Awards & Recognition
Leadership in Lived Experience Award 2024
(Noelene Armstrong) – NT Mental Health Awards
All Award Winners
- Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing – Lazarus Manbulloo
- Innovation in Practice and Workforce Development:
- Winner – Hoops 4 Health: Alice Springs Prison
- Special Commendation – Team Health: Two Way Peer Mentoring
- Integration and Collaborative Practice – It is In Our Hands, First Nations Research and Policy Collective
- Leadership in Lived Experience – Noelene Armstrong, NT Lived Experience Network
NT Human Rights Award 2023 – joint winner of Justice Award
NTLEN is announced as joint winners of the Justice category for the 2023 NT Human Rights Awards
On Thursday the 7th of December, we were awarded joint winner of Justice Award at the NT Human Rights Awards – ‘the Fitzgeralds’.
Our award recognizes more than three years of unfunded systems advocacy that we have performed through consultations, surveys, submissions and advocating for our community to have a seat at the ‘tables of decision making’.
We have been determined to create an independent, representative and collective voice for our community. We continue to advocate for the recognition and resourcing of a NT lived experience representative body to inform NT and national level decision making.
Watch our acceptance speech to further understand the importance of our advocacy and the importance of this award to our movement.
ANU Centre for Mental Health Research Lived Experience Research Medal 2023 (Noelene Armstrong)
Announcement from Associate Professor Michelle Banfield (Head, Lived Experience Research Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University):
It gives me great pleasure to advise you that you are the 2023 winner of the ANU Centre for Mental Health Research Lived Experience Research Medal. Congratulations!
The medal was originally created by my mentor, Prof Kathy Griffiths, and I reinstated it after a few years of it not being offered. There are few opportunities for lived experience researchers to be recognised for the unique work we do, and the investment of ourselves that comes with it. It delights me to see these hidden gems come forward each year for the medal. I wish I could award more!
The medal was judged by people from my lived experience network, and I will share a couple of their comments:
[Noelene] is creating a space for research as well as undertaking the research in a very thoughtful manner. Her submission outlines a truly lived experience directed response, inventing on the ground floor- a hard job considering the local conditions that she’s under and the difficulties that she is encountering with the system in NT… She demonstrates that she is determinedly lived experience driven academic thoughtfully questioning how to conduct research in a way that allows the voice of research participants to be truly heard.
Noelene – demonstrated strong individual initiative and leadership – stand-out especially in translation of research and local community impact. Great diversity of community inclusion. Strong collaborations… Has demonstrated overcoming adversity to continue contribution to community. Role model as an authentic community-based researcher.
Rights on Show 2022 – Judges Award
During 2022, we commenced the “Stories of Healing and Recovery” project, for the purpose of creating visible role models for recovery from mental ill-health and addiction. Using mostly our own funds supplemented by a small grant, we worked with a professional photographer in October 2022 to collect portraits of some of our advocates. This is the first step in a creative project to share local stories of recovery and healing in print and online.
We submitted a collection of portraits of our lived experience advocates to the 2022 Human Rights on Show exhibition and won the Judges Award. Alongside each advocate’s portrait we included our rights, as outlined in the Mental Health Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
