Perinatal Mental Health Alliance
The ACT Perinatal Mental Health Alliance was established in 2025 by the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT (MHCC ACT) and is supported by the ACT Health Directorate.
The Alliance aims to improve integration across services, ensure consistent and high-quality care for parents and infants, and create a sustainable framework for future perinatal mental health services in the ACT.
Its specific objectives are to:
- connect members and service providers to enhance perinatal mental health and wellbeing outcomes for new families in the ACT
- reduce system fragmentation by improving the integration of services and delivering a comprehensive service system for perinatal mental health
- focus on three key areas—residential services, screening and data, and service system improvements—to ensure a targeted and effective approach
- raise community awareness, reduce stigma and provide culturally safe, trauma-informed and accessible services
- foster collaboration among service providers, community members and government, ensuring sustainable reforms and holistic support for parents and infants.
Alliance membership
The Alliance includes representatives from:
- ACT Health
- Care
- Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives
- Domestic Violence Crisis Centre
- Families ACT
- Karinya House
- MHCC ACT
- Perinatal Wellbeing Centre
- Toora, including Parentline
- Women’s Health Matters ACT
- Youth Coalition of the ACT
- YWCA Canberra.
For more information, or if your organisation would like to become a member of the Alliance, please contact communiations@mhccact.org.au.
Online portal
The Perinatal Mental Health Alliance online portal provides a shared repository of Alliance information and a place for discussion. It is only available to alliance members.
If you are already a member, please login. If you are not a member but want to join the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance or need help, please contact communications@mhccact.org.au.