LELAN Membership 2024

About LELAN:

LELAN is the independent peak body in South Australia by, for and with people with lived experience of mental distress, social issues or injustice. Our purpose is to amplify the voice, influence and leadership of people with lived experience to drive systemic change. LELAN has led philanthropic, state and federally funded projects as well as completed commissioned pieces of work.

LELAN’s systemic advocacy targets the mental health and social sectors in South Australia, whilst our thought leadership and expertise on lived experience expertise and leadership is borderless.

LELAN has three external facing strategic pillars:

Developing the capability and influence of people with lived experience.
Nurturing organisational and sector capacity for partnering with people with lived experience, and
Impacting system improvement agendas to benefit people with lived experience.

Membership Categories:

LELAN has three membership categories:

Individual Member (South Australian consumer only).
- Any person 16 years of age that resides in South Australia, identifies as having personal lived experience of mental distress, social issues or injustice (a consumer) and supports the values, vision, purpose and work of LELAN.
- These members have voting rights and can nominate to be on the LELAN Board.
Associate Member (individual carer, ally or non-South Australian consumer only).
- Any person 16 years of age that identifies as a carer, family, kin or other supporter of choice for a person with lived experience, is an ally to the consumer movement or identifies as a consumer though resides in a state/territory other than South Australiaand supports the values, vision, purpose and work of LELAN.
Organisational Member.
- If you work for or represent an aligned group or organisation please email info@lelan.org.au to request Organisational Member information and nomination form.

Additional information about LELAN's membership can be accessed here. If you have any further questions or would like to discuss a different payment arrangement please contact the LELAN team via info@lelan.org.au or 0431 953 526.

Please note that your responses below are used by LELAN to increase our understanding of who is engaging with our organisation, projects and work. As an organisation we are committed to including diverse perspectives and ensuring that various identities and experiences that people bring to the lived experience community are recognised. We will not disclose personal and/or identifying information about a person without their consent or in a way that they do not agree with. You have the option of providing no response if uncomfortable or unsure of disclosing this information, particularly for questions three and four.

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* 1. Your details:

Name

Address

City/Town

State

Post Code

Date of Birth

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. What type of membership are you applying for?

You will pay at the end of this survey.

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* 3. Some information about the way you personally identify (please tick as many as apply):

Aboriginal

Torres Strait Islander

Caucasian (white person of European origin)

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse

Refugee

Migrant

Sexually Diverse (eg lesbian, gay, bisexual etc)

Heterosexual

Intersex

Trans or gender diverse

Youth (25 or younger)

Older person (65 or older)

Living in regional, rural or remote area of South Australia

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Some information about your personal lived experience (please check as many as apply)

Lived experience of distress and/or mental health issues

Living with a psychosocial disability

Carer of someone living with a psychosocial disability

Lived experience of suicide distress, crisis or attempt(s)

Experience of being bereaved by the suicide of someone close to me

Living with other disability

Carer of someone living with other disability

Lived experience of homelessness and/or housing instability

Lived experience of alcohol and/or other drug use

Lived experience of partner or family violence

Lived experience of sexual abuse and/or violence

Lived experience of childhood trauma

Lived experience of intergenerational trauma

Lived experience of the child protection system

Lived experience of being under Guardianship of the Minister

Lived experience of accessing mental health services as a child and/or young person

Lived experience of the justice and/or prison system

Lived experience of being neurodivergent

Lived experience of being under the Mental Health Act (eg. being 'sectioned' or detained ITO/CTO, etc)

Lived experience of public inpatient mental health services

Lived experience of private inpatient mental health services

Lived experience as a veteran or first responder

Other (please specify)

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* 5. If you are a person with lived experience, what opportunities for involvement and/or using your lived experience for change are you interested in being part of (please tick as many as apply):

Attending training and skill building sessions to gain confidence and capability for using my lived experience for change

Sharing my story at events, in the media or through other mediums

Attending larger service/system design or review forums where service providers, project workers and policy makers are present to provide input from a lived experience perspective

Being a part of consultations, focus groups and/or co-design/production approaches

Being a representative on committee's, such as working and advisory groups or Boards

Being a part of evaluations and/or research

Being a part of interview and recruitment panels within organisations

Being a part of commissioning panels where decisions are made about which service providers and/or programs are allocated funding

Reviewing and/or being part of designing new services and ways of supporting people

Reviewing and/or being part of policy making

Helping design and deliver training sessions for and with the lived experience community

Helping design and deliver training sessions for people that work in the mental health and social sectors

Connecting informally with other people using their lived experience for change

Mentoring people with lived experience newer to advocacy and representative roles than I am

Working towards being employed in a paid peer role

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What is important to you about being a member of LELAN?

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* 7. What advocacy and strategic priorities do you think LELAN should pursue over the next 12-months?

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* 8. If you could suggest one radical or innovative idea for how to improve things for people experiencing mental distress, social issues or injustice in South Australia what would you suggest?

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* 9. A couple of final things for us to check off:

I support the values, vision, purpose and work of LELAN

If I am not already subscribed to the LELAN newsletter I would like to be added to the list

I consent to my answers to questions 6-8 being used in advocacy discussions, presentations and position statements, reports or as quotes on social media knowing I will not be able to be identified and they will be attributed to 'LELAN community member'

Thank you for nominating to be a member of LELAN and believing in the work we do.
Membership applications are presented to the Board for final approval. The Board meets every six weeks throughout the year . Once your application has been accepted we will send out a welcome pack. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via info@lelan.org.au or 0431 953 526.