Rafi Armanto
Rafi Armanto (he/him) is the Head of Lived Experience at Orygen, and is a lived experience worker, international speaker, and specialist in the field of lived experience work in youth mental health.
As the Head of Lived Experience, Rafi provides strategic leadership in developing organisational structures for the lived experience workforce, and drives youth and family inclusion initiatives at all levels of the organisation.
Rafi’s leadership and work in this space is informed by his experiences engaging with the mental health system as well as of being a peer worker informed by Intentional Peer Support principles. Rafi also has an interest into research of peer work implementation into youth mental health settings and the application of peer workforces in non-traditional mental health settings.
