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Latest News

  • 06 Oct 2025

    What is Individual Placement and Support (IPS)?

    There’s a powerful tool in mental health recovery which is often overlooked – meaningful employment. The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model proves that work isn’t just a paycheck. Meaningful, paid work can be a catalyst for healing, dignity, security and social connection.

  • 04 Oct 2025

    WA Mental Health Week launches in a riot of colour, community spirit

    With a splash of colour, a touch of whimsy and a whole lot of community spirit, WA Mental Health Week has officially kicked off for another year.

  • 19 Sep 2025

    Finalists for WA Mental Health Awards dedicate, innovate and inspire

    From a project to support FIFO workers’ wellbeing, to a podcast that helps women heal from birth trauma, this year’s WA Mental Health Awards finalists showcase the powerful impact that lived experience, innovation, and community-led initiatives can have on mental health.

  • 27 Aug 2025

    Vicarious Trauma in the Workplace

    Vicarious trauma can be a hidden, yet serious occupational hazard in some industries, especially for professionals working in high-stress roles. But how do you recognise vicarious trauma? And more importantly, what can you do to protect yourself and your team?

  • 27 Aug 2025

    Grant recipients receive a share of $70,000 for WA Mental Health Week

    The Western Australian Association for Mental Health has today awarded $70,000 worth of funding to more than 70 not-for-profit organisations across the state, through the 2025 WA Mental Health Week community grants program.

  • 22 Aug 2025

    Australia’s mental health could be the key to our productivity push

    As the dust settles on the federal government’s Economic Reform Roundtable, productivity has been the buzzword of the week. But why has the mental health of our workforce not been given more focus in our push for better productivity?

  • 15 Aug 2025

    Opinion: If symptoms persist, WA, it’s time to change your health system

    When the head of the Department of Health, Dr Shirley Bowen, said last week that our health system isn’t coping and we need a new model of care, she wasn’t wrong. But the real question is, why are we still saying this?

  • 22 Jul 2025

    Project to profile mental health workforce gets underway

    The Western Australian Association for Mental Health has today launched a vitally important project, to conduct WA’s inaugural community mental health workforce survey.

  • 13 Jun 2025

    WAAMH secures Australia’s international IPS status

    After more than a decade of advocacy and hard work by the WA Association for Mental Health’s IPS Works team, Australia has officially been invited to join an esteemed international group of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) providers, researchers and leaders.

  • 30 May 2025

    Ministerial action urged to build sustainable system

    In an open letter to all federal and state government health and mental health ministers, the Western Australian Association for Mental Health has joined a national call to address a historical gap in Australia’s mental health system.