State Government Policy & Funding
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13 Feb 2021
Mental health polling results infographic 2021
This graphic represents mental health polling data collected by Painted Dog research for WAAMH. It shows around 80% of Western Australians would support a political party that increases investment in a number of mental health support programs in the community, offers more alternative services to hospitals, and decreases pressure on EDs and ambulances. Plus more stats!
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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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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.
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25 Mar 2020
Agenda Mental Health AOD Taskforce
These were the most pressing issues and agenda items discussed at the first meeting of the COVID response taskforce for mental health and AOD community services.
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10 Mar 2020
Community mental health supports vital to ease hospital pressures
THE peak body for the community mental health sector welcomes the State Government’s acknowledgement of the correlation between community services and its impact on acute demand, after stating on any given day nearly a third of inpatients occupying a mental health hospital bed are unable to be discharged because there are not enough supported accommodation or suitable mental health services based in the community.
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04 Mar 2020
Media Release - State Government’s commitment to Mental Health Commission a positive sign for mental health reform
THE Western Australian Association for Mental Health welcomes the State Government’s response to the Review of Clinical Governance of Public Health Services announced today, and particularly commends the ongoing commitment to the important leadership role played by the WA Mental Health Commission.
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19 Dec 2019
Priorities for mental health investment 2020
The State Government's mental health priority should be to develop a balanced and sustainable service mix in keeping with WA Plan's objectives - focusing first on those support types that are under-invested to balance the system.