Mental Health Commission
The Mental Health Commission (Commission), has released details of its Lived Experience Inclusion Plans (LEIPs). A key deliverable under the Joint Leadership Group’s Statement of Commitment, it is an important step in strengthening how lived and living experience is meaningfully involved in the decisions that affect people, families and communities.
The Commission's LEIP sits alongside similar commitments and action being progressed across the Department of Health and Health Service Providers, reflecting a collective commitment to strengthening lived experience inclusion across the system.
Collectively, the LEIPs support a shared vision for a more inclusive, compassionate and person-centred system across Western Australia, recognising lived experience as essential expertise in shaping services, systems and outcomes for people, families and communities. They provide a clear plan of action for how the voices of lived and living experience are elevated across governance, policy, commissioning and service design, delivery and evaluation.
This means that collectively we can build more responsive systems where lived experience expertise plays a central role in shaping services across the state.
The Commission’s LEIP outlines how lived experience will be central to all aspects of operations including in policy, commissioning, governance and workforce development, supporting delivery of the Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs Strategy 2026–2031 and the Commissioning Maturity Action Plan.
The Department of Health and Health Service Providers are also progressing their own LEIPs and related initiatives, reflecting their unique roles, priorities and organisational contexts. Together, these plans support a coordinated, system-wide approach to strengthening lived experience inclusion, workforce development, governance and engagement across Western Australia.
