The Consumer, Carer and Family Participation Team is a lived experience team providing a responsive program of recovery-oriented peer work, education and information for consumers, carers and families.

The team’s goal is to increase consumer, carer and family participation in the planning, delivery and evaluation of mental health services.

Members of the team include:

• Team Leader (Lived Experience Workforce)
  Operationally responsible for the Consumer, Carer and Family Participation Team 
   
• Senior Peer Coordinator
  Promotes and facilitates consumer participation and supervises the consumer peer worker team
   
• Senior Carer Peer Coordinator
  Promotes and facilitates carer and family participation and supervises the carer peer worker team
   
• Peer Workers
  Provide non-clinical peer connection and engagement to consumers
   
• Carer Peer Workers
  Provide non-clinical peer connection and engagement to family and carers
   
• Peer Assistants
  Provide peer connection and engagement, interaction and companionship to in-patients
   
• Consumer and Carer Representatives
  Represent the voices of consumers and carers

Our lived experience is our most important attribute and is the foundation of Peer Work.

Read more about how our work aligns with the Queensland Framework for Mental health lived experience workforce.