Melissa Thurley Email & Phone Number

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Leadership, strategy and policy for the Peer/Lived Experience Workforce, Community/Stakeholder Engagement and Youth Engagement for headspace Primary, Early Psychosis and Lighthouse specialist trauma service.

Gold Coast

Responsible for the development, delivery and management of the Youth Engagement and Peer Support Programs within the Lives Lived Well (LLW) youth mental health service streams; headspace Early Psychosis (hEP), headspace Primary in Southport and Upper Coomera, and Lighthouse Trauma Service.I manage, support and coordinate a team of Peer Support Workers, including the provision of supervision, performance management, professional development, training and upskilling.I develop programs and creative engagement mechanisms to enable young people to play an active role in their own recovery, and in the development, review and improvement of services.

Gold Coast

Spilt Milk Van is a 1977 Millard Caravan turned coffee van serving up great brews and changing the way we talk about mental health challenges.With a collective 25+ years of working in mental health services in Australia and abroad, the captains of Spilt Milk Van recognised the power of a cuppa to connect people, create communities and facilitate conversations, and wanted to leverage this to create a vehicle (literally!) to share stories, spread knowledge and smash stigma around mental illness.We deliver awareness raising campaigns, corporate and community education packages and individual soft-support and referral services across the Gold Coast, and Northern NSW.

Australia

Freelance Writer/Contributor to online content. Mamamia is Australia’s largest independent women’s media group.

Melbourne, Australia

Moderated Online Social Therapy (MOST) platform is the first single digital solution specifically designed to integrate with and address the key limitations of current youth mental health services. It has been designed with and for young people and existing services, providing clinicians with evidence-based tools that can be used across the diagnostic and severity spectrums and all stages of treatment. As a member of the team who developed and piloted this intervention, my role was to lead the development of the peer support component of MOST and engage young people in the co-design of the platform and content.

Melbourne, Australia

I developed, implemented and managed the peer support and youth engagement framework and programs in Orygen's specialist clinical service teams. I was responsible for training, supporting and empowering young people with a lived experience of mental health challenges to use their stories and experience to guide others through recovery and inform service development and improvement.

Melbourne, Australia

Development of content for the Master of Youth Mental Health coursework, on youth participation, consumer engagement and service co-design. The Master of Youth Mental Health is an online course from The University of Melbourne in partnership with Orygen Youth Health and Orygen; The Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Healthhttp://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/study-here/postgraduate_coursework_programs/master_of_youth_mental_health

Melbourne, Australia

6 month secondment to Western and Northern Melbourne headspace centres to develop and implement a community awareness plan, youth engagement strategy, develop policies and processes for these work areas and build local Youth Reference Groups.

Melbourne, Australia

Project lead for a Department of Health funded initiative to design and implement a new Feedback and Complaints system, policy and process for NorthWestern Mental Health network of services inclusive of The Royal Melbourne Hospital; department of Psychiatry.

Assistant to the Training Manager in the planning and coordination of training programs for clinical staff within Berry Street and Take Two as well as for external organisations and agencies. Specifically, Trauma and Attachment Training and the Therapeutic Residential Care Training Program.

Melbourne, Australia

Copywriter for small - medium businesses migrating from print to online recruitment advertising.Writing job advertisements, managing accounts, assisting with recruitment and applications.

Melbourne, Australia

Eastern Victoria Regional Manager and stock liquidation manager for the closure of Sanity Stores.

Perth, Australia

Store Manager Claremont and Hay Street Mall

Perth, Australia

Store Manager Sanity Music StoresPerth; Hay Street Mall, Karrinyup, Morley

Perth, Australia

Assistant Store Manager Sanity Music Midland and Hay Street Mall