Australian Government - National Mental Health Commission

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Monitoring and Reporting
Monitoring and Reporting

A core function of the Commission is independent monitoring and reporting on the extent to which people with lived experience of mental illness are supported to live contributing lives.
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Submission to draft National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032

Reflections on a journey of change
Projects
Projects

The Commission plays an ongoing role in collaborating across the sector to drive system improvements and play a key role in monitoring and reporting on mental health reform.
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National Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy

National Workplace Initiative
Lived Experience
Lived Experience

It is through listening to those providing services, those who fund services, and most importantly, those who use services that we will find the information we need to move towards the mental health system Australia needs.
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Safety and Quality Engagement Guide

Lived Experience Workforces
National Suicide Prevention Office
National Suicide Prevention Office

The NSPO sets strategic directions, builds capabilities, supports cross jurisdiction and cross portfolio action and reports on the agreed outcomes.
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National Suicide Prevention Adviser Final Advice

National Suicide and Self-Harm Monitoring System

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Pheobe Ho

Commissioner

Pheobe has had a lived experience of eating disorders. This has led her to becoming a passionate lived experience advocate, speaker, researcher, and now Clinical Psychologist Registrar in the area of eating disorders. She has previously also worked with headspace National on the Youth National Reference Group, and as a National Youth Advisor.

Pheobe is focused on assisting others lead meaningful lives, ensuring that lived experience voices are incorporated as part of mental health service delivery, and reducing mental health stigma amongst mental health professionals. Pheobe’s areas of interest for reform include eating disorders, youth mental health, and culturally and linguistically diverse issues. Her contributions and work in the area of eating disorders and mental health more broadly saw her as a Finalist in the 2019 WA Young Achiever Awards, as well as being a Mental Health Leaders Fellow with the Commission in 2020.

Pheobe is currently on the Steering Committee of the WA Eating Disorders Subnetwork, and outside of clinical practice, continues to be a regular lived experience speaker with the Butterfly Foundation on local and national levels.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Commission acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands throughout Australia.
We pay our respects to their clans, and to the elders, past present and emerging, and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community.

Diversity

The Commission is committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of health services. The Commission welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Lived Experience

We acknowledge the individual and collective contributions of those with a lived and living experience of mental ill-health and suicide, and those who love, have loved and care for them. Each person’s journey is unique and a valued contribution to Australia’s commitment to mental health suicide prevention systems reform.