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  • 20 Jan 2016

    Media Release - Disability Justice Centre must stay where it is

    WAAMH together with Developmental Disability WA (DDWA) join with disability and mental health advocates today in welcoming the state government’s decision to review the operations rather than the existence or location of the Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre, following the misinformation and fear mongering about residents who absconded on New Year’s Eve and subsequently returned in the days following.

  • 07 Dec 2015

    Media Release - WAAMH welcomes improvements to the Western Australian Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Services Plan

    WAAMH has welcomed improvements made to the Western Australian Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Services Plan, which was released today, and called on the government to demonstrate its commitment by announcing how it will resource the plan.

  • 17 Nov 2015

    ERA Inquiry into the efficiency and performance of WA Prisons

    Following extensive engagement with the ERA during 2015 alongside WANADA and WACOSS, WAAMH completed a second submission to the Inquiry earlier this year. The Final Report of the Inquiry is now available and has now been provided to Parliament.

  • 16 Oct 2015

    Submission to the NDIS Act Rules and Review

    Our submission detailed the issues being faced for people with psychosocial disability in the NDIS trial sites in Western Australia. It made a number of recommendations about how the Act and Rules could be amended to equitably meet the support and advocacy needs of people with psychosocial disability including in the following areas: objects and principles of the Act, access and eligibility including permanency of disability, planning and review, ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports including recovery and clinical issues, and advocacy and support to access and navigate the NDIS.

  • 14 Oct 2015

    Mental Health Week 2015 - it's a wrap!

    Read and see all the highlights from the very successful Mental Health Week 2015.

  • 07 Oct 2015

    Mental Health Week is here!

    See what's on this week at mhw.waamh.org.au

  • 02 Oct 2015

    Call for change: justice reform for people with mental illness

    Mental Health Week is now upon us and we hope you will be joining us to celebrate by attending one of the many exciting mentally healthy events on offer. Take a moment too, to think of those who do not have the freedom to attend and add your voice to our urgent reform of the CLMIA Act.

  • 01 Oct 2015

    Mental Health Week 2015 magazine

    A lift-out distributed in The West Australian in the Health + Medicine section on 30 September contains a list of Mental Health Week events, information and great articles on the latest in mental health reform and community supports.

  • 22 Sep 2015

    Beach Sports - Mental Health Week

    Beach Sports Day - join the fun in the sun!

  • 21 Sep 2015

    Media Release - Mental Health Week has something for everyone

    Mental Health Week is nearly here! Find out what's on.