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 a Joint Regional Plan?

A Joint Regional Plan is a partnership between Primary Health Networks and Local Hospital Networks, mandated across Australia by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. It aims to improve mental health, suicide prevention, and alcohol and drug services by:

  • Working together to meet local needs
  • Avoiding gaps or duplication
  • Setting shared goals to guide funding and improve outcomes

Our Approach

Our new Joint Regional Plan - Our Approach to Wellbeing brings together people with lived and living experience, service providers, funders, and planners to improve mental health, AOD, and wellbeing outcomes across North Brisbane, Moreton Bay, and Norfolk Island.

Developed through extensive consultation, Our Approach to Wellbeing reflects the voices of our communities especially those with lived and living experience to design thoughtfully and respond collectively. We are committed to ensuring services are compassionate, responsive, and meet the diverse needs of every person.

Created in collaboration by Brisbane North PHN and Metro North Health, Our Approach to Wellbeing is a flexible, evolving framework focused on continuous quality improvement, rather than a fixed set of actions.

How We'll Work

Guided by a set of principles and four key focus areas:

  • Planning and Working Together
  • Community Awareness and Access
  • Responsiveness to Diverse Life Needs
  • Workforce and Professional Ideas.

Over the lifetime of Our Approach, we will lead locally responsive projects and initiatives shaped by quality improvement ideas submitted by community members, service providers, and system planners. These ideas will be co-designed with people who have lived and living experience, to develop solutions that drive real and meaningful change across our region.



You can contact us at mhsp@brisbanenorthphn.org.au




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 a Joint Regional Plan?

A Joint Regional Plan is a partnership between Primary Health Networks and Local Hospital Networks, mandated across Australia by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. It aims to improve mental health, suicide prevention, and alcohol and drug services by:

  • Working together to meet local needs
  • Avoiding gaps or duplication
  • Setting shared goals to guide funding and improve outcomes

Our Approach

Our new Joint Regional Plan - Our Approach to Wellbeing brings together people with lived and living experience, service providers, funders, and planners to improve mental health, AOD, and wellbeing outcomes across North Brisbane, Moreton Bay, and Norfolk Island.

Developed through extensive consultation, Our Approach to Wellbeing reflects the voices of our communities especially those with lived and living experience to design thoughtfully and respond collectively. We are committed to ensuring services are compassionate, responsive, and meet the diverse needs of every person.

Created in collaboration by Brisbane North PHN and Metro North Health, Our Approach to Wellbeing is a flexible, evolving framework focused on continuous quality improvement, rather than a fixed set of actions.

How We'll Work

Guided by a set of principles and four key focus areas:

  • Planning and Working Together
  • Community Awareness and Access
  • Responsiveness to Diverse Life Needs
  • Workforce and Professional Ideas.

Over the lifetime of Our Approach, we will lead locally responsive projects and initiatives shaped by quality improvement ideas submitted by community members, service providers, and system planners. These ideas will be co-designed with people who have lived and living experience, to develop solutions that drive real and meaningful change across our region.



You can contact us at mhsp@brisbanenorthphn.org.au




  • Share your idea

    Thank you for your interest in Our Approach to Wellbeing. This is your opportunity to share ideas that could help improve mental health, alcohol and other drug (AOD), and wellbeing outcomes in North Brisbane, Moreton Bay, and Norfolk Island.

    We’re asking:
    What could be done differently to make services more compassionate, responsive, and effective for our communities?

    All ideas go through a simple two-stage process:

    Stage 1: Exploring the Opportunity

    We look at how your idea connects with our four focus areas, community priorities, and strategic directions. If it’s not the right fit now, we may hold it for future consideration or suggest a better pathway.

    Stage 2: Assessing the Potential

    Ideas that align are then assessed using human-centred design criteria to help us understand their potential impact:

    • Desirable – Does it meet real community needs?
    • Feasible – Can it be supported with available resources?
    • Ethical – Will it promote fairness and inclusion?
    • Viable – Can it be sustained over time?

    We look forward to hearing your ideas and working together to create meaningful change.

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  • Contact Form

    Thank you for expressing interest in Our Approach to Wellbeing.
    This form helps us capture your details so we can stay in touch, share updates, and let you know about opportunities to get involved. You’re also welcome to ask us a question or leave a comment, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Launch Event Feedback Form

    Thank you for attending the Our Approach to Wellbeing Launch event at Victoria Park on Wednesday 30 July 2025. This form contains questions about your experience at this event and allows you to provide us feedback. These questions are different to the questions we provided on the day via the QR code. We appreciate you taking the time to engage with us on Our Approach to Wellbeing and look forward to working together as we progress through the next 5 years.

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Page last updated: 27 Aug 2025, 12:03 PM