About the Queensland Alliance
About
The Queensland Alliance is a Non Government Organisation (NGO), which has grown to over 200 members in the past decade. The Queensland Alliance represents the Mental Health Community Sector who meet the needs of people with mental illness or psychiatric disability, including consumer groups, family and carer groups and non-government community-based service providers across Queensland. It strives to promote, strengthen and develop the growth of non-government, community-based, recovery-oriented responses to the needs of people with mental illness and psychiatric disability in Queensland.
Strategic Plan 2008-2010
Our Vision
All people are able to access a diverse range of services and resources to support their recovery and well being.
Our Mission
To promote, strengthen and develop the growth of the Mental Health Community Sector to provide community-based, recovery-oriented responses to the needs of people with mental illness and psychiatric disability in Queensland.
We Represent
The non-profit Mental Health Community Sector who meet the needs of people with mental illness or psychiatric disability, including consumer groups, family and carer groups and non-government community-based service providers across Queensland.
Our Beliefs and Values
The Queensland Alliance –
· believes in human rights, social justice and universal access to health care
· believes in the consumer inspired recovery orientation
· believes that health is not only the absence of disease, but a state of physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual wellbeing
· believes responses that are located as close as possible to a person and their community as possible will best meet their needs
· promotes the Mental Health Community Service Sector because it is comprised of organisations that are community driven and responsive to peoples’ needs
· supports the participation and contribution of people with the lived experience of mental illness in the formulation of policy and design of the service system
· believes Mental Health Community Sector organisations can provide government with an alternative to public sector services as well as complementing some needed specialised public services
· recognises our communities are diverse and that the Community Sector reflects this diversity through many and varied community organisations
· believes in human rights, social justice and universal access to health care
· believes in the consumer inspired recovery orientation
· believes that health is not only the absence of disease, but a state of physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual wellbeing
· believes responses that are located as close as possible to a person and their community as possible will best meet their needs
· promotes the Mental Health Community Service Sector because it is comprised of organisations that are community driven and responsive to peoples’ needs
· supports the participation and contribution of people with the lived experience of mental illness in the formulation of policy and design of the service system
· believes Mental Health Community Sector organisations can provide government with an alternative to public sector services as well as complementing some needed specialised public services
· recognises our communities are diverse and that the Community Sector reflects this diversity through many and varied community organisations
Our Strategic Directions 2008 - 2010
1. Promoting the Mental Health Community Sector
Promote investment in sustainable Mental Health Community Sector responses in a way that preserves sector values and models of practice.
· Promote investment in the unique and diverse range of current and emerging service responses within the Queensland community sector
· Ensure community sector values are not undermined by competitive funding policies
· Promote the validity and investment in community sector models of best practice
· Ensure investment in research and evaluation of Mental Health Community Sector responses
· Plan, advocate, develop and deliver workforce development initiatives for the community sector
· Provide timely in-depth policy analysis and responses to government policy initiatives
2. Strengthening Relationships
Develop and maintain strategic and other partnerships and networks with key stakeholders to broaden our support base and increase our influence in mental health policy development, implementation and evaluation.
· Strengthen relationships with Alliance members on a local and regional basis
· Increase awareness of Queensland Alliance, and its role in the Mental Health Community Sector, to the broader community and other sectors
· Facilitate and promote formalised working agreements between mental health community services and other key stakeholders
· Map, identify and develop potential partners
3. Building a Responsive, Member-based Organisation
Ensure the Alliance has sound governance policies, good management and quality systems, and effectively represents the membership as peak body.
· Provide regular communication at a local/regional level
· Develop transparent and clear processes and strategies for member participation
· Provide leadership within the Mental Health Community Sector including identifying and responding to systemic issues
· Achieve and maintain a quality management system.
4. Promoting Positive Representations of Mental Health
Develop strategies that will enable the organisation and its members to promote mental health and a positive representation of people with mental illness and the Mental Health Community Sector
· Support and resource members to engage with media
· Develop tools for members that will assist with positive mental health promotion and reinforce consistent language, and consistent message
· Develop a marketing strategy that will promote positive messages that involves consumers, members, carers etc
· Promote the Mental Health Community Sector and the Alliance as its peak body
Promote investment in sustainable Mental Health Community Sector responses in a way that preserves sector values and models of practice.
· Promote investment in the unique and diverse range of current and emerging service responses within the Queensland community sector
· Ensure community sector values are not undermined by competitive funding policies
· Promote the validity and investment in community sector models of best practice
· Ensure investment in research and evaluation of Mental Health Community Sector responses
· Plan, advocate, develop and deliver workforce development initiatives for the community sector
· Provide timely in-depth policy analysis and responses to government policy initiatives
2. Strengthening Relationships
Develop and maintain strategic and other partnerships and networks with key stakeholders to broaden our support base and increase our influence in mental health policy development, implementation and evaluation.
· Strengthen relationships with Alliance members on a local and regional basis
· Increase awareness of Queensland Alliance, and its role in the Mental Health Community Sector, to the broader community and other sectors
· Facilitate and promote formalised working agreements between mental health community services and other key stakeholders
· Map, identify and develop potential partners
3. Building a Responsive, Member-based Organisation
Ensure the Alliance has sound governance policies, good management and quality systems, and effectively represents the membership as peak body.
· Provide regular communication at a local/regional level
· Develop transparent and clear processes and strategies for member participation
· Provide leadership within the Mental Health Community Sector including identifying and responding to systemic issues
· Achieve and maintain a quality management system.
4. Promoting Positive Representations of Mental Health
Develop strategies that will enable the organisation and its members to promote mental health and a positive representation of people with mental illness and the Mental Health Community Sector
· Support and resource members to engage with media
· Develop tools for members that will assist with positive mental health promotion and reinforce consistent language, and consistent message
· Develop a marketing strategy that will promote positive messages that involves consumers, members, carers etc
· Promote the Mental Health Community Sector and the Alliance as its peak body
