Our Approach to Wellbeing - The North Brisbane and Moreton Bay Region’s Mental Health, Alcohol and other Drug, and Suicide Prevention Regional Approach 2025-2030
This page is currently being used to interact and share updates for Our Approach to Wellbeing.
To see the full report, visit Our Approach to Wellbeing - Brisbane North PHN.
What is it?
- The Regional Plan is mandated around the country by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing for all 31 PHN regions
- Requirement for Primary Health Networks (PHN) and the Hospital and Health Services (HHS) to work together to achieve these goals.
Our Approach to Wellbeing brings together people with lived and living experience, service providers, funders, and planners to improve mental health, alcohol and other drug (AOD), and wellbeing outcomes across our region. We work together across North Brisbane, Moreton Bay, and Norfolk Island to listen to our communities including people with lived and living experience to design thoughtfully and respond collectively. We are committed to ensuring mental health, AOD, and suicide prevention services are compassionate, responsive, and meet the diverse needs of every person.
Developed in collaboration with Brisbane North PHN and Metro North Health, Our Approach to Wellbeing was informed and co-designed by hundreds of voices from across the region. It is a flexible, evolving framework designed to support small quality improvements rather than follow a fixed set of actions.
What is the difference between a ‘Plan’ and an ‘Approach’?
Based on the feedback we received in consultations, we heard that:
- people felt disconnected from a static plan with pre-set actions and solutions
- people needed the approach to be more flexible and adapt in real-time that can respond to system challenges that impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing needs
- people wanted an approach that allowed for continuous learning, improvement, innovations
- And above all else, people want to feel better connected: service providers would like to feel more connected between organisations, community members would like to feel more connected to service providers.
These focus areas serve as a shared language, planning framework, and navigation tool across the system. Time-limited working groups will drive implementation through quality improvement projects.
You can contact us at mhsp@brisbanenorthphn.org.au