Partnering and Engaging with Young Consumers

So, you'd like to involve young consumers, carers, people with lived experience, family or community members in your work but aren't quite sure where to start?

This session is an introduction to some of the things to consider when thinking about when you want to engage and partner with young health consumers. Young people are an important group of patients and consumers who use our health services, but their voices and perspectives are not as sought as they could be.

We'll cover:

• Why its important to seek the perspectives of young people

• What do services and staff need to do differently to hear from young people

• What do we mean when we say involvement and engagement?

• Different ways of engaging

• Engaging with young people from marginalised groups

• What are some possible opportunities?

• What support is available to help you?

Who is this session for?
Recommendation 4 of the Sustainable Health Review is to commit to new approaches to support citizen and community partnership in the design, delivery and evaluation of  sustainable health and social care services and reported outcomes.

This session is aimed at any staff in health services across WA who is interested in learning more about engaging with young consumers, carers, young people with lived experience, family or community members. 

This session will be presented by Qistina from Health Consumers' Council and Lizzie from CAHS. The session will be presented online via Teams. The link will be sent out to you in the week before the event.

If you have any questions about this session, contact engagement@hconc.org.au

Health Consumers' Council was established in 1994 as an independent voice for consumers and the community on all issues to do with health and healthcare. 

HCC receives funding from the WA Department of Health to support this workshop.