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Resources for journalists
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Announcements
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05 Apr 2017
Mental health incoming brief for Minister for Mental Health Roger Cook MLA
Mental health incoming brief for Minister for Mental Health Roger Cook MLA
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14 Mar 2017
Labor has won the election - what does this mean for mental health reform?
WAAMH congratulates Mark McGowan’s Labor Party on its election to government in WA. We are especially pleased with Labor's commitment to reform the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act in its first year in office, to retain a Mental Health Minister and the Mental Health Commission, and to focus the efforts of the Commission on delivering on the Ten Year Mental Health Alcohol & Other Drugs Plan. However, we are not seeing in Labor’s mental health election platform the shift in investment toward prevention and community services.
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09 Mar 2017
Mental health election commitments
WAAMH has compared what each major political party is offering for mental health heading into the WA election on 11 March 2017.
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02 Mar 2017
Media Release - WA Mental Health Award categories announced and nominations open
NOMINATIONS for the Western Australian Mental Health Awards 2017 are open with eight categories representing the diversity of mental health practice in WA.
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23 Feb 2017
Media Release: WAAMH welcomes some parts of Labor's mental health policy but crucial reforms still missing
WAAMH welcomes several elements of Labor’s mental health policy, but would like to see a more solid commitment to community services, housing, prevention, recovery-focused, person and family-centred services.
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20 Feb 2017
Make Mental Health Count in this State Election - access resources to make your voice heard
Make your voice heard during the final weeks of the election campaign. We have tailored advocacy resources for mental health services and carers, consumers and family members to help you convey your needs, issues and solutions.
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13 Feb 2017
WAAMH Submission on Seniors Housing Strategy
This submission is a response to the Housing Authority’s Seniors Housing Strategy Discussion Paper, dated November 2016. We highlight housing issues for older people with mental health issues that are not adequately addressed in the Discussion Paper.
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23 Jan 2017
Media Release - IPS WORKS to support headspace with employment model
WAAMH's service IPS WORKS has been contracted by the Department of Social Services to provide Individual Placement and Support (IPS) support to 14 new headspace sites participating in the national IPS youth trial.
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05 Dec 2016
Media Release - Inquiry points to work still to do on NDIS and psycho-social disability
WHILE the future governance of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Western Australia was recently decided, there are still key issues relating to psycho-social disability under the scheme which need to be addressed.
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01 Dec 2016
Media Release - WAAMH welcomes Senate Inquiry recommendation to abolish indefinite detention
AFTER more than a decade of lobbying for the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act to be amended, Western Australia’s peak body for mental health, the WA Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) has welcomed the long awaited Senate’s report on the indefinite detention of people with disability or psychiatric impairment.