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What's New

MHCA Submission on Australian Government Green Paper on Homelessness

 

NGO Capacity Building Grants. Successful applicants released 12 June 2008.

Click here for full list of grant recipient organisations.

Note: Successful organisations will be sent written confirmation and further details within 7 days. If your organisation does not appear on this list, your application has been unsuccessful.

 

Engage - April 2008 MHCA Newsletter

 

Reforming Welfare to Work

Document presented to the federal Government by the Welfare to Work Collaboration.

 

CONFIDENTIALITY AND INFORMATION SHARING WITH FAMILIES AND CARERS IN MENTAL HEALTH  

A survey of mental health consumers and carers from the NMHCCF

 

MHCA ANNUAL REPORT 2006-07

 

Submission to ACCC on private health insurance practices

 

Carers Engagement Project

Report on mental health carers focus group

Project Information

 

Mental Health Consumer & Carer Mentoring Program

Project Information

Succesful Applicants Details

 

MENTAL HEALTH - FACT SHEETS

 

Mental Health and Insurance Discrimination - Survey

Survey for Consumers & Carers

 

Recent Reports

Let's Get To Work. A National Mental health Employment Strategy for Australia

Where there's smoke: Cannabis and Mental Health

Weaving the Net

 

Other

Submission to Inquiry into the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Vocational Rehabilitation Services) Bill 2006

Strategic Plan 2006-09

 

Position Vacant

Lecturer in Mental Health

 

Media Releases

30 June 2008

Australian Story highlights mental health system failures

24 June 2008

Fix mental Health and you fix Health

12 June 2008

Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health - Address at Grace Groom Memorial Lecture, 12 June 2008

12 June 2008

Government's Advisory Council will enhance mental health reform

21 May 2008

MHCA appears before Senate Committee

21 May 2008

Social Inclusion Board must recognise links to mental health

14 May 2008

Carers urged to make submissions to new inquiry

14 May 2008

Budget 2008: Mental Health Slashed?

10 March 2008

Binge drinking initiatives will help address mental illness

8 March 2008

Defence review into health services welcomed by MHCA

7 March 2008

Mental Health Carers need support

1 February 2008

Welfate to Work - End the Unfairness

21 December 2007

CoAG commitment on Indigenous mental health applauded

7 December 2007

New reports show need for national leadership in Mental Health

28 November 2007

Homeless shelter visits will inform Labor about mental health problems

27 November 2007

Rudd Government promises to deliver on mental health

12 November 2007

Australia's employment policies for mentally ill costing millions

8 November 2007

Report highlights failures of employers to deal with mental health issues

7 November 2007

Media Alert: Launch of Lets Get To Work

23 October 2007

MHCA welcomes new Aust National Council on Mental Health

23 October 2007

NSW Coroner finds systemic failure in suicide case

16 October 2007

NMHCCF Release: Mental health consumers and carers seek election policies

10 October 2007

Statement by Prime Minister John Howard on World Mental Health Day

10 October 2007

Launch of WMHD

8 October 2007

Mental Health Carers engagement project launched

Minister's release: $35 m for respite for mental health carers

3 October 2007

Autism Funding

3 October 2007

WMHD media alert

2 October 2007

Increased interest in WMHD

28 September 2007

MHCA welcomes double whammy drugs & mental health funding

Sept-Oct Newsletter

Latest media from coverage of David Crosbie/MHCA

5 September 2007

$6 m boost to mental health NGOs welcomed

16 August 2007

Ice campaign welcomed by mental health field

6 August

New Report shows massive uptake of new Mental Health services

6 August 2007

COAG Mental Health Reform

Mental Health and the new Medicare Services: An Analysis of the First Six Months

30 July 2007

NSW trial of specialist mental health units an excellent initiative

 

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