National Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Strategy - November 2021 Workshops

In November 2021, the Commission held a series of workshops across the Strategy’s six workstreams:

In these workshops, we heard from people with a range of personal experiences and perspectives including:

  • People with different experiences of mental ill-health, trauma and distress
  • People experiencing co-occurring conditions including physical and intellectual disability, chronic illness and alcohol and other drug problems
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
  • People from a range of ages
  • People of diverse sexuality and gender
  • People living across Australia, including in rural, regional and remote communities
  • People who support, care for, or who are family and friends of those who experience mental ill-health, trauma and distress.

An online expression of interest process was held to invite applications from people with lived experience of mental ill-health and from family, friends, unpaid carers and support people to join as workshop participants. Applications were assessed by a small working group comprising Commission staff and lived experience representatives from the project’s Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Groups.

Summaries were developed of the key insights and actions shared at each workshop. The draft summaries were shared with workshop participants to ensure accuracy, and also made publicly available to invite further feedback. The final workshop summaries directly informed the development of the Draft Strategy and are available below:

In November 2021, the Commission held a series of workshops across the Strategy’s six workstreams:

In these workshops, we heard from people with a range of personal experiences and perspectives including:

  • People with different experiences of mental ill-health, trauma and distress
  • People experiencing co-occurring conditions including physical and intellectual disability, chronic illness and alcohol and other drug problems
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
  • People from a range of ages
  • People of diverse sexuality and gender
  • People living across Australia, including in rural, regional and remote communities
  • People who support, care for, or who are family and friends of those who experience mental ill-health, trauma and distress.

An online expression of interest process was held to invite applications from people with lived experience of mental ill-health and from family, friends, unpaid carers and support people to join as workshop participants. Applications were assessed by a small working group comprising Commission staff and lived experience representatives from the project’s Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Groups.

Summaries were developed of the key insights and actions shared at each workshop. The draft summaries were shared with workshop participants to ensure accuracy, and also made publicly available to invite further feedback. The final workshop summaries directly informed the development of the Draft Strategy and are available below:

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