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Latest News
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10 Oct 2025
WA Mental Health Award winners celebrated on World Mental Health Day
As communities across the globe mark World Mental Health Day, the winners of the 2025 WA Mental Health Awards have been announced at a gala celebration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.