by Julian Clarkson | May 8, 2024 | News, Uncategorised
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...
by Julian Clarkson | Apr 23, 2024 | Uncategorised
We will soon be introducing an exciting new service that will strengthen the NSW mental health consumer community.To ensure you get access to the areas of interest to you, please complete and submit this quick poll.By providing these details we will be better able to...
by Julian Clarkson | Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorised
BEING Mental Health Consumers, in conjunction with Mental Health Carers NSW, will be yarning with First Nations consumers and carers between 4-5pm on Wednesday June 12th to explore the specific mental healthcare issues and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
by Julian Clarkson | Nov 22, 2023 | Uncategorised
In the five years to June 30th 2023, 54 people with mental health issues died as a result of the police being dispatched as first responders to a mental health incident. Too often the intervention of uniformed, armed police officers acts to escalate rather than...
by Julian Clarkson | Nov 15, 2023 | Uncategorised
“This report is another reminder, as if we needed it, that mental health needs to be made the priority focus of our healthcare system right now, a system which is currently letting mental health consumers down,” Priscilla Brice, CEO of BEING – Mental Health Consumers...
by Julian Clarkson | Sep 6, 2023 | News, Uncategorised
Wednesday September 6th 2023 Today, BEING – Mental Health Consumers makes its submission to the NSW parliamentary inquiry into Equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in New South Wales. The inquiry, chaired...
