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Hi, Rachel. I'm going to ask you what your definition of lived experiences.
Oh, um, my definition of would experience has been somebody that has gone through
traumatic experience in the life
that's like them to them,
potentially make decisions that are best decisions for them.
At the time, it felt like the right thing to do for them.
And
whether that be substance misuse or, um or not the relationships.
Maybe So I think it's it's having that experience
going through those traumatic events in the line, being homeless,
having mental health issues as well,
and then being able to work on those issues and get to a place in your lives
and then use that lived experience that you have within it.
It's always there, and it never goes away, um, to help and support other people,
whether that be working on the front lines for people or whether
it's working on a project behind sort of the scenes a bit,
some more like the programme level, or, um,
even even at the beginning of a project feeding
into how that is going to be delivered,
how a service is going to be a little bit.
I think it's really important that people with lived
experience realised that their voice is really important.
So let me ask you,
what support do you think should be available for people with lived
experience who want to get involved in this type of work?
Um, so I'd say that I think there should be something similar,
if not the same as what we do work shelter, which is the growth programme.
So, um, an organisation might not be able to deliver for growth model of these,
these learning that can be taken from that.
So like, for example,
making sure that you advertised way like in advance for a job and then put on
some pre application sessions
and then
and a number of the team would go to those events
and support people to put in applications for those jobs.
And
you might find that when you get there,
it might not be the right thing for some people.
So it's about sign posting.
They might need some support with like education,
so we can refer to all the organisations that we know
and
and I think the other thing as well that other organisations can do is is be open
minded and not so closed off To think that
that everyone is the same because we're not.
And we're all different.
We've all had different experiences and to see
the value in people that have lived experience.
Really? Thank you very much, Rachel.
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