Work Package 1 aims to develop, implement and evaluate clinical and peer-led models of care that centre psychosocial support in coordination and provision of healthcare services to people with IVSCs and their families, that reflect community and human rights expectations and new regulatory norms; integrate best practice clinical and peer-led psychosocial support; promote the faster adoption of best practices developed in the ACT and national peer-led services, by health professionals in other settings. Including:
- Improve the quality and ongoing accessibility of affirmative physical and wellbeing services for the IVSC community, including those with intersectional disadvantage.
- Enhance peer-led and clinical psychosocial services to meet community expectations.
- Provide evidence to support informed decision-making in clinical and peer-led settings.
- Put in place mechanisms to improve self-knowledge, service continuation, community
- Engagement and improved agency in health-seeking behaviour across the lifespan.
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