The medical profession still does not fully understand what causes depression. Countless studies have been conducted in the finest laboratories of the world and yet science still skirts on the outer edges of the illness. We know it is linked to levels of the brain chemical serotonin, and that some drugs and tranquillisers can have a calming effect. - Raelene Boyle

 

For Psychiatric Emergencies Please contact the Mental Health Crisis and Treatment Team (CATT) freecall on 1800-629-354, or (02)6205-1065

Committees - ACT Mental Health Consumer Network

Mental Health Consumers participating, improving and changing Mental Health services in the ACT.



Committees, Working Groups, other Meetings, and Events

A.C.T. COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
  • ACT Community Coalitition on Corrections (Open Invitation)
  • Peaks Committee
  • Women and Prisons



A.C.T. DIVISION OF GENERAL PRACTICE

  • Mental Health Advisory Committee



A.C.T. HEALTH

  • Consumer and Carer Participation Framework Working Group
  • Mental Health Project Control Group
  • Mental Health Services Plan Strategic Oversight Group (Vacant)
  • Mental Health Week Planning Committee (Seasonal)
  • Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention Implementation & Evaluation Group
  • Transcultural Mental Health Network (Vacant)


CALVARY HOSPITAL

  • 2N Continuum of Care Committee
  • Patients Safety Committee

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

  • Working Group
     

CORRECTIONS A.C.T.

  • Alexander Maconochie Centre Community Reference Group



MENTAL HEALTH A.C.T.

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group (Vacant)
  • Acute Adult Inpatient Unit Executive Reference Group
  • Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit Executive Reference Group
  • Advanced Agreements Working Group
  • Clinical Practice and Quality Improvement Committee
  • Clinical Review Committee
  • Collaboration Engagement Forum (Vacant)
  • Housing and Support Initiative Steering Committee
  • Mental Health Assessment Unit User Group
  • Mental Health ACT Community Sector Review Committee
  • Mental Health Publications Committee
  • Mental Health Recovery Group
  • Non - Smoking Policy Implementation Working Group
  • Policy (Review) Committee
  • Professional Development and Training
  • Recovery Plan Implementation Working Group (Vacant)
  • Review Advisory Committee (RAC): Review of the Mental Health Act
  • Review Advisory Committee (RAC): Forensic Working Group
  • Risk Management Executive Committee
  • Seclusion and Restraint Review Meeting
  • Seclusion and Restraint Working Party
  • Secure Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit Executive Reference Group
  • Strategic Executive Committee
  • Suicide Prevention Implementation & Evaluation Working Group



MENTAL HEALTH COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA

  • National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum



MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY COALITION A.C.T.

  • Board of Governance
  • Consumer and Carer Caucus
  • Sector Development Reference Group

 

MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION

  • Mental Health Assistance Dogs in the ACT

  

PRIVATE MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER CARER NETWORK (AUSTRALIA) - ACT COMMITTEE

  • Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia)

 

WOMEN'S CENTRE FOR HEALTH MATTERS

  • Women and Mental Health Working Group



YWCA - YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

  • Well, Able and Mobile (WAM) Steering Committee



OTHER

  • Canberra Hearing Voices Group