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TiPS Graduate

Lev Lu

he/him/his

About

Professional Title

Mental Health Worker & Digital Content Creator

Locations

  • All of Victoria

Areas Of Expertise

  • Community and Youth
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing

Presentation Topics

  • Mental Health
  • Neurodiverse perspectives
  • Youth Engagement

Socials

Open to Negotiating Fees

No

Biography

With a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) qualification from Deakin University, I’ve been working professionally in the mental health and disability sector in various roles. This includes: group logistics and facilitation in a Psychosocial Support Service (PSS), NDIS Psychosocial Recovery Coaching and Mental Health Support Work.

Related volunteering background:
- Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) member with headspace Sunshine
- Co-developed trans and gender diverse (TGD) inclusive practice guidelines with clinicians.
- Co-developed bi-lingual mental health resources.
- Developed social media content for LGBTIQA+ and mental health advocacy.

- Facebook Support Administrator with Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria (ADAVIC)
- Provision of online, non-clinical mental health support, resources and referral.
- Social media moderation and community building.
- Trained new administrators on the team.

Other experience:
- Seven years of experience in digital content creation through various mediums. This includes website design, short films, vlogs, blogs, fictional stories, podcasting and participating in web series. I am self-taught and use it as creative outlets for advocacy and storytelling.
- Written, produced and directed two LGBTIQA+ short films.
- Written, produced and directed a short film about social anxiety.
- Host and producer of the 'Stories From A Lionheart Phoenix' podcast.
- Wrote and published over 100 blog posts.
- Co-researcher at York University in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & professional Studies.
- Transforming lived experiences into songs through collaborative songwriting.
- Developing transgender education curriculum for teacher candidates and undergraduate students in childhood studies programs.

Experience

- Extensive experience held in facilitating groups in the non-clinical mental health space (i.e., peer and community based support services). I ran kickboxing, online games and LGBTIQA+ peer support groups.
- Delivered a speech to year twelve students at a study camp about ‘Redefining Success’ as part of youth advocacy with headspace.
- Invited to speak at the Canadian Society for the Study Of Education (CSSE) conference as a co-researcher of trans and gender diverse (TGD) research.
- Invited to co-facilitate songwriting workshops at the University of Toronto as part of arts-based research.
- Participated in a community TV interview with Bent TV on ‘The T on the T: Trans in Conversation’.
- A Community Ambassador who participated in Genwest’s Take Up Space web series on season one and two.

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