Agenda:
"Let’s Yarn About Sleep" (LYAS) is a consumer-centric sleep health initiative dedicated to achieving sleep health equity through community leadership, integrating diverse worldviews, and building local capacity. This collaborative approach ensures that all stakeholders are part of the solution, fostering ownership, inclusion, and shared responsibility. In this webinar, part of the International PPI Network: Learning Live webinar series, the presenters will explore the origins of "Let’s Yarn About Sleep", reflect on the program's progress, and present the community engagement framework to promote best practices in community-based research. The LYAS program is developed in close collaboration with community members and service providers, ensuring culturally appropriate and effective solutions. It is deeply rooted in community engagement and guided by community elders. The program involves consumers, hospitals, health services, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organizations, First Nations health and wellbeing services, and leading advocacy groups. The program's innovation lies in empowering end-users, privileging First Nations voices, integrating interdisciplinary expertise, and employing diverse research methodologies. Key achievements include Australia's first Indigenous Sleep Coach training, creating research roles for community members, training and upskilling the health workforce, developing service delivery models, and integrating sleep health programs in remote schools and health services.