People with Lived Experience
Learn about Community Legal WA’s project to involve People with Lived Experience of legal need.
The Lived Experience Legal Assistance Change Project
A new CLWA project funded by Lotterywest and the Department of Justice – the Lived Experience Legal Assistance Change Project – will enable CLWA to lead ground breaking work to engage People with Lived Experience of legal need (people who have experienced vulnerability and disadvantage and had a need for free legal assistance services).
The reforms in the community legal sector provide opportunities to help more people, improve outcomes and design services around clients. However, currently there are very few opportunities for People with Lived Experience to inform the way services are designed and operate.
Building capacity and co-design
The project will work with People with Lived Experience to:
- build the capacity of legal assistance services to engage People with Lived Experience and to co-design their services to improve outcomes for the people accessing their services.
- enable People with Lived Experience to inform and help shape coming reforms, ensuring that the legal assistance sector is trauma-informed and designed for people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage.
Better Outcomes
By drawing on experience and knowledge from Lived Experience movements and other sectors, we can build the capacity of legal assistance services to co-design and engage with People with Lived Experience of legal need. By enabling Lived Experience knowledge to inform and shape legal assistance reform, we can improve social and legal outcomes for people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage.