Lived Experience. Incorporating the lived experience (LE) of homelessness into program design and implementation is a commitment and framework to include everyone, especially people with lived experience, in planning, implementation and evaluation. Lived Experience best practices included, but are not limited to:
a) Bring the perspective of LE to the forefront by ensuring that no one is left out or misrepresented; ensuring that your organization’s communications, fundraising, research and programs do not reinforce the misconceptions that homelessness is caused by individual problems or can be solved by charity; using professional influence to help advance the goals identified by first voice people; and dedicating time and resourced to advocacy and supporting grassroots social change efforts.
b) Include people with LE at all levels of the organization by hiring those with LE in positions at all levels within the organization; inviting those with LE to join the organization’s Board and committees; including LE as a dimension in your organization’s equity and diversity policies; creating liaisons within municipal governments to include city councils and police boards; and working towards sustainability and advancement for peer positions so that those hired on as peer counselors or peer researchers can advance to permanent positions.
c) Value the time of those with LE and provide appropriate supports by anticipating the compensation required, and including that cost within your budget, of properly including people with LE; creating a welcoming environment in which it is safe to express emotions; provide training and capacity building to all members of the organization; and ensuring timeframes for LE initiates do things at a reasonable pace.
d) Challenge stigma, confront oppression and promote dignity by providing training that addresses these issues to the whole organization; confronting oppression; educate around the intersectionality of racism, sexism, classism and ableism and how they work together and reinforce each other; and reviewing organizational policies and practices to ensure they promote equity, dignity and the rights of people facing homelessness.
e) Recognize LE expertise and engage those with LE in decision making by mandating that people with LE are included in decision making roles in the organization and including those with LE in influential roles allowing them to speak when they can, use social media and other platforms and methods as they are available.
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Lived Experience. NJP values lived experience that contributes to and informs NJP’s work. Lived experience will be credited with one year on the salary scale when such experience is determined relevant and is consistent with the position requirements for which the employee was hired.
Lived Experience. Personal lived experience within the LGBTIQ+ community, demonstrating resilience and a commitment to mental health and wellbeing. • Personal lived experience of engaging with the mental health sector as a consumer.
Lived Experience. The Judicial Council’s Center for Families, Children & the Courts is responsible for administering trainings and developing policies to juvenile court stakeholders. Juvenile court stakeholders include judges, attorneys, Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers, social workers, probation officers and other juvenile court stakeholders. Experts with lived experience in the child welfare and juvenile justice system are vital partners in developing court trainings and policies as they are experts in the user experience. Lived experience is defined as a former or current xxxxxx youth, juvenile justice youth, and parents that are or were involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice system. Project. The Judicial Council seeks experts in lived experience to provide their subject matter expertise in the development, and serve as faculty in the delivery, of at least four trainings for juvenile court stakeholders within the CFCC in year 1. It is anticipated that in years 2 and 3 of the contract, the Contractor will provide subject matter expertise in the development and serve as faculty in the delivery of at least six trainings each year. Contractor(s) will work with Judicial Council staff to develop training curriculum and learning objectives.
