VMIAC AWARDs 2021
In 2016 VMIAC, as the peak body for consumers in Victoria sponsored the inaugural Consumer Awards. These awards recognised the significant contribution that consumer workers have made to Victoria over the previous 20 years. We hosted this award again in 2018 to massive success. This year, in 2021, VMIAC once again, will sponsor an opportunity
Experiences of police apprehension for psychosocial disability: a co-designed investigation
Have you been taken to a mental health service by police? We want to hear about your experience. Funded by the National Disability Research Partnership, a team from RMIT University, and partnering with VMIAC (Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council), is speaking to people about their experiences. The research team includes consumer academics. If you are over 18 years old, have been
CEO Update
We may all be working from home, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some great things in store. Check out our latest CEO Update with Craig, to find out more about The VMIAC Awards, the next AGM, and how we are adjusting to lockdown.
VMIAC AWARDS AND AGM
We are really excited to announce the dates for our AGM and the long-awaited return of the VMIAC Awards!Details are to be determined soon, so watch this space. But now is a great time to start thinking about nominees. Awards will be given for those who have strived for human rights, diversity, consumer workers, and
Identity and Belonging: Cultural Relevance in Mental Health Services
“I began to realise that my inability to connect with mental health services was not for a lack of trying or because I am picky or difficult, but rather because the health systems in place are not designed to fill the needs of people like me.” Read our latest blog by VMIAC’s Lauren to see
NDIS ‘too complex’ for people from diverse backgrounds, agencies warn
“People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds need help not only to access the system but to navigate it.” The NDIS is a highly inaccessible system, especially for those from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds. This great article by the ABC highlights some of these issues. Click here to read
NDIS Consultation Papers
VMIAC’s NDIS Critical Reference Group has been busy with a number of consultations papers, and we would like to hear from you. Looking at Home and Living, as well as Support for Decision Making, we want to ensure a diverse array of consumer voices are heard as part of our submissions. Read below to find
National Mutual Recognition Project
To our members Recently the Department of Health, Mental Health Division was contacted VMIAC about the ‘National Mutual Recognition Project’ and asked for our involvement. This project is intended to ‘harmonise’ Australian mental health legislation. Currently, when you travel to a different state, involuntary treatment orders are not recognised by the state that you travel
Update with VMIAC CEO Craig Wallace | 06.08.2021
Click here to watch our first VMIAC CEO update with Craig Wallace. This week Craig goes over some of the news coming out of VMIAC.