Sistren provided a community legal workshop for user-led groups in collaboration with the National Survivors User Network, a charity and membership organisation of people and grassroots groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress, working towards the redistribution of power and resource in mental health.
Sistren was supported by Centric to conduct research to scope the needs of potential recipients of Sistren’s services and to map some of the key issues organisations and leaders face when accessing legal advice. Read more on our work with Centric through their blog.
Hiring or consulting people with direct experience of the issues an organisation tackles if often seen as good equity, diversity and inclusion practice. But here are a few things to consider to truly value and make the most of diverse life experiences.
Samara writes for Pioneers Post.