ACT Mental Health Peaks welcome investment into mental health
MHCC ACT is delighted to announce the appointment of Lisa Kelly as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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Lisa Kelly Appointed CEO of the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT
MHCC ACT is delighted to announce the appointment of Lisa Kelly as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Canberra Celebrates Champions at 2024 Mental Health Month Awards
The local 2024 Mental Health Month Awards have shone a spotlight on the outstanding contributions of individuals, groups, and organisations working to improve mental health and wellbeing in the ACT.
Community-managed mental health peak welcomes ACT Labor funding commitment
The MHCC ACT welcomes todays election commitment from ACT Labor for more mental health practitioners and psychologists in ACT public schools, new walk-in centres with advanced practice mental health nurses and practitioners, and a focus on an integrated youth mental health system and co-designing solutions to tackle loneliness.
ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 16 August 2024
We hope you had an opportunity for some rest and respite during the end of year holiday period. Following a Christmas shutdown period…
Statement of Priorities for Health and Mental Health Ministers Meeting
The MHCC ACT welcomes todays election commitment from ACT Labor for more mental health practitioners and psychologists in ACT public schools, new walk-in centres with advanced practice mental health nurses and practitioners, and a focus on an integrated youth mental health system and co-designing solutions to tackle loneliness.
Meet people where they’re at – candidates called to support community-managed mental health services this election
The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT (MHCC) have released their 2024 ACT election platform, calling for action on loneliness, perinatal mental health, climate change and justice.
ACT Budget keeps the dollars in-house – more funding needed for community-managed mental health services
The focus on wellbeing in this budget has not translated into new funding for community managed mental health services.
Canberrans in crisis as cost of living intensifies distress, while community funding dwindles
Demand for mental health services has never been higher, but in the lead up to the ACT 2024-25 Budget, it’s the mental health services who are asking for help.
Celebrating the inspiring stories of Canberra’s Community Wellbeing Heroes
An innovative youth body image educator, a veteran recovering from PTSD by building a likeminded community, a social welfare and mental health activist, and a young music community-builder are among the recipients of tonight’s Mental Health Month Awards.
Canberra icon lit up for the loneliness epidemic and World Mental Health Day
| Media release The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT is lighting Black Mountain Tower (aka Telstra Tower) green on 10 October for World Mental Health Day, and to advocate for …
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Celebrate Mental Health with the Launch of Mental Health Month ACT
| Media release 3 October 2023, 9.30 – 10.30am Salthouse Community Centre, Haig Park, Braddon. Talent available for comment from 9.15am. Each of us has mental health – a resource …
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ACT Budget misses opportunity for cost-effective, recovery-oriented mental health strategies
28 June 2023 | Media Release The ACT government rightly places wellbeing at the centre of their Budget measures. That it recognises mental health as key is commendable. However, this …
Lack of disability strategy funds makes for a ‘disappointing’ ACT Budget
Joint Media Release Canberra organisations representing people with disability have said the failure to deliver funding for disability strategies, especially the disability health strategy, means that this is a disappointing …
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2023 Budget: Barr Government must fund promised disability strategies
Joint Media Release Canberra organisations representing people with disability have come together urging ACT Chief Minister and Treasurer Andrew Barr to deliver on ACT Government commitments to people with disability …
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Release of landmark workforce study of ACT community-managed mental health workforce
Nearly two-thirds of people who work in mental health in the ACT are employed through charities and other community-managed organisations, according to the first comprehensive territory-wide study of the community …
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The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT supports a First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution
| Media release The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT supports the call of the Uluru Statement from the Heart for a First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution. The Mental …
Inquiry into the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023
The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT (MHCC ACT) thanks the Committee for theopportunity to provide a submission to the Inquiry into Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 Bill.This …