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        4. Queensland trauma strategy
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      1. Human rights
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        5. Human Rights Act 2019
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        1. Chief Psychiatrist Annual Report
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        1. Multicultural mental health
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        5. First Nations Housing and Homelessness Action Plan
        6. Voluntary assisted dying
      6. Broader system reform
        1. Supportive housing
        2. Physical health
        3. Police interactions
        4. Social housing reform
        5. Strengthening mental health NGOs
  • Awareness & promotion
      1. Mental health & wellbeing
        1. Regional wellbeing hubs
        2. Capacity building
        3. Rural community wellbeing
        4. Queensland Mental Health Week
        5. QMHW Grants
        6. Small business mental health
      2. Prevention
        1. Beyondblue awareness
      3. Early intervention
        1. ABC Pilot
        2. Ed-Linq program
        3. Expanding the Tracking Cube across sectors
        4. Parent & infant mental health
        5. Youth mental health
      4. Suicide prevention
        1. Improving suicide surveillance
        2. Queensland Suicide Data
        3. Place-based suicide prevention trial
        4. Suicide Prevention Research Scheme
        5. Multicultural resources
        6. CALD Suicide Prevention Project
        7. Preventing farmer suicide
        8. Sisters Connecting – Suicide Prevention Program
        9. Understanding male suicide
        10. The Men's Table initiative
      5. First Nations' wellbeing
        1. First Nations Suicide Prevention Response Pilot
        2. Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program outcomes
        3. National empowerment project
        4. Gayaa Dhuwi
        5. Townsville services accessibility
      6. Social & economic opportunity
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        2. Willing to work inquiry
  • Engage & enable
      1. Lived experience-led reform
        1. Governance, leadership and partnering
        2. Our Commitment to partnering
        3. Stretch2Engage
          • Engaging lived-living experience tenants
        4. Lived experience workforce framework
        5. National Consumer & Carer Forum
        6. Embedding LLE workforces
        7. Mental health peer scholarships
      2. Sector engagement
        1. Leading Reform Summit 2024
        2. Leading Reform Summit 2023
        3. Leading Reform Summit 2022
        4. Leading Reform Summit 2019
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        1. Mental Health Commissions
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        3. Productivity Commission Inquiry
        4. National Drug Strategy
        5. Fifth National Mental Health Plan
      5. Consultations
        1. Trauma strategy consultations
        2. Workforce Forum Consultation Report
      6. Lifetime Achievement Awards
        1. 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards
        2. 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards
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Publications by type: Discussion papers

  • Background paper: Human Rights Inquiry, April 2016
  • Consumer participation in the education and training of mental health nurses, November 2014
  • Discussion Paper A renewed plan for Queensland Feb 2017
  • Discussion Paper A renewed plan for Queensland Feb 2017
  • Discussion Paper Engaging people with a lived experience Renewed priorities Feb 2017
  • DISCUSSION PAPER Human Rights Inquiry
  • DISCUSSION PAPER Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Queensland FINAL
  • Discussion Paper Suicide Prevention Continuing the Conversation
  • Discussion Paper Towards a Qld Awareness Prevention and Early Intervention Action Plan
  • Discussion Paper Towards a Rural and Remote Mental Health and Wellbeing Action Plan
  • Discussion paper: Reducing alcohol and other drug impacts in Queensland, August 2015
  • Government policy commitments Opportunities to improve mental health and wellbeing
  • Issues paper rural and remote mental health better access for Queenslanders
  • Mental Heath Act Discussion Paper
  • Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Service Enhancement
  • Promoting Lived Experience Perspective Discussion paper
  • Service System and NDIS Discussion Paper, 15 September 2015
  • Siggins Miller Discussion Paper
  • Suicide Prevention in Queensland: Continuing the Conversation Discussion Paper

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    • Statewide strategic plan
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