I work as a Community Case Manager for the Prahran Mission Mothers Support Program (MSP) which is a program funded by Mental Health Branch, Department…
The S.E.C.N. operates in the Eastern Sector of the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service. It is a partnership between “consumers” of mental health services…
Consumer participation in the mental health arena has grown over the past decade. This is the hard won result of persistent and considerable efforts, predominantly…
A barrier to dealing with discrimination against people with mental illness is the contradictions and paradoxes surrounding notions of 'danger' in the mental health sector.…
This workshop comprised presentations of three major instruments currently being used in outcome measurement: a measure of disability (the Life Skills Profile), a measure of…
Presenting on behalf of The Mental Health Reform Alliance, the speaker maintains that the humanisation of the mental health services is not a distant dream,…
The Sutherland Division of Mental Health has developed a model for working with clients (and their families) who are at risk of socio-geographic drift or…
The East Coast Mental Health Service shares its simple story of providing a comprehensive rural mental health service to an isolated, predominantly Maori population in…