Mental Health Victoria submission - Victoria's 10 Year Mental Health Plan
September 2015
Mental Health Victoria held a series of consultation forums to canvass views from providers to inform input to the review of MHCSS, and the development of the State Government's 10-year Mental Health Plan.
Information from these consultations has been collated to contribute to Mental Health Victoria's feedback to the consultants. The submission by Mental Health Victoria is available here.
- ABOUT THE 10YR PLAN:
The Andrews Government committed to develop a new 10-year plan for mental health in its first year of office, as part of the Labor Party's election platform.
Subsequent announcements indicated that the 10-year strategy will:
- build on the reforms of the past, and guide investment towards creating the conditions for Victorians to experience their best mental health, whatever their level of need and in a life that has meaning and value for them, and
- focus on the specialist mental health treatment system and prevention, early intervention, social support and primary care.
Part of this process included public consultations, and a discussion paper that invited input into the develpment of a new strategy with a long-term vision for mental health in Victoria.
The discussion paper is accompanied by a series of technical papers examining key issues and the experience of particular vulnerable groups in more detail:
- Alcohol and other drugs dual diagnosis technical paper mental health
- Housing and homelessness technical paper mental health plan
- Improving the physical health of people with a severe mental illness technical paper mental health plan
- Intellectual disability technical paper mental health plan
- LGBTI people technical paper mental health plan
- Mental health and Aboriginal people and communities technical paper mental health plan
- Mental health and wellbeing of children technical paper mental health plan
- Mental health and wellbeing of older people technical paper mental health plan
- Mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 12 to 25 technical paper mental health plan
- People from refugee backgrounds including asylum seekers technical paper mental health plan
- Suicide prevention technical paper mental health plan
- Trauma and mental health technical paper mental health plan
More information on the Government's priorities for mental health is available on the Department's Click here.
For more information see a media release by the Minster for Mental Health.
