"Nothing about us without us" People with Lived/Living Experience: Engagement, Participation and Empowerment

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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) together with the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC), today released a website which is part of Australia’s first suicide and self-harm monitoring system to support the national goal of working towards zero suicides.

Commissioned report examining why Australia’s mental health system is failing people presenting to the emergency department in mental health crisis, and the urgent reforms needed.

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September updates include articles on:

Dangerous Drug Alert 

How Many People In Australia Use Crystal Methamphetamine? 

Ted Ed Video: How Does Alcohol Make You Drunk? 

Forget The Stereotypes: Many Young People Are Drinking Less Alcohol In Lockdown

Are you a healthcare professional living and working in Australia?

We would love to know more about how the pandemic has affected you personally, and what strategies you have used to maintain your mental health and wellbeing over the last six months. Your behaviours, tips and advice may provide valuable insight to the rest of the country.

Click here to take the survey and please send the link to any healthcare workers in your networks.

Hearing of the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS Inquiry into NDIS Workforce:

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Joint Standing Committee NDIS Workforce Inquiry

Senate Select Committee On Covid-19

Survey on exploring structure of digital peer support.

Peer Support Organizational Structure

Routine peer support has shown to increase individuals' hope, sense of personal control, ability to make positive changes, and decreased psychiatric symptoms. Despite these benefits, the organizational structure of peer support is not known. Dartmouth College is initiating the first national survey of trained Certified Peer Specialists to help us understand the organizational structure of peer support services.

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Resources available from a number of organisations, including: 

International Association for Suicide Prevention

QMHC

MHPN

Beyond Blue

Enabling vital partnerships to ensure the COVID-19 health response meets the needs of all Queenslanders 

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Two online Workshops on the 7^th and 9^th of October, the first only with those with a lived experience of mental health and the second workshop is all stakeholders.

We are inviting people with lived experience of severe mental health and their carers from across the Healthy North Coast (Port Macquarie to the Qld Border) region to participate in one or both co-design workshops.

Contact:

Kathryn Brooks, Healthy North Coast

Email kbrooks@hnc.org.au 

or phone (07) 5589 0512