Strategic Plan 2023-28: Pillar 2 – Advocate
Building on our strengths as an organisation, we have developed a framework of 3 pillars to guide our decisions over the coming five years.
What this means for our community…
- LPV will work in partnership with research organisations and programs to ensure that people with HIV are involved in designing and interpreting HIV-related research.
- LPV will strengthen our collaborations with partner organisations to provide outreach and peer support programs to all people living with HIV and renew and establish formal partnership agreements with key representative organisations that advocate for the communities we work with.
- LPV will continue to advocate that all newly diagnosed people are referred into peer support.
- LPV will contribute to the body of peer knowledge through participation in conferences, state advisory groups, working groups, committee representations and national partnerships in which we advocate for equity and influence systems and policies that create disadvantage.
- LPV will connect with the Victorian disability sector to better understand the needs of people with disabilities who also have HIV.
- LPV will collaborate with key housing service providers to enhance their capacity to meet the needs of PLHIV experiencing housing stress and homelessness.
How you can be part of the journey…
As LPV members, clients, supporters, partner/stakeholders and people living with HIV, you can help to extend or defend the objectives of Pillar 2: ADVOCATE by:
- Joining our membership program – Here
- Volunteering your time and skills via our volunteering program and learn about our working groups – Here
- Donating to assist the delivery of services for people living with HIV that go towards improved health education and awareness, individual and collective resilience raising, capacity building, community connectivity and peer to peer support. – Here