Participant Committee Member
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Role Overview
Activated Concepts is committed to providing trauma-informed and person-centred support that is welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to all. We encourage, recognise, and promote an active commitment to eliminating all forms of discrimination and to promote the recognition of the rights of all people.
We recognise the value of a lived experience to our community and our services; we want to ensure that we are guided by the very people we support.
Participant Advisory Committee is a group of passionate volunteers which provide expert and impartial advice to the development and implementation of services and community initiatives at Activated Concepts. The Participant Advisory Committee will meet quarterly with senior managers at Activated Concepts to ensure that the organisation continually strives for ‘understanding’, ‘wellbeing’, ‘respect’ and ‘excellence’.
Key Duties
As a volunteer on the Participant Advisory Committee you will provide expert and impartial advice to the development and implementation of services and community initiatives at Activated Concepts.
The Participant Advisory Committee will meet quarterly with senior management at Activated Concepts to ensure that the organisation continually works with people with a lived experience of trauma and/or disability to work toward its mission and vision.
The Participant Advisory Committee will use the following strategy to achieve this objective.
- Provide input to policy development, review, and strategic planning.
- Advise on issues that participants face in the local community and information on areas where participants require support or services.
- Provide information on how Activated Concepts can become more accessible and responsive
- Advise on how to identify issues that are relevant to people with a disability.
- Advise on how to identify issues that are relevant to people with a lived experience of trauma
About You
Essential Criteria
Applicants must outline that they;
- Have lived experience of disability or trauma or;
- Are a Carer of a Person with a Disability and;
- Live in the Hunter New England Area and;
- Be aligned with Activated Concepts values.
At Activated Concepts we celebrate growth and all forms of diversity. People from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Please submit a statement outlining how you meet the selection criteria and how this relates to the responsibilities of the Committee to be considered. If you need assistance with this, please contact our office.