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Priority Areas
Our early engagement across ACT and the community sector has identified the following mental health and wellbeing priority areas:
- increased focus on prevention and early support. This includes:
- fostering positive mental health and wellbeing across the community.
- improving general health and wellbeing (e.g. physical health promotion)
- reducing the demand on health services.
- improved holistic outcomes for people with mental illness through a renewed focus on the social determinants of health. This includes: greater access to suitable accommodation, education, employment and meaningful activity and increased social connections.
- coordinated services that ‘wrap’ around an individual, so that individuals don’t need to have to navigate the system.
- improved coordinated holistic approaches for vulnerable population groups.
- reduced suicide attempts and suicide deaths, through better integration of suicide prevention services.
- ongoing appropriate and considered Consumer and Carer engagement and participation.
- increased capacity to grow, develop and sustain an effective mental health workforce, including peer workers.
- further targeted research and evaluation.
