CO-LEAD: Lived Experience Leadership in Child & Youth Mental Health
| Wednesday, March 26, 2025 |
| 9:20 AM - 9:50 AM |
Overview
Emily Unity (they/them), Lived Experience Lead
Presenter
Mx Emily Unity
Lived Experience Lead
Emily Unity
CO-LEAD: Lived Experience Leadership in Child & Youth Mental Health
Abstract
What does lived experience leadership look like in child and youth mental health?
In this presentation, Emily Unity will share their insights from over 15 years in intersectional lived experience engagement focusing on children and young people.
Expect practical advice, personal reflections, and actionable strategies to help your organisation adopt co-leadership models that ensure children and young people with lived and living experiences are at the forefront of mental health reform.
Emily will draw on their professional (learned) experiences as a Lived Experience Lead, Board Director, and Consultant, as well as their personal (lived) experiences of mental health challenges, disability, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, homelessness, family violence, and more.
In this presentation, Emily Unity will share their insights from over 15 years in intersectional lived experience engagement focusing on children and young people.
Expect practical advice, personal reflections, and actionable strategies to help your organisation adopt co-leadership models that ensure children and young people with lived and living experiences are at the forefront of mental health reform.
Emily will draw on their professional (learned) experiences as a Lived Experience Lead, Board Director, and Consultant, as well as their personal (lived) experiences of mental health challenges, disability, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, homelessness, family violence, and more.
Biography
Emily Unity is an award-winning mental health advocate, software engineer, and creative designer. They are passionate about creating change through disrupting traditional systems and amplifying intersectional voices.
Emily is informed by their intersectional lived and living experiences. This includes mental ill-health, disability, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, neurodivergence, homelessness, family violence, and more.
For their work, Emily was recently awarded 25 Under 25, 30 Under 30, Mental Health Advocate of the Year, Youth of the Year, the Disability Leadership Award, Innovation in Protecting Children Award, Children and Youth Empowerment Award, and inducted in the inaugural cohort of the Multicultural Honor Roll.
