WAAMH influences national NDIS policy through CMHA

NDIS policy is a national affair. WAAMH’s primary strategy to influence these federal policy settings is to provide advice and channel Western Australian voices to contribute to the work of the community sector’s national peak – Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA).

CMHA is small but influential and very active in federal Parliament, committee and submission processed. CMHA leadership has a seat at the table in influential committees and reference groups.

CMHA has played a key role in winning some of the changes the NDIA has recently announced to pricing and the NDIS for people with psychosocial disability, and the nature of these changes.

Just some of their influential submissions on the NDIS, which WAAMH contributed to, include:

For more details about CMHA’s advocacy, head to: https://cmha.org.au/