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"Our future in our hands" - Creating a sustainable National Representative Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
A new representative body independent from government, with an equal number of men and women in leadership roles and reliance on strict ethical standards are among the key elements of a ground-breaking new approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs proposed by a Steering Committee led by Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma.
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ARE ALL JOBS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH? THE IMPACT OF WORK STATUS AND WORKING CONDITIONS ON MENTAL HEALTH
This chapter presents new evidence on the evolution of work-related mental illness
in OECD countries and on the role that new work patterns have played in affecting it. Despite the steep rise in disability benefit receipt for mental illness in many countries, available indicators do not suggest an overall increase in mental health problems among the working-age population across the OECD area. However, mental health appears to have worsened in certain countries and for certain workforce groups, while the reported incidence of certain potentially stressful working conditions has increased in Europe. |
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Community Services Sector Charter
Finalised in August 2007, the Community Services Sector Charter is a document that has been prepared on behalf of the Queensland Community Services Sector to define and communicate to other sectors of society (Government, business and community) - what the Queensland Community Service sector is, and to raise awareness of its vital role and invaluable contribution to society.
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Consumer Voice Project Convention Report
Queensland Alliance is committed to consumer participation in mental health service planning and policy development. The Queensland Consumer Advisory Group (QCAG) was Queensland Health’s mechanism for receiving advice on mental health policy from consumer and carer perspectives. This group was disbanded in June 2004. The Alliance engaged in discussions with Queensland Health about what should replace QCAG. After eighteen months of discussions, Queensland Health agreed to provide resources to Queensland Alliance to undertake a state-wide consultation with consumers and carers about a new mechanism to provide advice to the Queensland Government from consumer and carer perspectives.
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Garnaut Report into Mental Health and Climate Change
This paper considers how climate change may affect rural Australian mental health. Rural Australians live with various systematic disadvantages and many feel marginalised; climate change, especially drought, has worsened this. With drier conditions and more severe droughts expected in much of southern and eastern Australia over coming decades, and the demands for change and adaptation that this will present, we urgently need to understand the likely consequences for the mental health and wellbeing of people in rural Australia.
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Global Madness: A Journey of A journey on Policy Influence and Social Inclusion
As a result of being awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2007, Global Madness madness was the experience of traveling through five countries in 60 days, visiting 35 mental health organizations and interviewing more than 100 people.
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Home truths: mental health, housing and homelessness in Australia
Probes the relationships between housing, homelessness and mental health, considers appropriate models to support and accommodate people experiencing mental illness, and contains strategies and recommendations to provide as well as support housing for these people.
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National Mental Health Report 2005
The National Mental Health Report 2005 is available for download at the Department of Health and Ageing's website.
The National Mental Health Report 2005 is the ninth report in a series that has monitored the progress in mental health reform under the National Mental Health Strategy from 1993 to 2003. It presents data from 2002-03 and highlights the significant structural reform that has occurred over the course of the first ten years of the National Mental Health Strategy. |
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Papering Over the Cracks: The Veneer of Prevention
The Report From The QPPD Community Investigation Into The abuse, assault and neglect of people with a disability receiving services provided or funded by Disability Services Queensland (DSQ).
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Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health in General Practice
Auseinet, in partnership with the Australian General Practice Network (AGPN), has undertaken a range of activities designed to build the capacity of the general practice sector.
'The Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health in General Practice' monograph series provides an overview of the best available evidence to date on the conceptual framework for promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches to mental health, and its application to children and older people, with specific reference to identifying mental health problems early, assessing risk factors and enhancing protective factors. The overviews also include interventions with individuals, parents, families and carers where appropriate, that can be implemented in the general practice context. This series is now available (free download) from the Auseinet website. |
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QLD Law Reform Commission Guardianship Review
Stage One of the Law Reform Commission's Guardianship Review is complete as of October 2007.
See the website below for the following resourses. -Public Justice, Private Lives: A New Approach to Confidentiality in the Guardianship System (Vols 1 and 2) -Public Justice, Private Lives: A Companion to the Confidentiality Report -A new approach to confidentiality: A guide for people who may need help with decision-making (pamphlet) -A new approach to confidentiality: A guide for families, friends and advocates (pamphlet) |
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Queensland Allliance Report on Tender Process
Report on Member Feedback on Tender Process for Non-Government Mental Health Services
Prepared for the Honourable Gordon Nuttall, Minister for Health, by the Queensland Alliance of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Disability Groups on 10 June 2004. |
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Supporting LBGT Lives: A Study of the Mental Health and Well- Being of LGBT people
This research is the most significant study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) mental health and well being in Ireland to date.
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The Overburden Report: Contracting for Indigenous Health Services
A report by the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) launched this week has found that complex and fragmented funding of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) impedes their ability to provide the best possible primary health care services.
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The economic impact of youth mentalillness and the cost effectiveness of early intervention
Access Economics was commissioned by the headspace Centre of Excellence in Youth
Mental Health, part of Orygen Youth Health Research Centre to estimate the cost of youth mental illness in Australia and the potential cost effectiveness of early intervention in youth mental health. |
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Towards a Theory of Perspective Enhancement for
School of Human Services, Faculty of Health
Griffith University Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy |
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Who We Are
The QLD Alliance initiated a project, completed in 2008, to 'map the sector'. Who are we? Find out by reading the report.
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