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Announcements
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22 Jan 2021
Media Release: WAAMH's Response to WA Liberals Mental Health Policy
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) today welcomed the WA Liberal Party’s 2021 State Election commitments for mental health, which demonstrates a significant and positive shift towards a person-centred approach of prevention and community support.
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16 Dec 2020
Media Release: The McGowan Government’s Young People’s Priorities for Action leaves chronic gaps unfunded
The Labor McGowan Government has missed an opportunity to immediately address the chronic gaps that would help young people in mental health distress after they released the long-awaited Young People’s Priorities for Action without any funding or election commitment today.
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14 Dec 2020
Media Release: Review highlights urgent need for investment into child and adolescent mental health
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) calls on the Government to immediately increase funding into child and adolescent mental health services as recommended by the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist WA, outlined in the Chief Psychiatrist’s Review into the Treatment of Ms Kate Savage by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services' report released today.
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26 Nov 2020
Media Release: 2020 WA Mental Health Awards winners announced
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) congratulates the winners of the 2020 WA Mental Health Awards. The Awards, which are presented by WAAMH and the WA Mental Health Commission, recognise the individuals and organisations that made outstanding contributions to mental health in the calendar year of 2019 through excellence, innovation, and initiative.
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18 Nov 2020
Productivity Commission Mental Health Inquiry Report welcomed, with prevention and community support featuring strongly
The WA Association for Mental Health welcomes the release of the long-awaited Productivity Commission Mental Health Inquiry Report. The report contains 22 recommended reforms encompassing approximately 100 actions, across a wide range of mental health services and supports. WAAMH is pleased to note a strong focus on prevention and community supports, integration of mental health services, and the social determinants of health in its initial reading of Volume 1 of the report.
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10 Nov 2020
Media Release: Rally for Mental Health today, 12pm at Parliament House
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) is taking its strongest action yet for the Prevent Support Heal campaign by gathering on the front steps of Parliament House at 12pm, today, Tuesday 10 November.
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06 Nov 2020
Increasing & Improving Community Mental Health Supports in WA
The WA Association for Mental Health and the Centre for Social Impact UWA is proud to release the ‘Increasing and Improving Community Mental Health Supports in WA’ project report This project engaged with more than 150 consumers, carers, family members and service providers about their experiences, and to codesign community support models that would meet people’s needs and support recovery.
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05 Nov 2020
Media Release: New report provides lived experience-informed models of community mental health supports
In a Western Australian first, the report, ‘Increasing and Improving Community Mental Health Supports in WA’, engaged more than 150 consumers, family members, service providers and supporters and carers, to understand their experiences of community mental health supports to inform public policy and State Government spending ahead of the WA State election.
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27 Oct 2020
Media Release: WA Suicide Prevention Framework presents a welcome vision but lacks specific details
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) has noted the long awaited Western Australian Suicide Prevention Framework 2021–2025, which includes approaches to suicide prevention, early intervention, support for aftercare, postvention, and Aboriginal people.
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21 Oct 2020
Budgets 2020/21: Mental health in the spotlight, but imbalance remains
WAAMH's commentary on the Budget announcements for 2020/21 and detailed budget breakdowns around mental health.