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PANDA Lived Experience Workforce Framework

PANDA's lived experience workforce, shaped by personal lived experience, are integral to the work that we do.

At PANDA, we believe in the transformative power a lived-experience workforce has on systems, services, and our communities.

Although our organisation has people with a variety of lived experience (community, clinical, carer, personal), the purpose of this Framework is dedicated to lived experience specific roles within PANDA.

We are committed to further embedding lived experience roles throughout the organisation and ensuring the sustainability of our lived experience workforce through building capacity, developing career pathways, and providing a range of wellbeing and professional supports.

Our lived experience workforce is crucial to PANDA’s mission.

Drawing on personal experiences of perinatal mental health and wellbeing challenges, our lived experience workforce build authentic connections, offering hope and understanding to our community.

This approach ensures genuine support for parents and families navigating emotional and mental health challenges during all stages of pregnancy to the transition to parenthood.

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The purpose of this Framework is to:

Articulate PANDA’s commitment to embedding lived and living experiences in the organisation. We are committed to our lived experience workforce, knowing that our lived experience workers bring expertise that better support the families and communities we work with.
Outline our approach to our lived experience workforce and the scope of their role. Our Framework reinforces the knowledge and expertise that our lived experience workforce brings, alongside the values and guiding principles from which our lived experience workforce operates.
Articulate the key enablers and accountabilities. Our Framework outlines the enablers and accountability mechanisms to better support and enhance PANDA’s growing lived experience workforce.

Why a Lived Experience Workforce Framework?

To ensure that our organisation centres lived and living experience.
To further develop lived experience work as a discipline at PANDA.
To communicate what lived experience work looks like at PANDA, the value that our lived experience workforce bring, and how our lived experience workforce can be seen across the organisation.

Who is this Lived Experience Workforce Framework for?

People who are in or plan to work in a lived experience role at PANDA.
Everyone in the organisation looking to better understand PANDA’s approach to lived experience work, and the role of lived experience workers in the organisation.
For the public seeking to learn more about lived experience work at PANDA.