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ACT Budget keeps the dollars in-house – more funding needed for community-managed mental health services   
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Meet people where they’re at – candidates called to support community-managed mental health services this election.

MHCC ACT Seeking Member Feedback on 2024 Election Platform
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Canberrans in crisis as cost of living intensifies distress, while community funding dwindles  
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 9 February 2024
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Psychological crises are not a crime. Why are so many police attendances mental health related?
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 19 January 2024

Expressions of Interest are open for the ACTHD & MHCC Outcomes Advisory Panel

2022-23 Annual Report
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 8 December 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 24 November 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 10 November 2023

Notice of 2023 Annual General Meeting
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Celebrating the inspiring stories of Canberra’s Community Wellbeing Heroes 
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Black Mountain Tower is a reminder that we’re all in this together

It has been 30 years since the First National Ment...
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 27 October 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 13 October 2023
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Canberra icon lit up for the loneliness epidemic and World Mental Health Day  
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 29 September 2023
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Celebrate Mental Health with the Launch of Mental Health Month ACT
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 15 September 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 1 September 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 18 August 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 4 August 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 20 July 2023

2023 Mid-year Forum: Weathering the Storm – Climate Change and Mental Health
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 6 July 2023
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Lack of disability strategy funds makes for a ‘disappointing’ ACT Budget
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ACT Budget misses opportunity for cost-effective, recovery-oriented mental health strategies  
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 22 June 2023
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2023 Budget: Barr Government must fund promised disability strategies
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 9 June 2023
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Release of landmark workforce study of ACT community-managed mental health workforce
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Inquiry into the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 28 April 2023
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The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT supports a First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 16 April 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 30 March 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 16 March 2023
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Gender segregation causing inadequate remuneration for our sector
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 2 March 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 16 February 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 2 February 2023
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 19 January 2023
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Embracing only the biological ignores the psychosocial, to the detriment of all

In recent decades, the discussion around mental he...
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 22 December 2022
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Crucial mental health services forgotten by government, likely to close
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 8 December 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 24 November 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 10 November 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 27 October 2022
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There’s a better model of care for the ACT

It has been 30 years since the First National Ment...
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‘Wellbeing’ Budget largely ignores mental health
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 13 October 2022
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Launch of Mental Health Month ACT 2022
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Coming through the other side
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Acting CEO speech to MHFA Mental Health Month launch event

Acting CEO Corinne Dobson speaks on the importance...
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 29 September 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 15 September 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 1 September 2022
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Focus needed on the jobs and skills that support everyone
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Small steps for progress on older persons’ mental health
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 18 August 2022
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Homelessness and mental health: connected and both failed by government inaction
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 4 August 2022
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ACT Budget investments in mental health are welcome, but mainly for bandaid solutions

Working on our workforce: 2022 Mid-year forum wrap-up
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 21 July 2022
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COVID positives: closer communities improving mental wellbeing
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 7 July 2022
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The data is in; now we need action on mental health
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 23 June 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 9 June 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 26 May 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 12 May 2022
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Lack of funding to leave Canberrans with mental health conditions without support
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Long game of mental health recovery can’t be played with short contracts
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 28 April 2022
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Election focus on NDIS ignores needs of majority of people with mental illness
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 14 April 2022
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Greens election focus on mental health welcome, but not enough for the community-based workforce
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MHCC ACT urges all candidates to make mental health an election priority
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 31 March 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 17 March 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 3 March 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 17 February 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 3 February 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 20 January 2022
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Exhausted, over-stretched and under-staffed: increased support needed for pandemic’s frontliners
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 6 January 2022
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 23 December 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 9 December 2021
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Longer-term investment needed in recommendations for COVID-19 response report
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 25 November 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 11 November 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 28 October 2021
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MHCC ACT Sector Outreach Initiative
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 14 October 2021
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Celebration of success as ACT mental health Recovery College wins award
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MHCC ACT supports Motion from Michael Pettersson MLA on ACT Mental Health
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ACT Budget: Mental health supports
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 30 September 2021
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The Community welcome Government support for the mental health of Canberrans
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Stronger consultation needed for ACT Government budget announcements
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 9 September 2021
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Funding for community mental health services a welcome relief under lockdown
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 26 August 2021
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Hands off our charities: MHCC ACT joins the call to protect advocacy for those who need a voice
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 12 August 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 29 July 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 15 July 2021
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Community Sector celebrates win as NDIS Independent Assessments are scrapped
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Increased funding needed to ensure the mental health and wellbeing of the Canberra community are met
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Community Sector unites in opposition to NDIS changes
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 1 July 2021
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Raise the Age and address social determinants for children’s mental health and wellbeing
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 17 June 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 3 June 2021

Reconciliation and Trauma
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Celebration of success as ACT mental health Recovery College two-year trial ends

Lived Experience Committee Help Guide MHCC ACT Decision Making and Advocacy
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 20 May 2021
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Increases in Federal Budget for mental health are missing the opportunity for an integrated system
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 6 May 2021
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Successful trial of ACT mental health Recovery College comes to an end
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 22 April 2021
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Proposed changes to NDIS will impact mental health and wellbeing of participants
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Positive mental health outlook for social housing project that supports Canberra women
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 8 April 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 25 March 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 11 March 2021
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MHCC ACT welcomes Bec Cody, former MLA as new CEO
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 25 February 2021
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JobSeeker will push people below the poverty line causing concerns for mental health and wellbeing
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MHCC ACT pledges to a united and consistent voice on mental health in the ACT
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Call to consider the impact of housing design on people’s mental health and wellbeing
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 11 February 2021
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Expansion of ACT housing and homelessness services will benefit mental health and wellbeing
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Investment in mental health services welcomed by community sector
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 28 January 2021
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 21 December 2020
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 10 December 2020
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Enhanced Communication for NFP’s
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 26 November 2020
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ACT Mental Health Sector Update: 12 November 2020
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EO Musings: July 2020
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The Science of Wellbeing
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“Peer work in Australia: A New Future for Mental Health” A reflection by Erin Cargill

EO Musings – August 2019
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EO Musings: August 2019
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Rachel Perkins on matters recovery and Recovery Colleges
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EO Musings: June 2019
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