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Carrie Lumby appointed to role of Lived Experience Capability Advisor
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Carrie Lumby to the role of Lived Experience Capability Advisor. Carrie has worked in formal and volunteer roles across community engagement, advocacy, and development, and now specialises in supporting people and organisations to strengthen their capacity for community-engaged ways of working to improve health and social care.
In her new role as Lived Experience Capability Advisor with the National Mental Health Commission, Carrie will lead the Commission's efforts to build systemic capability for purposeful and effective lived experience engagement and participation by working with the Executive and staff to collectively implement a capability building plan across the agency.
Carrie is also a Deputy Commissioner with the Mental Health Commission of NSW – a three-year Ministerial appointment which began in June 2025. As a sessional Deputy Commissioner, she works to provide strategic advice and expert input on systemic issues affecting people with lived experience across the state, and will also support the Commission in its new role under the NSW Suicide Prevention Act 2025.
Carrie’s lived experience advocacy spans mental health, alcohol and other drugs, suicide prevention, and domestic, family, and sexual violence. She has worked in a variety of lived experience identified roles, including as a peer worker and as the National Mental Health Commission's inaugural Director, Lived Experience. She has also contributed to the development of community-led and engaged approaches to improving wellbeing outcomes, including place-based initiatives, peer-run services, and arts-based programs.
Carrie's mental health and suicide prevention reform work is grounded in her own experiences of forced treatment within the public mental health system, as well as the recovery she has gained through compassionate care and peer support. She lives in Tumut, a small town on the lands of the Wiradjuri, Wolgalu, and Ngunnawal peoples, where she enjoys walking by the river and attending to the whims of her newest family member, Rosie the rescue parrot.
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