Lived Experience Advisory Directory - LEAD

✨Mental healthcare and peer support may improve the experience of diabetes self-management during pregnancy✨ 📌The study had three objectives: 🔵(1) to determine the predictors of glycaemic control during pregnancy; ⚫(2) to understand the experience and diabetes self-management support needs during pregnancy among people with pre-existing diabetes and 🔵(3) to assess how self-management and support experiences help to explain glycaemic control among women with preexisting diabetes in pregnancy. 💡Results found that participants achieved ‘at target’ glucose control 🌱And that participants reported high levels of self-efficacy that increased throughout pregnancy. 🌱 Qualitative data further confirmed that participants who had worked hard to optimise glycaemia during pregnancy were confident in their self-management. 🌱However, the qualitative find- ings also revealed feelings of fear resulting in an isolating and mentally exhausting pregnancy. 🌱These negative feelings were reinforced by a lack of support from the participants’ healthcare team, particularly around self- management of diabetes during labour and delivery. Find the full study here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eK6mtrB3 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🌱The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Creating better workplaces for people with lived experience. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌍LivedExperienceLeaders.com

✨Examining the experiences of student peer support workers delivering care within post-secondary institutions✨ 📌Three themes emerged: 🌱(1) diverse presentations and approaches to operationalizing peer support for mental health issues on campus exist; 💡(2) peer support has core ingredients; 🌱 (3) reasons why students access peer support extend beyond mental health crisis. Find the full study here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eNYsrH9C ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🌱The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Creating better workplaces for people with lived experience. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌍LivedExperienceLeaders.com

✨HIRING GUIDELINES FOR PEER SPECIALISTS✨ 📌By the National Council for Behavioural Health 💡Here's what the guide includes 🌱Advertising ✨Evaluating peer skills 🌱Assessing skills of an employee ✨Proficiency of a peer specialist Find the full guide here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gZZWzu4X 📑Guidance documents ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🌱The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Creating better workplaces for people with lived experience. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌍LivedExperienceLeaders.com

🐶 Sundays are for...? 🐶 🥱 After a busy few weeks, this Sunday is all about restorative time. 😴 Like Wanda, give yourself time to relax and recharge for the week ahead. 🐶 What are you doing this Sunday for yourself? ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🔔 Follow the Lived Experience Advisory Directory's daily updates here👇 https://lnkd.in/e2M-hu5P 💡The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Leading the way forward with advocacy & advisory support for the Lived Experience workforce and organisations. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌱https://lnkd.in/gdXun4D4 ☕Interested in hiring LEAD for Consultancy? We specialise in working with organisations who employ people with lived/living experience of mental health, trauma, or other life altering experiences to aim for excellence in supporting their workforce. Find a time to have a coffee with us👇 https://lnkd.in/eCV_4hEM

✨ What do you find useful to support your own mental health and wellness? ✨ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🔔 Follow the Lived Experience Advisory Directory's daily updates here👇 https://lnkd.in/e2M-hu5P 💡The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Leading the way forward with advocacy & advisory support for the Lived Experience workforce and organisations. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌱https://lnkd.in/gdXun4D4 ☕Interested in hiring LEAD for Consultancy? We specialise in working with organisations who employ people with lived/living experience of mental health, trauma, or other life altering experiences to aim for excellence in supporting their workforce. Find a time to have a coffee with us👇 https://lnkd.in/eCV_4hEM

✨Move over and make space for lived experience criminology: Why we do “lived experience”✨ 🔵The paper underscores the pivotal role of these personal narratives in advancing our understanding of crime, punishment, and rehabilitation, ⚫Thereby contributing to a more comprehensive and empathetic criminological discourse. 🔵This paper posits the necessity of redefining the concept of expertise in criminology. ⚫It challenges the traditional emphasis on credentialism, 🔵Advocating for the recognition of expertise derived from lived experiences. ⚫Such an approach enriches the discipline with diverse perspectives and deepens our understanding 🔵Of the multifaceted nature of crime and justice. ⚫This serves as a clarion call to the academic community. 🔵It invites criminologists to not only make room for but also to actively engage with and support the development of lived experience criminology. Find the full paper here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gyyx9z9z 📑Studies ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🌱The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Creating better workplaces for people with lived experience. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌍LivedExperienceLeaders.com

🥱 I'm so tired of seeing articles like this again and again. 💡 If anything, it's DWP who is defrauding many vulnerable people from support they are entitled to. 💡 Following making a PIP claim, there is a lengthy waiting process. 💡 If a person disagrees with DWP's initial decision, they can first ask for a "mandatory reconsideration", and, if they are still unhappy, they can appeal the decision in a Tribunal. 💡Looking at the statistics for 'mandatory reconsiderations' and appeals between April 2019 and March 2024: 1. 37% of completed 'mandatory reconsiderations' resulted in a change to the initial decision. 2. 48% of appeals that were lodged 'lapsed', meaning DWP changed the initial decision in favour of the claimant prior to a hearing. 3. 81% of DWP decisions that got to the tribunal stage were overturned in favour of the Claimant. 💡 This is without even mentioning those vulnerable people who probably cannot even complete the process, so fall out of the system without recieving any support they are entitled to. 💡 Bearing in mind, Claimants have to wait: 1. an average of 15 weeks to even get an initial decision - a decision that is often wrong. 2. an average of 10 weeks for a 'mandatory reconsideration' decision. 3. an average of 27 weeks for a decision following an appeal. 💡 This means that vulnerable people, in need of support NOW, often have to wait over a year before even getting that support. 💡 It's a shame the general population knows very little about the realities disabled people face. Instead, they constantly hear rhetoric from politicians and the media about 'fraudsters', who, in the Government's own statistics, account for 0% of PIP assessments to the end of the April 2024 financial year.

✨ The importance of disability representation to address implicit bias in the workplace ✨ 💡 The social model of disability is based on the premise that people with disabilities are not disabled by their own impairments but by the inadequacies in how society is set up to accommodate those impairments. 💡 This contrasts with the medical model which focuses on the impairments themselves. 💡 Stigma and stereotyping are cited as a key barrier to employment for people with disabilities with myths about lower productivity, high physical adaptation costs and higher absenteeism. 💡 The results of the study show significant negative attitudes towards people with disabilities, in line with previous studies within general populations. 💡 The results highlight the need for greater disability representation within the workplace and a critical rethink of current approaches to address negative attitudes towards people with disabilities—both within the workplace and beyond. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🔔 Follow the Lived Experience Advisory Directory's daily updates here👇 https://lnkd.in/e2M-hu5P 💡The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Leading the way forward with advocacy & advisory support for the Lived Experience workforce and organisations. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌱https://lnkd.in/gdXun4D4 ☕Interested in hiring LEAD for Consultancy? We specialise in working with organisations who employ people with lived/living experience of mental health, trauma, or other life altering experiences to aim for excellence in supporting their workforce. Find a time to have a coffee with us👇 https://lnkd.in/eCV_4hEM

✨Growing the peer workforce in rural mental health and social and emotional well-being services: A scoping review of the literature✨ 🔵 The study aims are to: 🌱 Determine the extent and nature of the literature that provides guidance for growing the peer workforce in rural mental health services; and 🌱 Identify and explore any guidance relevant to rural peer work services dedicated to First Nations communities, including those promoting social and emotional well-being within this body of literature. 📌Findings show that 💡While there is a lesser volume of rurally focused literature relative to the general peer work literature, 🌱This is a rich body of knowledge, 💡Which includes guidance concerning services dedicated to First Nations communities. 🌱Via synthesis critical considerations were identified for the development, 💡Implementation and sustainability of peer work in rural mental health services across six domains: 🌱‘Working with community members and stakeholders’, 💡‘Organisational culture and governance’, 🌱Working with others and in teams, 💡Professional expertise and experience, 🌱Being part of and working in the community and 💡‘Local mental health services capacity’. Find the full study here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gbWReG8R ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🌱The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Creating better workplaces for people with lived experience. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌍LivedExperienceLeaders.com

✨ Contextualising the Effectiveness of an Employee Assistance Program Intervention on Psychological Health: The Role of Corporate Climate ✨ 💡 A presenting psychological health issue may have its basis in work and organisational factors, so interventions that solely focus on the individual may have limited value. 💡 The Psychosocial Safety Climate (“PSC”) refers to the organisational climate for employee psychological health and safety. 💡 Occupational stress is one of the main reasons for mental ill-health and may result from pressures within the workplace. 💡 Without giving appropriate attention to the causes of distress, potential gains from counselling interventions are likely to be limited, particularly when employees return to a stressful environment. 💡 Individual interventions are effective but require organisation-wide interventions to improve their long-lasting impacts. 💡 Workers’ psychological distress has two components: one that emanates from personal processes and is amenable to individually focused interventions; and another that emanates from the workplace. 💡 Although PSC may improve slightly through the use of EAPs, it often does not change significantly. This suggests that EAPs are likely successful at reducing thoughts and feelings of distress in the short-term but are not helpful in changing the workplace climate. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🔔 Follow the Lived Experience Advisory Directory's daily updates here👇 https://lnkd.in/e2M-hu5P 💡The Lived Experience Advisory Directory. Leading the way forward with advocacy & advisory support for the Lived Experience workforce and organisations. 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌱https://lnkd.in/gdXun4D4 ☕Interested in hiring LEAD for Consultancy? We specialise in working with organisations who employ people with lived/living experience of mental health, trauma, or other life altering experiences to aim for excellence in supporting their workforce. Find a time to have a coffee with us👇 https://lnkd.in/eCV_4hEM