News and Media

All media enquiries, including requests for comment from the CEO, should be directed to communications@waamh.org.au or call +61(0)8 6246 3027 or 0488 661 277.   This contact is for media outlets only, for all other enquiries, please visit the WAAMH contact page.

If you have news to contribute to WAAMH's monthly newsletter, please submit your content via the online form.

Resources for journalists

Mindframe is a national program supporting safe media reporting, portrayal and communication about suicide, mental health concerns and alcohol and other drugs. Mindframe is managed by Everymind and is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Health under the National Suicide Prevention Leadership and Support Program.  

Mindframe have produced evidence-based resources developed in consultation with media professionals and peak media bodies, suicide prevention and mental health organisations, lived and living experience networks, and Mindframe advisory groups. Access resources

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Announcements

  • 10 Apr 2019

    WAAMH’s Submission to the 10 Year Plan Update

    WAAMH outlines what it welcomes in the Plan Update and areas of serious concern surrounding a lack of progress, focus and prioritisation in other areas.

  • 08 Apr 2019

    WA Market Review Submission

    This submission focuses on the development of robust markets for people with psychosocial disability. It is informed by WAAMH’s NDIS Sector Reference Group, comprehensive ongoing engagement with members and psychosocial stakeholders including consumer and carer representative organisations, and WAAMH’s WA Market Review round table event held with David Cullen, Chief Economist to the NDIS, on Tuesday 26 March 2019.

  • 21 Mar 2019

    Media Release: NDIS funding extension welcome but delays still cast doubts in WA

    WESTERN Australia’s peak body for mental health, the Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) welcomes today’s announcement from the Federal Government to extend funding for community mental health programs, which support thousands of people with psychosocial disability, while the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is rolled-out in WA.

  • 20 Feb 2019

    WAAMH Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS

    In this submission, WAAMH provides evidence to the committee about some of the most urgent and pressing issues in the context of psychosocial disability and the NDIS in WA, and the scheme's delays here in the west. We request three specific urgent recommendations are made by the committee to support the scheme to reach its objectives for people with psychosocial disability in WA.

  • 28 Nov 2018

    Complex Trauma - a vision for a treatment response to address lifelong mental health outcomes

    WAAMH in partnership with Anglicare WA and WA Council of Social Services hosted a free information evening with leading complex post-traumatic stress disorder specialist, Associate Professor Dr Roger Gurr to discuss a national fidelity-based model of treatment responses, specialist services and an evidence-based clinical model for tackling complex childhood trauma and adverse mental health outcomes and discuss implications for Western Australia.

  • 20 Nov 2018

    Balance the Basics: WAAMH Pre-Budget Submission 2019-2020

    An effort to restore balance to the mental health system, and prioritise investment in prevention and community support, has shaped WAAMH's core asks for government commitment in its Pre Budget Submission 2019 - 2020.

  • 19 Nov 2018

    Home is Where the Health is: WAAMH Submission to Draft Accommodation and Support Strategy 2018-2025

    WAAMH's submission makes 26 recommendations to the Mental Health Commission's draft Accommodation and Support Strategy.

  • 01 Oct 2018

    Media Release Mental health starts here

    WAAMH received a record number of 130 community grant applications to run events during WA Mental Health Week this year, which is fitting as this year is all about community and the various settings we go to every day where we can support the wellbeing of others, with the theme: ‘Mental health starts where we live, learn, work and play’.

  • 21 Sep 2018

    NDIS Access and Psychosocial Disability Workshop

    Watch Elspeth Jordan, from the NDIA mental health team, explain in depth the NDIS access rules for psychosocial disability (a disability caused by a person’s mental health issues) including what ‘likely to be permanent’ means, and that an episodic mental health issue can still qualify.

  • 06 Sep 2018

    Advertising Options - The West Australian Mental Health Week 2018 magazine

    These advertising spaces at very competitive rates give your service prime placement in the annual Mental Health Week magazine. WAAMH members receive a further discount!