Our advocacy

In our advocacy work, we incorporate the experiences of our service participants, who are experts in their own lives and best placed to tell us the best ways we can support them. In late 2023, we established the Executive Advisory Group on Lived Experience (EAGLE) with ten participants who have a lived or living experience of using our services.

Together with the group, we developed the Lived Experience Advisory Framework (LEAF), which creates a roadmap for Sacred Heart Mission’s staff, volunteers and participants to work together to create positive change in people’s lives by listening, hearing and acting on lived experience voice. The LEAF helps ensure that lived experience voice is embedded in all our advocacy.

How we advocate is different, depending on the issue and what is likely to have the greatest positive impact. In some cases, we drive the advocacy activity – through a campaign, a policy submission or working with key stakeholders. In other cases, we join or support a larger campaign and participate in peak bodies activities. 

Sacred Heart Mission considers and responds to other issues as they arise, including issues that are prominent in the media where we believe there will be a significant and/or negative impact on our participants. 

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