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COVID Vaccine Uptake
Co-creating messaging and strategies to support informed decision making about COVID vaccinations: LELAN is working with the lived experience (LEx) community to co-create messaging and strategies to support informed decision making about COVID...
Laneway of Lived Experience
Interactive Art Exhibition: LELAN's Laneway of Lived Experience LELAN’s Laneway of Lived Experience was an interactive art exhibition showcasing the stories LELAN gathered from members of the lived experience community through one-on-one interviews and artwork...
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[Media Release]: Launching the Activating Lived Experience Leadership (ALEL) Project & Announcing a Strategic Partnership
Activating Lived Experience Leadership ProjectSouth Australia’s peak body for Lived Experience (LEx), the Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network (LELAN) in partnership with University of South Australia’s (UniSA) Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research...
Language Matters!
In the lived experience community we know that language matters! Language helps us shape our ideas, how we interact with and see the world. Words carry weight, power and influence and when used incorrectly or without thought, they can have great impacts on an...
UNHEARD ISSUE ONE
LELAN, Have a Say / Get ActiveUNHEARD ISSUE ONE: navigating uncertain times & life disruption Welcome to LELAN's first online zine showcasing the contributions of people with lived experience of mental distress, social issues or injustice (as well as our...
Lived Experience Development, Governance & Education Project
Opportunities, Have a Say / Get ActiveAlt LELAN we are excited to have our newest project, the Lived Experience Development, Governance & Education (LEDGE) Project up and running! There is increasing awareness of the broad range of benefits that comes from having...
SA’s ‘Circuit Breaker’: What We Have Been Hearing So Far
COVID19, Our Experiences Through COVID ProjectLELAN connected with members of the lived/living experience community as we moved in and out of the State’s 'Circuit Breaker'. We value the insights, perspectives and stories that were shared through our COVID surveys,...
Annual Report 2020
LELANLELAN's AGM was held on Monday November 30th. The 2020 Annual Report (read or download below) was presented as a summary of our 2019-2020 financial year. It symbolises the first full year that LELAN operated as a funded and staffed organisation. The...
COVID Support
Support during COVID: Concern about a COVID second wave in Adelaide has disrupted life as we know it today. It makes sense to feel a wide range of emotions when things are so uncertain and out of routine. We also know the power of human connection to help...
Productivity Commission Inquiry supports major reform for mental health consumers
Media ReleaseMEDIA RELEASE: Monday, 16 November 2020 [download here] Productivity Commission Inquiry supports major reform for mental health consumers The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance welcomes the recommendation from the Productivity Commission...