This paper frames the structural, cultural, and service issues that inhibit good mental health and wellbeing and gender responsive mental health care for women and girls.
This paper frames the structural, cultural, and service issues that inhibit good mental health and wellbeing and gender responsive mental health care for women and girls.
The Women’s Mental Health Alliance welcomes the opportunity to make a response to inform the development of the Diverse Communities Framework and Blueprint for Action.
This submission from the Women’s Mental Health Alliance (the Alliance) responds to the Statewide Trauma Service consultation.
This submission welcomes the important inclusion of recovery from violence in the draft National Plan 2022-2032, and notes progress in relation to prevention over the previous decade. However, overall changes during this time in relation to the gendered drivers of violence against women and children have been minimal, and persistent or increasing prevalence rates are of significant concern.
The Women’s Mental Health Alliance and Women’s Health Victoria host webinars topical issues in women’s mental health.
This panel discussion was a feature of the Annual General Meeting of Women's Health Victoria, held on 25 October 2021. Leading experts explore the issues and evidence to identify how to design a better mental health system response, and build workforce capability to meet the needs of women who've experienced gendered violence and trauma.
In September 2021, the Women’s Mental Health Alliance (Alliance) asked its members to report their observations of the ongoing mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alliance members reported that women’s mental health was still being impacted by COVID-19 and associated public health restrictions.
This submission from the Women’s Mental Health Alliance (the Alliance) responds to the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Forum Summary Report.
The Women’s Mental Health Alliance welcomed the opportunity to respond to the Victorian Government consultation survey on Local Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing Services.
Women’s Health Victoria, the Women’s Mental Health Alliance and mental health consumer peak the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council have ongoing concerns about the high costs of mental health misdiagnosis to family violence survivors and the increased risk this creates to their safety.
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