Join our ADHD Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP)
We are excited to announce that we have set up an ADHD Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) to help us understand the constantly evolving challenges and opportunities for our ADHD community.
The aim of this panel is to help us:
Applications have closed and we are in the process of appointing six people with ADHD (or close whanau with ADHD) to join our panel and share your views with our two co-chairs, Brett Harrington and Tracey Rountree (their bios are below). Brett and Tracey will represent you at attend our Board meetings.
To ensure our panel represents our community, we are looking for a broad range of people, including parents, youth, adults, those diagnosed later in life, Māori, the Rainbow Community and other minority groups who can share their perspectives.
We expect our LEAP members to attend an online meeting and contribute an additional 2-4 hours each month.
The aim of this panel is to help us:
- shape our advocacy around key issues
- develop new services where there is a gap, or improve what we already offer, and
- improve our information sharing and communications.
Applications have closed and we are in the process of appointing six people with ADHD (or close whanau with ADHD) to join our panel and share your views with our two co-chairs, Brett Harrington and Tracey Rountree (their bios are below). Brett and Tracey will represent you at attend our Board meetings.
To ensure our panel represents our community, we are looking for a broad range of people, including parents, youth, adults, those diagnosed later in life, Māori, the Rainbow Community and other minority groups who can share their perspectives.
We expect our LEAP members to attend an online meeting and contribute an additional 2-4 hours each month.
LEAP's co-chairs
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Brett Harrington, co-chair
I’m Brett Harrington, a registered clinical art therapist specialising in ADHD and an ADHD NZ board member for nearly a decade. As a co-chair of LEAP and an adult with ADHD, I’m keen to hear from a diverse range of voices regarding how we might better respond to the needs of our ADHD community. I look forward to working with you to implement strategies that increase connectivity and advocacy for our community. |
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Tracey Rountree, co-chair
Tēnā koutou. I’m Tracey Rountree, a co-chair of LEAP. My involvement with ADHD NZ over the last ten years has been as a volunteer of ADHD NZ, coach to parents of children with ADHD and more recently as a board member. My experiences as a parent of a child with ADHD and being diagnosed as an adult with ADHD have driven my passion for advocacy and education. I am excited to be part of this collaboration to enhance the representation and understanding of our ADHD community across Aotearoa. He waka eke noa (we are all in this together). |
