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Local Lived Experience Networks (LLENs)

What is a Local Lived Experience Network?

Local Lived Experience Networks (LLENs) are grassroots, community-driven initiatives that centre the voices and expertise of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have lived and living experiences of suicide. These networks provide a space for communities and individuals to come together, build solidarity with each other, and advocate for the distinct suicide prevention needs of their region and Communities.

The aim of the LLEN project is to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have been touched by suicide to come together, build solidarity with each other, and advocate for the distinct suicide prevention needs of their region and Communities.

The LLEN model bridges the gap between lived experience and systemic decision-making, ensuring that those most affected by policies and services are actively involved in shaping them.
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Why Establish a Local Lived Experience Network?

Benefits to your region

Our business model ensures we listen to voices of people on the ground, and represent these at a National/International level

Creates opportunities to develop local resources together as a community

The LLEN model is grounded in IALEC’s standards of best practice engagement with Lived Experience

Individual and collective healing for Network members

IALEC can help your region obtain funding to serve your community needs

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge all Traditional Custodians of this vast and diverse continent now known as ‘Australia’. We honour the Ancestors, Elders, and Knowledge Holders who have cared for Country, its ecosystems, waterways, skies, and cosmos since the beginning of time. Their connection to Country is sovereign and enduring, and will forever remain unchanged by the impacts of colonisation.

We want to acknowledge First Nations Lived Experience. For First Nations Peoples, experiences of living have been passed down for thousands and thousands of years. It is how we survive, thrive, care for each other and Country. Our experiences are the foundation of relationships, of knowledge, that we carry in our Spirit. We acknowledge all lived experiences of First Nations Peoples that are brought to this work, and recognise the power and impact these experiences have on creating meaningful and impactful change for our Communities.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.