Focus Group: Cost-of-Living
To inform our submission to the Select Committee on Cost of Living, Consumers of Mental Health WA is forming a focus group so we can hear from consumers with lived experience of mental health challenges who have been affected by rises in costs of living about the ways in which the cost-of-living crisis has had an impact on mental health.
The Select Committee on the Cost of Living will explore and report on cost-of-living pressures facing Australians, the Government’s policy responses to the cost of living, and ways to ease cost of living pressures. You can read more about the inquiry here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Cost_of_Living/costofliving
The focus group will be facilitated by CoMHWA’s Systemic Advocacy team, and further details are below:
- Time and date: 10am – 1pm, Wednesday 18th September.
- Location: Training room 14 at Consumers of Mental Health WA, 14/275 Belmont Ave, Cloverdale.
- Who can participate: people with lived experience of mental health challenges who have experienced financial stress due to the rises in costs of living, or whose capacity to support their mental health has been affected by rises in costs of living.
- Payment: Attendees will be paid for their time as well as an additional hour for travel.
- There will be a morning tea provided as part of the focus group.
To register, please email admin@comhwa.org.au or call 08 9258 8911 and provide your dietary requirements.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr Melissa Russell, Senior Policy and Research Officer at mrussell@comhwa.org.au
If you would like to share your experiences, but focus groups are not accessible to you, please contact Melissa at the above address so we can organise another option. This could include an online or phone interview, in-person interview in a place that is comfortable for you, a written submission of your story, submissions of art or poetry or other modes that work better for you.
