NEW LIVED & LIVING EXPERIENCE AWARD CATEGORY
To celebrate the APSAD Awards 20th anniversary we are announcing the new Lived and Living Experience Award. The Lived and Living Experience Award will recognise an individual that has made an important contribution to clinical practice, research, training, prevention, or policy in their role as someone with lived experience working or volunteering in the area of substance use or harm reduction services.
Lived & Living Experience Award details:
The Lived and Living Experience Award recognises an individual that has made an important contribution to clinical practice, research, training, prevention, or policy in their role as someone with lived experience working or volunteering in the area of substance use or harm reduction services.
Eligibility
Any individual who is employed or volunteering in an identified lived or living experience role within in the alcohol and other drugs sector is eligible to apply. Individuals must be drawing on their lived and/or living experience of alcohol and/or other drug use in the service of others. Five or more years of lived or living experience is preferred, but applicants with less experience may still be considered.
Note: people with lived and living experience are encouraged to nominate in the other award categories – Senior Scientist, Early-Career, Mid-Career, Mentor, Clinician, First Nations, and Advocacy.
Selection Criteria
Evidence of significant contribution to practice, research, training, prevention, or policy in any aspect of substance use working (or volunteering) in a recognised lived or living experience role. Nominees need to show the extent of the impact of their work and how it has made a substantial and practical contribution to one of these areas. The nomination should clearly describe the achievements to be honoured, the scope and depth of impact, including evidence of significant positive impact on outcomes for consumers and/or service provision in the AOD sector.
Examples:
- Demonstrating improvements in policy, practice, research, or workforce
- Advocating for the rights of people who use alcohol and other drugs
- Increasing access and retention to AOD and harm reduction services
Further Details:
- APSAD Membership is not a prerequisite, nor is it of any advantage or disadvantage during the nomination process.
- The nominator must be a current APSAD member. Any member can nominate across multiple Award categories.
- Nominations close 29 July 2024.
- The recipients for all APSAD Awards are announced at the official Awards Ceremony held during the 2024 APSAD Conference on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) 30 Oct -2 Nov.
Head to the Awards page for more Information or go straight to the nomination form.