BOOK | 10 – Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

Informed by the 10 Lived/Living Experience Advisory Committee, this guide was written to support poverty-reduction groups to meaningfully engage people with lived/living experience. It celebrates the potential that can be unlocked when these individuals are included and empowered to drive antipoverty work.

10 – Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience includes: 10 really good ideas for engaging people with lived/living experience; 10 stories that inspire; 10 useful resources; and 10 ways to get started. It highlights leading practices, inspires new thinking, and serves as a reminder of how critical engagement of people with lived/living experience in poverty reduction truly is.

Take Your Learning Further (links to resources from Section 4):

1. Social Inclusion Policy: Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction

2. A Guide to Creating a Culture of Inclusion: Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership

3. Toronto Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG): Application Form

4. A Case Study in Authentic Engagement: Poverty Solutions Halifax

5. First Voice Protocol: EndPovertyEdmonton

6. Creating Community: Hastings Prince Edward Poverty Roundtable

7. Lived Experience as Expertise: Regional Municipality of Waterloo

8. Nothing About Us Without Us: Lived Experience Advisory Council

9. Lived Experience in Paid Staff Roles: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (recording available here )

10. Rights-Based Participation and Accountability in Canada’s National Housing Strategy