Inside the ALIVE National Centre’s Co-Designed Roadmap to Regenerate Mental Health Ecosystems
Since 2022, the ALIVE National Centre has co-designed a living national roadmap to address what matters most for people with lived-experience of mental ill-health as well as carer, family and kinship groups in mental health research, mental health care improvements and social determinants. Find out more about the road to mental health rejuventation.
The ALIVE National Centre’s recently published paper in Design for Health, led by Professor Victoria Palmer, outlines a participatory design blueprint for a co-designed roadmap to regenerate mental health ecosystems. This roadmap is a living framework that guides the Centre’s research and translation strategies and outlines the priorities and actions for people most impacted by mental health policies and programs. Included in the roadmap are consensus statements that share the actions people with lived-experience would like to see happening.
The paper outlines how the roadmap has been co-designed and how it is being updated. Special attention is given to ensuring that the pathways formed in the roadmap reflect what matters for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities as well as families where parents are living with mental ill-health and many other priority populations.
For more information email: alive-hub@unimelb.edu.au
Figure 1: Graphic recording by Debbie Wood at the 1st Annual Symposium March 2022 Nipaluna (Hobart) at the start of co-designing the ALIVE National Centre roadmap