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Nov 26, 2025

Your Experience of Service (YES) Survey results 2025

Each year, Stride invites consumers to share their experiences of using our services through the Your Experience of Service (YES) survey. Below you'll find a summary of what our consumers experience of mental health care at Stride has been in 2025.

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“[The best thing about this service was] how accommodating they are to help people like myself, who need more ‘out of the box’ styles of counselling and understanding”
– Quote from 2025 Stride Hubs YES survey

This feedback collected in this years survey helps us understand what we’re doing well and identify areas where we can improve. Feedback from last year (2024) resulted in a variety of initiatives being undertaken to improve the experiences of the people we support at Stride.

Here’s what our consumers told us in 2025:

  • 78% of consumers rated their overall experience with Stride as Excellent or Very Good over the last 3 months.
  • 87% reported an excellent or very good experience in terms of feeling welcomed, recognised, valued, and treated with dignity.
  • 86% reported an excellent or very good experience of having their personal needs met with sensitivity to their culture, gender, faith, and individual values and beliefs.

Consumers reported that Stride continues to excel in the following domains of experience…

Showing Respect

  • How the service provides the individual with a welcoming environment where they are recognised, valued and treated with dignity.
  • 87% rated their experience positively

Valuing individuality

  • How the service meets an individual’s needs (e.g., sensitivity to culture, gender, and faith, and the importance of personal values and beliefs)
  • 86% rated their experience positively

Supporting active participation

  •  How the service provides opportunities for engagement, choice, and involvement in the process of service delivery.
  • 84% rated their experience positively

The survey also highlights areas of focus for Stride over the next year:

  • Expanding access to peer support
  • Translation of psychosocial support into improved functional and physical health outcomes for consumers.