Amplifying the voices of children and young people impacted by intergenerational trauma

LewChing’s Story

Lewching is a lived experience leader and fierce survivor advocate, shaped by her experience fleeing family violence at 19 as a queer woman of colour and first-generation migrant without systemic support and her recovery from it. She seeks to amplify the voices of children and young people through a culturally informed, intersectional lens that recognises the impacts of intergenerational trauma on mental health, suicidality, and cycles of violence.

Lewching brings transformative systems thinking to her advocacy while remaining grounded through frontline experience across early intervention mental health, student wellbeing, youth homelessness, suicide prevention, and violence prevention. She is passionate about walking alongside communities too often denied care, championing person-led, therapeutic, and coordinated system responses.

Services

Cultivating a sustainable peer workforce

Lewching can support with organisational readiness for and recruitment of a peer workforce.

Lewching also delivers consumer perspective supervision for groups and individuals.

Embedding lived and living experiences with an intersectional lens

Lewching can be a partner in co-design, drive strategy, and shape policy reform to centre the voices of consumer and survivor perspectives.

Storytelling and amplifying our voices

Lewching can contribute to candid conversations around cultural inclusion, suicide prevention, violence prevention, child and youth engagement, and intersectionality.

In 2024, Lewching founded Project Chosen Family to cultivate a peer-led space for Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) young people to discuss family violence, including boundary setting, family dynamics and establishing safety.

Affiliations

Media

Her Canberra - Project Chosen Family empowers multicultural youth to break the cycles of family violence

Mental Health Australia - Meaningful Connections Matter

Headspace - Suicide Postvention for community GPs

Safer Me Safer You - Reclaiming Our Voices

Awards and Accolades

  • International Mental Health Advocate of the Year

    Recognises and celebrate the achievements of individuals, organizations, and groups who work tirelessly to remove stigma and raise awareness for mental health.

  • 30 Under 30

    Recognises young LGBTQIA+ people making tangible contributions to bettering the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in Australia.

  • Great Ydea Award

    YWCA Canberra’s Great Ydeas Small Grants Program provides grants up to $2500 to support women, girls and non-binary people in the ACT to pursue their passions and improve communities.

  • ACT LiFE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Suicide Prevention

    Recognises the critical role that individuals and organisations in communities play in identifying and taking action in suicide prevention.

  • Young Canberra Citizen of the Year (High Commendation)

    Recognise a young person has made an outstanding contribution to their local community that has significantly contributed to the broader ACT

Let’s work together