b'Valuing lived experienceThrough our Consumer Partnerships Program, our consumers and employees continued to work together this year to improve Unitings service planning, design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation.Helping to overcome We added new partnership groups and recruited more Consumer Consultants homelessness to work alongside our people. The new Homelessness Advocacy and Reference Consumer Consultants are people who haveCommittee (HARC) is providing homelessness used our services in the past, or currently usesupport to the Street 2 Home (S2H) team, a service, and now share their expertise andoffering vital information and insights that are lived experience to advocate for change. informed by lived experience to help make the Consumer Consultants work in a range service more relevant to consumers.of areas, including: Seven consumer partners attended the inauguralLeading working groups meeting, with the group now meeting monthly. Co-designing programs Three advocacy actions came out of the Supporting interview panels first meeting: Co-facilitating trainingWrite a letter to the government about the highProviding advice on policy andnumber of vacant unitscommunications documents.Create awareness through Homelessness Week Thank you to all the Consumer Consultantsstories and photoswho have partnered with us in the past year Participation in Overdose Prevention Week.to bring about change. HARC will continue to use the voice of those who have experienced homelessness to inform and create solutions on how to address the Training and recruitment housing crisis.The Consumer Partnerships Program and approach continued to grow as we welcomedtwo new groups of consumer partners throughout the year, bringing new and more diverse voices, ideas and leadership into the program. Thanks to increased numbers, we are now collaborating earlier so we can share in more decisions on strategy, clinical governance, policy and lived experience.42 Uniting Vic.Tas Annual Report 2021-2022'