SWSPHN brought together 35 key stakeholders from across the region’s mental health sector last week for the first South Western Sydney Regional Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan Implementation Network meeting.
The meeting at Campbelltown Golf Club on Wednesday, 15 March, was an opportunity for members of the network’s seven priority area working groups to connect in person (some meeting face-to-face for the first time), and to share information across working groups.
The South Western Sydney Regional Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan to 2025 is a partnership between SWSPHN and the South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD). It is being implemented with representatives of our region’s mental health sector.
The plan intends to ensure people living in our region have easy access to high quality, integrated, responsible and consumer-centred mental health services which promote, protect and improve mental health and wellbeing at the individual and community level.
The network’s seven working groups meet monthly to work on their individual priority areas which include:
- Integrating regional service delivery
- Strengthening suicide prevention and aftercare
- Coordinating treatment and supports for people with severe and complex mental illness
- Improving mental health and suicide prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Improving the mental health of diverse communities
- Supporting and developing mental health workforce
- Empowering and supporting individuals and communities
Last weeks’ meeting attracted those involved in implementing the plan.
This included consumers, carers, representatives from Aboriginal community health services, National Disability Insurance Scheme providers, private providers, GPs, mental health clinicians, commissioned service providers and staff from SWSPHN and the South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD).
At the meeting, the working groups shared their three key focuses for the next six to 12 months in what was the first opportunity for participants to hear a detailed overview of the work of the other groups.
Participants also had the opportunity to network throughout the event to improve collaboration and opportunities for subject matter experts to work across priority areas, and to better support the implementation of plan.
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