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Latest News
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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.
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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.
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19 May 2025
WAAMH farewells long-serving board Chair
After more than eight years as Chairperson of the Board of Directors, WAAMH says farewell to Kerry Hawkins and welcomes Claire Timmel to the position.
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01 May 2025
Funding extension confirmed for world-renowned employment model
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health’s IPS Works team has received a funding extension from the Department of Social Services for an additional two years. The extension will allow the team to continue providing training and fidelity reviews to 50 headspace sites and two Medicare Mental Health Centres delivering the Individual Placement and Support model across Australia.
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14 Apr 2025
Federal election 2025: Mental health pledges won’t plug all the gaps
While last week’s election pledges for the mental health sector are welcome, there are inevitable gaps that won’t be filled by the major parties’ announcements. In particular, the safety net of mental health service delivery – community-based, psychosocial supports – have been overlooked.
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08 Apr 2025
Federal Election 2025: Pressure on mental health workforce acknowledged
At an early morning press conference at a headspace centre in Sydney’s west, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today announced his election commitment for mental health; while federal Minister for Health, Mark Butler, acknowledged the pressures facing Australia’s mental health workforce.