We are also working with the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing (VCC) to support multicultural and intersectional peer workforces. This includes a number of projects including: • Co-leading a CoP supporting intersectional LLE workforces • Making the Solis’s Culture & Mental Health Toolkit more accessible to Victoria’s mental health workforce • And raising the profile of Victoria’s multicultural community-led organisations 📆 End of 2025 - Current | Decolonising Consumer Perspective Supervision (CPS) • SS’s CPS Reflection Piece & my Intersectional Approach to CPS were precursors to a conversation with CPS team + FG’s ongoing development of CPS Slides/content in training - Including the section on ‘First Nations’ & Culture-specific historical and ongoing activism (and erasure)’. • Collective running of sessions to explore Cultural humility and intersectional responsiveness for CPS cohorts
📆 End of 2025 - Current | Mind’s Work in the Lived Experience & Equity Spaces • Development of a new, organisation-wide Intersectionality-focused Framework (TBC) and embedding alongside supporting national Peerwork Framework • Integration of intersectional and equity/justice-driven approaches embedded from the beginning of service establishment phase of the new (and first ever) Lived Experience Residential Service amongst other key peer-led projects.
📆 Early 2025 - Current | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | NH’s work & Collective Research • Paper published in early 2026: Exploring Issues of Culture in Peer Work: A Qualitative Study • Have begun collecting Literature & Frameworks relating to the intersect between Intersectionality/Diversity/Equity/Justice & the LE/Peer Work sectors to co-produce a Theoretical/Conceptual Framework with First Nations, Multicultural and intersectional communities. 📆 Jun 2023 - Current | The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance (Australia’s peak body for MH consumers)’s Multicultural Affinity Group • Representation from each state and territory (also about to increase by 1 in each + additional co-chair) • Drafting a national shared foundations document around multicultural lived experience and influencing federal MH spaces.
📆 Dec 2024 - Current | IALEC’s Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peer Workforce Guide
• Broader Social and Emotional Wellbeing Frameworks (also see ‘Research’)
📆 2024 | cohealth’s Bicultural Workers Program • Bicultural Worker Professional Standards • Work to explore BC x LE Frameworks - Including presenting with JP at TheMHS 2026 around BC x LE/Peer Work (can provide on request).
📆 Bicultural Program ongoing since Pre-2019, LE work ~2026 | | Intertwine’s work • Specifically in relation to people’s interaction with systems & structures being where the complexity gets introduced (rather than people’s identities themselves being complex and the onus on them to be more palatable to the system).
📆 Intertwine around since 2017 | VTMH (Victorian Transcultural Mental Health)’s LLE Project • Working on a new codesigned project that seeks to identify the range of factors that lead to the invisiblising of experiences of cultural/racial marginalisation within the Victorian LLE workforce.
📆 Aug 2025 | Other Frameworks that have informed this work:
• Culture section of LELAN’s Lived Experience Governance Framework 📆 Jul 2023
• Pola Practice’s Culturally Responsive & Intersectional Practice (CRIP) Model 📆 2023 | Consumer history/movement: https://www.ourcommunity.com.au/files/OCP/HistoryOfConsumerMovement.pdf