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




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




  • Quality Improvement Ideas

    Thank you for expressing interest in our Brisbane North and Moreton Bay Regional Approach. This form is for you to share your quality improvement ideas with us. How can things be better to make sure mental health and wellbeing outcomes improve for people living in our region?

    Please note that submitting an idea is not a guarantee that your idea will be accepted or acted upon. Ideas will be reviewed and assessed  using the regional approach criteria which are built from human centred design principles to ensure best practice and meaningful outcomes for our community:

      • Desirable – aligns with joint regional needs assessment findings and other relevant policy and strategic direction.
      • Intersectionality – How does it relate to AOD or other connected areas, priority population groups?
      • Viable – the idea and its outcomes are sustainable now and into the future
      • Feasible – there are resources in the Brisbane North and Moreton Bay region to support the idea
      • Ethical – it will improve access and equity for our priority population groups and is legal/humane.

    We look forward to hearing your ideas on ways to improve mental health and wellbeing for our community.

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  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    PPiMS Member consent and contact information form

    Since 2016, the PPIMS Network has been a way for people with lived-living experience of mental health, alcohol and other drugs, and suicidality to share their voices and shape services in Brisbane North. Over the past 8 years, the Network has grown beyond providing a collective voice for people with lived-living experience, to offer training, regular updates, and co-design and advisory opportunities for issues within our region. The Network now includes members from across the country, expanding its reach beyond Brisbane North PHN’s footprint.

    Brisbane North PHN will no longer manage the PPIMS Network. To enable its further growth, seed funding has been granted to Communify (partnering with Queensland Lived Experience Workforce Network) to work with PPIMS members to shape the function and future direction of the Network.

    This survey will be used to capture your contact details, which will be provided to Communify to contact you regarding next steps for the Network’s transition. By completing this survey, you consent to the transfer of this contact information to Communify.

    If you do not want to provide your information to Communify, do not fill in this survey. Your details will not be shared without this consent.

    You can also contact Communify directly on 07 3510 2734.

  • 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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