Programs

Mental health programs

Alphabetical list of programs to build the capacity of the mental health care system.

A | B | C-H | I-L | M | N-O | P-Z

A

• Access to Allied Psychological Services (part of Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care)
• Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network - a network linking people across Australia concerned with the trauma, loss and grief experiences of children and adolescents.

B

• Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule
• Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care
• beyondblue: the National Depression Initiative

C-H

• Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) - promotes better mental health outcomes for children whose parents have a mental illness.
• Day to Day Living in the Community
• eheadspace - see headspace
• Expanded Medicare Healthy Kids Check
• headspace (includes eheadspace)
• headspace School Support
• Healthy Kids Check, expanded
• Helping Children with Autism Top of page

I-L

• Improving safety at 'hotspots'
• KidsMatter - supports mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention for all children through universal, evidence-based primary school and early childhood programs.
• Living is for everyone (LiFE)

M

• Medicare Healthy Kids Check, expanded
• Mental health first aid training for front line community workers
• Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA)
• Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program
• Mental Health Professionals Network
• Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas
• Mindframe National Media Initiative
• mindhealthconnect - national e-mental health online portal
• MindMatters - a mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiative to support the mental health of young people in secondary schools.
• Multicultural mental health Top of page

N-O

• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration
• National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project
• National Mental Health Service Planning Framework
• National Mental Health Strategy
• National Outcomes and Casemix Collection
• National Perinatal Depression Initiative
• National Suicide Prevention Strategy
• National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace)

P-Z

• Partners in Recovery: coordinated support and flexible funding for people with severe and persistent mental illness with complex needs
• Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
• Response Ability Education - aims to better prepare student teachers and children's services workers in mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention through multi-media packages in Australian universities, tertiary colleges and the VET sector.
• Seclusion and restraint reduction
• Suicide prevention
• Support for Day-to-Day Living in the Community
• Supporting communities to reduce the risk of suicide (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander component)
• Taking Action to Tackle Suicide
• Telephone Counselling, Self Help and Web-based Support Programs - see Teleweb
• Teleweb Top of page