H.O.M.E Toolkit
Lived Experience Co-Design Toolkit
The H.O.M.E toolkit has been broken into 6 sections, and it is advised that you work through these in numerical order.
1. Principles and Values
This toolkit outlines two core principles attached with guiding values and attitudes to adopt, enabling best practice of lived experience co-design and engagement. The empathy and equity principles are the core to every aspect of what you do…
2. Approaches to Engagement
There are a number of ways that an organisation, service provider or government department might seek to partner with, engage and involve people with lived experience.
3.Co-Design
Co-design is increasingly being used by both government and the community sector as a methodology to describe a range of activities and processes used in the design and enhancement of services, policies and programs that involve people who use or are affected by that service or policy
4. Lived Experience
Lived experience is the experience of people on whom a social issue, or combination of issues, has had a direct personal impact. People who have lived through housing insecurity or homelessness, or any problem, usually have the best understanding about what the problem is and what needs to be done to address it
5. Policies, Procedures and Building a Team
Now that we have a greater understanding of lived experience and co-design, as well as the principles and approaches to take, the focus then turns to the organisational policies and procedures to make this possible and to embed this approach within organisational culture.
6. Important Resources, Templates, and Examples
Now that we know why and how to conduct a best practice lived experience co-design or engagement, it is also important to understand the resources, templates, and examples of what to gain a clearer idea of how to go about some specific areas and see how best practice can be implemented.
