Diversity, Inclusion and Lived Experience Statement
As a community minded organisation, we are committed to actively welcoming all people who work in, and access, our programs and services, from all backgrounds including, but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ and CALD.
Diversity, Inclusion and Lived Experience Statement
Open Minds acknowledges the individual and collective contributions of those with a lived and living experience of disability, ageing, mental ill-health and suicide. We also acknowledge those who love, have loved, support and care for them. Each person’s journey is unique and a valued contribution to our commitment to systems reform and suicide prevention.
Open Minds strives to create supportive, enabling and culturally appropriate cultures that recognise the diversity of each person’s contribution, and provide opportunities for leadership, career development, flexible work, and equal and active participation in the community.
Open Minds is committed to diverse ways of thinking and working, and to continual improvement of services and support from access to a broader range of ideas and insights drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds and perspectives.
Open Minds' Directors and Executive Leadership Team contribute their own personal and family lived experience, including experience of disability, ageing, mental ill health, LGBTIQA+ and suicide, to assist all Multicap Group entities achieve service excellence.
Our employee working groups:
We also hold social groups for our clients who identify as LGBTIQA+.
Open Minds commits to:
“My Support Worker and other Open Minds employees I have found to be completely non-judgemental and totally accepting of who I am. We hangout and talk, and they treat me with respect. They have never tried to change who I am, they’ve only ever encouraged positive change in my life.”
Jaq
Open Minds Client
“Working with staff at Open Minds to educate them to be more culturally aware is important because it means we’re enabling our staff to be more culturally capable when working with Indigenous clients."
