Carer representation at the heart of our work!
Published September 06 2024
Earlier this month, Carer Gateway hosted a training day for Carer Advisory Group (CAG) Members in the Macedon Ranges. Tere Dawson, Merri Health’s Consumer Participation Support Officer, facilitated the training session with the support of Carer Gateway Engagement team members, Terri O’Reilly and Sue Poscic.
Tere worked with the consumers before the training to understand their interests and developed a personalised training tailored to their needs. They nominated which topics they would like to cover in the training and they were as follows:
- How to be an effective consumer representative
- How to be an effective member of an advisory committee
- Influencing decision makers
- Corporate and clinical governance
It was an incredible opportunity for the 16 members who come from across Victoria to get together in person and develop their professional skills as consumer representatives.
We received positive feedback from the attendees and are looking forward to seeing how they apply their learnings to the continued improvement of the Carer Gateway program.
If anyone has any questions about the training or the work the CAG is involved in, please feel free to contact cg.carerengagement@merrihealth.org.au.