UDRH Mental Health Program (Staff)Project commencement date:June 2007
Project completion date:June 2008The 2006 Federal Budget included $1.9 billion for a mental health reform package to improve services for people with a mental illness, their families and carers. This funding also represents the Australian Government's commitment to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) National Action Plan on Mental Health. The Mental Health Project, running from June 2007 through to June 2008, is one of the projects being funded under this mental health reform package.
In conducting the Mental Health Project the University must, specifically, employ a mental health academic to operate within the University Department of Rural Health and to undertake academic work, teaching, management of students undergoing clinical placements in addition to:
- to work to increase community access to mental health services;
- to work to ensure that other health professionals in their region are better equiped recognise mental health problems in individuals and take appropriate action;
- engage with local communities to increase awareness about mental health issues in regional and remote Australia;
- to assist to create clinical training capacity providing places in mental health disciplines, as announts through the COAG process.
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