Transforming Australia's Mental Health Service Systems
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Advocating For Mental health
Papers
As part of our brief to provide advice and inspiration on how to transform Australia’s mental health service systems, TAMHSS members have produced a range of proposals and conference presentations and submissions to government inquiries.
TAMHSS Psychosocial Support Reform
By Muriel Cummins, member of TAMHSS, 2026
Urgent safeguards needed to prevent disability discrimination in psychosocial support reform. For people with psychosocial disability, the ICF enables meaningful, contextualised assessment that reflects the complexity of mental health-related functional impairments. It should be embedded in functional capacity and support needs assessments across NDIS and broader mental health systems. This will ensure fairer access, more accurate planning, and a system grounded in participation, recovery, and rights.
Co-leadership to co-design in mental health-care ecosystems: what does it mean to us?
By Alan Rosen & Douglas John Holmes August 2022
This study aims to demonstrate how service providers, service users and their families should be able to share the co-leadership, co-auspicing, co-ownership, and co-governance, of a the mental health-care ecosystem, at every level, as it develops upwards and wider, in a process of inclusivity, conviviality and polyphonic discourse, via the overlapping phases of co-creativity, codesign, co-production, co-delivery, co-evaluation, co-research and co-replication, to achieve outcomes of co-communal or organisational
well-being.
IMHCN Optimal balance between Digital & Face to Face – Post COVID and Climate Change adversity
By Professor Alan Rosen AO October 2020
Outlining recommendations for an optimal balance between face-to-face, assertive outreach and digitally enhanced community focussed mental health services.
Joint Statement – Re-imagining mental health systems for the human future post-COVID-19
By 28 I-CIRCLE signatories 2020
The International City and urban Regional Collaborative (I-CIRCLE) is a consortium of mental health system leaders and managers founded by the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL). I-CIRCLE is a growing network for sharing lessons learned to integrate mental health capacity within the work of building vibrant, just, and humane communities.
