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In this video from the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission, members of the Lived Experience Advisory Council answer these important questions: · What does valuing people with lived experience look like? · If lived experience was successfully embedded into policy making, what would be different in 10 years? · Why should government engage with people with lived experience? The Commission works to ensure that people with lived and living experience of domestic, family and sexual violence have opportunities to be at the centre of decisions made about them, their lives and their experience. Learn more about the Commission by visiting www.dfsvc.gov.au #16DaysOfActivism #NoExcuse #UnitedNations

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If you look at the statistics on family, domestic and sexual violence, unfortunately our reality is lived experiences everywhere. It's in every room, in every meeting, in every discussion. Valuing lived experience looks like actually getting people with lived experience in the room from the get go to help set the agenda to Co design policies from the start to help implement the policies and then help monitor implementation. It's also about equitable. Commemoration, valuing the time that we put into the work that we do, recognizing and respecting that this is somebody who is choosing to stand up and share something deeply personal away that most of us never do in order to drive systems challenge. If LIFT experience was successfully embedded into policy making, the difference in 10 years would be significant. We see greater funding where it's needed. Workplace shortages would no longer be a problem. We would reduce the gaps in inequality in 10 years with lived. Experience at the table what we would see is measurement that also looks at what's working, what's succeeding how can we promote help seeking behaviours for both victims, survivors and those using violence. I think if we do this well, we could say lived experience our roles grow and develop and be included in policy work, in program development, in peer support work and as high as. I see yours. It's important for government to engage with people with lived experience because we can bridge the gap between the policies and practice. We know where the policies are failing people, but we also know how to improve the system. You need to look at what the data is telling you. We need to look at what the research is telling us. But lived experience can bring to life what is happening in terms of. Government policy initiatives in a way that none of those other things can do, and having lived experience, our survivor advocates are to be able to share their stories, makes a difference to the way that a lot of the work can be implemented. The work. The work can be more inclusive, more accessible, more supportive of different cultures, backgrounds and different experiences and intersections. If you want an honest answer about how things are going, you are going to get that. Someone with lived experience, people with lived experience will have new and emerging ideas and that can be exciting and innovative and government really need to tap into that and needs to be driven by the community, not by services, not by business. Some of the myths or misconceptions around lived experience engagement is that we are so traumatised by experiences that we can't be impartial or objective. We are all idealists. People think it can be too challenging, too difficult to do, to expensive. What's wrong? We're smart and we're strategic and we are ready to help governments around Australia. Put up a much more effective fight against domestic, family and sexual violence. As the true experts, we hold practical solutions which create sustainable change. We make stuff happen because that is how we survived. We understand that change is iterative. When not in pursuit of perfection, we are looking for meaningful and incremental improvement. There are lots of ways to get involved in the 16 days of activism all the way through from recognising that it's happening and having conversations at home around the dinner table and with your families and friends through to what's happening in your workplaces and your teams. But I think that point about really just pausing and thinking about what it is, that role that. Each of us can play from our positions to help drive change and to help gender based violence. This is an important time to be listening and reflecting and to really be active in in helping to drive that change.

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