Frameworks, Toolkits and Guidance Material

Lived Experience (Peer) Workforces Frameworks

• WA Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Framework 2022
• Mental Health Consumer Lived Experience Workforce Discipline Framework 2025
• Mental Health Family Carer Lived Experience Discipline Framework 2025
• AOD Lived Experience Workforce Discipline Framework 2025
• AOD Family Lived Experience Workforce Discipline Framework 2025
• Harm Reduction Living and Lived Experience Workforce Discipline Framework 2025
• PANDA Lived Experience Workforce Framework 2024 – 2026
• Access Health and Community – Lived and Living Experience Framework – 2023
• Queensland Health Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Framework 2023
• The Lived Experience Governance Framework – Prepared by SA Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network 2023
• Minds Peer Work Framework 2021
• National Mental Health Commission Lived Experience Workforce Guidelines 2021
• Framework for Mental Health Lived Experience (Peer) Work in South Eastern NSW 2021
• Red Cross Australia Lived Experience Framework 2021
• Framework for Mental Health Lived Experience (Peer) Work in South Eastern NSW 2021
• WA Council of Social Services Lived Experience Framework Principles and practices for Lived Experience partnerships November 2020
• Queensland Framework for the Development of the Mental Health Lived Experience Workforce 2019
• Wellaways Peer Workforce Framework 2019
• Peer Workforce Development Strategy – Mental Health Council of Tasmania 2019
• NSW Mental Health Commission Lived Experience Framework 2018
• Carer Framework Neami National 2017
• Peer Work Strategic Framework – WAAMH – 2014
• The Lived Experience Workforce in SA Public Mental Health Services 2014

Frameworks and Strategies that reference including Lived Experience (Peer) Work

• WA Suicide Prevention Framework 2021-2025
• National Drug Strategy 2017-2026
• WA Young People’s Mental Health and AOD Use: Priorities for Action 2020-2025
• WA Sustainable Health Review 2019
• WA Whole of Sector Outcomes Framework 2019
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2022

International Lived Experience (Peer) Frameworks

• Tupu a Nuku ki te Wheiao – Alcohol and Other Drug Lived Experience Workforce Framework 2023
• Lived Experience Engagement and Employment Framework – UK – 2024

• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – Introduction – Victoria 2025
• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – In The Workplace – Part 1 – Victoria 2025
• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – In The Workplace – Part 2 – Victoria 2025
• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – Challenges – Victoria 2025
• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – Challenges and Ways to Address Them – Victoria 2025
• A Guide for Lived Experience Workers – Further Reading – Victoria 2025
• Lived Experience Workers – A Guide for Managers – Victoria 2025
• NMHCCF and Lived Experience Australia – Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Checklist 2024
• Leading the change A Toolkit to evaluate lived experience inclusion and leadership 2024
• Leading the change: Checklist to evaluate lived experience inclusion and leadership 2024
• Embed Lived Experience Governance – Prepared by SA Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network 2023
• Safe Research Partnership with People with Lived and Living Experience (LE) – A Checklist 2024
• Queensland Health – Barriers and Enablers to Lived Experience Workforce Development 2017
• NSW Employer’s guide to implementing a peer workforce 2021
• WACOSS Co-Design Toolkit 2017
• TACSI Co-Design Guide
• Beyond Sticky Notes: What is Co-design? 
• Working Together – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Engagement Framework 2018 – 2025
• NSW Recruitment and support of Suicide Prevention Peer Workers 2020
• NSW Peer Workforce – Employer’s guide to implementing a peer workforce
• ACT Lived Experience Commissioning Guidance 2022 
• ACT Lived Experience Engagement Checklist 2022

International Toolkits and Guidance Materials 

• World Health Organisation – Transforming mental health through lived experience – Roadmap for integrating lived and living experience practitioners into policy, services and community 2025 
• Peer Support Program Toolkit – By the University of Colorado – 2015
• Developing peer support in the community: a toolkit – UK 2017
• Co-production Guide – Connecting and Realising Value Through People – UK 2022
• Reflective practice guide for kaiwhakahaere managers 2023
• He arataki ki ngā kaimahi mātau ā-wheako: A guide to the consumer, peer support, and lived experience workforce in mental health and addiction settings 2023
• Experts by Experience Guidelines to support the development of Peer Worker roles in the mental health sector – UK 2020
• A Trauma-Informed Approach: An Introductory Guide for Employers and Workforce Development Organizations

NSW Mental Health Commission Employer’s guide to implementing a peer workforce – Planning Toolkit

This toolkit has been produced as a guide to assist in the development and implementation of a Peer Workforce Plan. The toolkit includes clear explanations of what needs to be considered in the planning process and a series of customisable Worksheets, Checklists, Info Sheets and Quick Tips to accompany each step.

NSW Mental Health Commission – Leading the change A Toolkit to evaluate lived experience inclusion and leadership

The Toolkit’s Checklist enables organisations to reflect on how people with lived experience are already included, and the quality and maturity of these practices

MHCC’s Lived Experience Engagement Checklist

Maximising co-production, engagement and collaboration with people with lived experience

A Toolkit to Authentically Embed Lived Experience Governance

This toolkit provides users with a selection of tools and resources to assist in exploring and assessing their own governance processes and formulate a pathway towards embedding lived experience governance across their systems, structures, policies, processes, practices, programs and services.

Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Checklist

The Checklist has been developed as a practical planning and reflective tool to assist organisations to recognise and implement a comprehensive plan to incorporate and strengthen a peer workforce.

National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines Self-assessment tool

First steps to a Lived Experience workforce development plan in mental health organisations

MHCC Lived Experience Engagement Checklist

A checklist to ensure your organisation is authentically involving lived experience.