Restrictive Practices – Report

Restrictive Practices – Report

BEING has released a report looking into the use of restrictive practices, including chemical and physical restraint, in the NSW mental healthcare system. BEING believes that restrictive practices should be minimised as much as possible with the goal of removing them...

2024 Nominations open to join the BEING board

Members of BEING Mental Health Consumers Ltd (BEING) may now offer themselves up for election to the board of directors at the upcoming AGM on Thursday 7 November 2024.   As a skills-based board, we are particularly interested to hear from members who have experience...

Suicide Prevention Position Paper

BEING presents position paper ahead of suicide prevention roundtable Tomorrow, BEING will participate in a roundtable consultation with a range of stakeholders to help inform the NSW Government’s intention to develop a whole of government suicide prevention strategy....

Social Justice Report 2023

Today, we released a landmark report covering the findings from a new survey capturing the experience of mental health consumers in NSW during 2023 and how the experience of living with a psychosocial disability as impacted on people’s human rights. Entitled the...