Caro Swanson

Caro Swanson supports the mental health and addiction workforce to be effective for and responsive to the people who use services. She provides a service user perspective and lens for Te Pou’s work, especially on service user inclusion, participation, leadership, and workforce development.

She worked in mental health and addictions for 12 years now in service user roles including consumer advisory, auditing, governance, peer support, project management, training, facilitation, consultancy, evaluation, resource development, advocacy, writing, supervision and mentoring, and quality improvement. She has wide life experience in many facets; the driving force for the work I do now is my own life-long resilience journey involving mental illness and navigating mental health services.