View from the Peak
The Mental Health Coordinating Council’s quarterly newsletter ‘View from the Peak’ provides the latest news relevant to the mental health NGO sector. With so much happening in the sector it can be difficult to keep in touch with key issues that can impact you or your organisation, and we aim to assist you with this important task. You will find listed here current and previous issues with a few of the articles in each.
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View from the Peak
- NSW Mental Health Act Review submission
- Feature: 2012 National Report Card
- Book Review: Greying of the black dog – Managing depression growing older
- New boarding house laws and registration
- HASI continues to grow and learn
- MHCC Organisation Builder launch
- Member Profile: Care Connect
- Learning & Development update
- NSW Mental Health Act Review
- Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
- 2012 Regional Forums
- The Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
- Modelling Community Mental Health Needs
- Partners in Recovery
- Member Profile: Samaritans Kaiyu
- Spotlight on the Sector
- Learning & Development update
- Taking Our Place: Community Mental Health Australia
- 2012 Members Survey
- Improving approaches to person-centered service coordination practice
- Infrastructure Grants Program
- Member profile: JewishCare
- Implementing Supervision Practices
- Spotlight on the Sector
- Health Consumers NSW
- Organisational change project to address smoking
- Community interest in health complaints matters and mechanisms
- Innovation in the West
- Meet Your Neighbour hits the road
Autumn 2012
- Aboriginal Careers in Mental Health
- NSW Mental Health Act review
- Drug and Alcohol Research Network
- Mental Health Professionals Network
- MHCC Gets Green
- MHCC/ACON, offering peace of mind
- MHCC Injury Management Project
- Hoarding and Squalor roundtable
- Meet Your Neighbour
- Modelling community mental health needs
- Member Profile – Wayside Chapel
- Housing and mental health
Summer 2012
- MHCC Activities at a glance
- Get involved in your Medicare local
- Feature: Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship
- Australia Centre for Disability Law: report
- Learning and Development – what’s new?
- Member profile: PRA
Spring 2011
- MHCC Activities at a glance
- Self-directed funding: NDIS
- Physical Health Forum
- Risk assessment compliance during transitions of care
- MHCC Regional Forums
- Trauma Informed Care & Practice
- A diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Domestic Violence: coming out of another closet
- Meet Frank Quinlan
- The Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Research Network
- Supporting good mental health in aged care
- MHCC @ TheMHS
Autumn 2011
- What is a Mental Health Commission?
- Cross-sector relationships making connections
- National one-stop NFP regulator
- Infrastructure grants making a difference
- Online mental health rights
- Setting the standards for CMOs
- ehealth – the pros and cons
- MHCC Regional Forums
Summer 2011
- Crackers and Jam - performing on the road to recovery
- The shape of things to come for CMO mental health services in NSW
- Recovery - a carer perspective
- New Chairperson for MHCC
- The power of many - lived experience and peer workforce
- MHCC helping you get ready for data upgrades
- Health Reform, Medicare Locals and get to know your local GP Division
- Meet Pam Rutledge
- Member Profile - ACON Counselling and Enhanced Care Services
Spring 2010
- Creating a research agenda for our sector
- Delays in Inquiries causes for concern
- Falling through the cracks
- What is community?
- Round 4 for PHaMs
- Still no guarantees of service
- Supporting women survivors of child abuse
- Services for people with intellectual disability in contact with the criminal justice system
- Meet Judi Higgin
- Member Profile National Assoc for Loss and Grief (NALAG) NSW
Winter 2010
- Trauma Informed Care
- NGO Department in NSW to help drive reforms
- New Aboriginal reference group to guide MHCC
- Two Homeless Action Plans will fund mental health projects
- What is happening with the Data Management Strategy
- Partnerships - not as simple as it sounds
- Keep Them Safe, keep them waiting
- MHCC maps future growth
- Focus on working safe
- Meet Karen Burns
- Member Profile Break Thru People Solutions
Autumn 2010
- Linking physical and mental health
- Better Access update
- NGOs accessing MBS funding
- Work and Development Order scheme
- Government rejects human rights charter
- Still facing the same barriers
- Getting the message to front line workers
- Meet Sue Sacker
- Member Profile HOME in Queanbeyan
Summer 2010
- National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy
- Mental Health Advocate is Australian of the Year
- CTOs and the Law
- Disadvantaged by location
- NGOs face challenges in future funding
- Incorporated Association becoming a Company Limited by Guarantee
- Meet Sylvia Grant
- Member Profile Black Dog Institute
Spring 2009
- Managing OH&S Risk
- NGO driven research
- Changes to Association Legislation
- Productivity Commission Report on Not For Profit sector
- Homelessness Action Plan
- Family Options
- Residential AOD treatment and mental health for young people
- Meet John Malone
- Member Profile - GROW
Winter 2009
- MHCC wins Gold TheMHS Award
- The Funding Rollercoaster
- Data Management Strategy
- New Life for Embark Cottage
- National Human Rights
- Meet Phil Nadin
- Member Profile NSW Consumer Advisory Group - Mental Health Inc
Autumn 2009
- How long is a piece of string?
- Mainstreaming men's mental health
- Dealing with unreasonable complaint conduct
- Let's talk about sex
- Outside In Conference wrap
- Working with complexity - the Victorian experience
- Meet Leone Crayden
- Member Profile On Track Community Programs
Summer 2009
- First do no harm! - Iatrogenesis and mental health
- The road home: a national response to reducing homelessness
- Lessons on non-profit partnerships
- Challenging the culture of smoking and mental health
- It's along way to the top if you wanna stop
- The Garling Report
- Meet Cathy Kezelman
- Expanding the range of Community Living Rehabilitation Options
- Member Profile: St John of God Health Care
Spring 2008
- Mental Health Recovery Philosophy into Practice - A workforce development guide is here
- MHCC wins Mind Matters Award for LDU
- Scenes from the 2008 AGM and CEO Forum
- Where there's smoke, there's fire!
- Evidence based practice in mental health services
Winter 2008
- Mental Health NGO Sector Mapping Project
- Long Bay Forensic & Prison Hospital update
- Building partnerships and relationships with aboriginal communities
- Health Care Complaints Commission
- Mental Health Drug & Alcohol Change Management Project update
- My Health Record - now for use with mental health services
- What is clinical practice anyway?
Autumn 2008
- Headspace makes headway
- Ethics of poaching staff
- Mapping the difference
- Carer respite coming
- LDU launch
- Medicare mental health figures
Summer 2008
- Infrastructure Grants Program
- New MH Work Qualifications 2009
- Better Access to MH Jobs
- Social inclusion and NGOs
- The right to advocate
- Programs Update – who got what?
Spring 2007
- Mental Health Act becomes Law
- RTO & Beyond LDU update
- Consumer of the Year Awards
- Infrastructure Projects in NSW
- Mad Pride Event
Winter 2007
- MHCC hosts CEO forum
- Yarning about mental health
- Aboriginal mental health work practice
- Show me the money
- New funding initiatives in our sector
- CSTDA funding crisis
- Find that statistic...fast!
Autumn 2007
- MHCC celebrates QIC accreditation
- Postcodes of poverty
- What’s happening with workforce development
- Call to NGOs: Conference recap
- What’s happening with the Accord?
Summer 2007
- New money for wish lists
- Mental Health Act review
- Mental Health is about Social Inclusion
- Welfare to Work forum a success
- MISA pilot project
- Where is Healthelink up to?
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