Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division
Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division (MHDTD)
The Mental Health and Drug Treatment Division brings together the department's mental health, suicide prevention, social and emotional wellbeing and substance misuse treatment policy and programs for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
The division's mission is to:
- improve the capacity of the mental health system to provide better coordinated and integrated care across the spectrum of severity of mental illness and across all groups in the community
- strengthen primary mental health care
- strengthen mental health services for children and young people
- improve social and emotional wellbeing services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- improve the transparency and accountability of mental health services nationally
- develop and implement strategies to reduce suicide rates
- better promote and support drug and alcohol treatment services to build capacity and to effectively identify and treat coinciding mental illness and substance abuse, and better support those services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from rural and remote areas.
- Mental Health Services Branch
- Mental Health Early Intervention and Prevention Branch
- Mental Health System Improvement Branch
- Substance Misuse and Indigenous Wellbeing Programs Branch
- Mental health
- Drug treatment
- Social and emotional wellbeing and Mobile Outreach Service Plus
- Stop petrol sniffing website
Page last reviewed: 30 April 2013
