Activism
A collage demonstrating our ongoing advocacy and teachings
World Health Organisation Mental Health Gap Annual Forum 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
“The UN and WHO, have a responsibility, a collective responsibility to recruit lived experience or experts by experience practitioners at high levels within their organisations to undertake global strategic analysis and engage the various national user and carer networks around the world, and that will assist in the previous point which will bring lived experience voice and our lived experience discipline voice to a truly interdisciplinary perspective in mental health, thank you.” - Matthew
Global Peer Support - Matthew Jackman
Peer Support testimonial provided by Matthew Jackman (October 16, 2020)
National Mental Health Advocate 2020 - Mental Health Foundation Australia
I feel super humbled and privileged to have accepted the National Mental Health Advocate Award 2020 on World Mental Health Day introduced by Minister Alan Tudge MP. As a person with lived experience and service use in mental health I thought it was essential in accepting my award to call out mental health as a social justice issue. The acceptance speech attends to many of the advocacy issues I address in my work. See Award
I Don't Mind - Mental Health America
Session Title: “Nothing For Us Without Us - Stigma, Discrimination and Sanism” with Kelly Davis, Vesper Moore, Jaclyn Radziminski and Matthew Jackman
Mental Health Foundation of Australia - Finance Professionals Mental Health Symposium
In line with the National Mental Health Month's theme this year on 'Mental Health: Post Pandemic Recovery Challenges and Resilience', the Mental Health Foundation Australia has planned this symposium with an aim to further explore the connection between finance and mental health in the community and the mental health of financial professionals through constructive and open discussion. The MHFA has planned this symposium to bring together finance professionals, Federal, State and Local Government officials, industry associations and mental health organisations to discuss the mental health needs of Australia’s finance industry as well as financial stressors in the community.
Academic, Activist... Always the Pragmatist
This panel is part of the 2023 Conference on Critical Psychiatry, Streamed live on Apr 2, 2023. Learn more at www.critpsych.com
Launch Event - WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement
The WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs and Mental Health and Neurological Conditions is a WHO technical product designed to provide practical guidance, norms, and standards to support WHO and Member States advancing, co-creating, and enhancing policies, programmes, and services through the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience of these health conditions.
The launch was led by individuals with lived experience who have contributed to the co-creation process to share their insights, experiences and expertise.
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Intention to action series: people power. Perspectives from individuals with lived experience of noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and neurological conditions
Six case studies from 12 individuals with lived experience of diverse health conditions. These case studies explore the topics of power dynamics and power reorientation towards individuals with lived experience.
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Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services set of publications. It provides a detailed description of person-centred and human rights-based approaches in mental health, and summary examples of good practice services around the world.
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Mojo Festival - Schizy Inc
Ms Fortunate and her Manic Depressive Club in Hawthorn
MHIN Lifestory - Matthew Jackman
Highlighting Matthew’s role within global organisations like the World Health Organisation and their ongoing advocacy in Mad studies and mental health reform. Learn more about their research, consultancy services, and how lived experience is transforming mental health discourse.
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Disability Inclusion week - Mad-Queer-Crip-Pride Panel
A discussion held during Disability Vision Week, featuring a diverse panel of activists, academics, and artists. The focus was on the intersection of identities within the Mad Pride, Queer, and Crip movements. Panelists shared personal experiences of living with mental health challenges, disability, and queerness, exploring how these identities overlap and influence each other. Watch Here
Global Mental Health Lived Experience Movements for Sangath
Lived experience movements in mental health.
What are the consumer, survivor, ex-patient and inmate, and Mad movement aims, goals and outcomes?
