Lived Experience Experts

Person with headband facing away looking at the ocean
Child on the shoulders of an adult in a garden. Both facing away.
Person with short hair and glasses standing on side of the road facing away.
Two people walking away together under an umbrella in the forest.
Person with long hair on a path, facing away
Two people facing away. One is in a wheelchair and the other is leaning over towards the person in the wheelchair with their hand on the chair handle.
Three people on a wall facing away. Two are looking at the ocean and one person is taking a selfie. All are wearing head coverings.
Person with medium-length dreads and facial hair facing away. They are in a city.
Person wearing winter clothes and a backpack walking away along a lake with their small dog on a leash.
Person with long locs and a headband sitting on the ground among trees.

What is LEEG?

The Lived Experience Experts Group (LEEG) shares governance power in Health Justice. We are diverse in terms of experience, expertise, geographic location, and identities. We are friends, partners, parents, siblings, neighbours, co-workers, volunteers, and community members. In addition to the rich expertise that comes from our diversity and the breadth of our identities, we share a common experience: personal lived or living experience of involuntary treatment under BC’s Mental Health Act.

We have come together to co-lead Health Justice’s work to better support human rights in involuntary mental health and substance use treatment. We are dedicated to using our experiences to create positive change.