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Our Approach to Wellbeing - North Brisbane and Moreton Bay Mental Health, Alcohol and other drugs, and Suicide Prevention Joint Regional Approach
This page is currently being used to share updates and get interest for upcoming projects for the North Brisbane and Moreton Bay region Mental Health, Alcohol and other drugs, and Suicide Prevention Comprehensive Joint Regional Plan 2025-2030.
What is it?
The Regional Plan is mandated around the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care 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.
The four Focus Areas are:
Planning and working together
Community access and awareness
Responsiveness to diverse life needs
Workforce and professional support
Guiding Principles for Our Approach:
Embedded lived experience
Alignment with policy and strategy
Collaborative governance
Strategic partnerships
Evidence-informed decision-making
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.
This page is currently being used to share updates and get interest for upcoming projects for the North Brisbane and Moreton Bay region Mental Health, Alcohol and other drugs, and Suicide Prevention Comprehensive Joint Regional Plan 2025-2030.
What is it?
The Regional Plan is mandated around the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care 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.
The four Focus Areas are:
Planning and working together
Community access and awareness
Responsiveness to diverse life needs
Workforce and professional support
Guiding Principles for Our Approach:
Embedded lived experience
Alignment with policy and strategy
Collaborative governance
Strategic partnerships
Evidence-informed decision-making
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.
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.
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.
Brisbane North Catchment Area