Michelle, thank you for your support of TUHSL (Tasmanian Users Health and Support League) and designing and delivering the recent Governance Training that we had the privilege of participating in.
TUHSL has recently changed its name to IDEAL Voices; we are currently in the process of registering a new board, name and constitution.
The training you delivered was essential to helping us in developing our skills as board members, it has helped us to figure out how to work together better as a team and what our responsibilities are as a board. We have been able to overcome the conflict and poor practices that were holding us back and use our knowledge to make necessary decisions that included redeveloping our board and engaging people who are committed to consumer engagement and systemic advocacy.
The feedback we received from all of the consumers who attended was that you were fantastic; you understood our experience as people who use drugs, the sector that we work in and our different learning needs. The training helped them all in different ways because as you know everyone was working from a different level of understanding and experience. The good thing was that the training encouraged all of the participants to want to continue in their roles as advisors, representatives and advocates and to continue learning more about how they can participate to make a difference for their communities.
We are all as consumers looking forward to working together in the future to create a strong consumer organisation and we will definitely refer any of our future training needs to Leadership and Change Consultants.