Australians for Mental Health

Australians for Mental Health is an advocacy organisation focused on mental health reform. Founded by Pat McGorry AO (Australian of the Year, psychiatrist and life-long mental health reformer), our job is to build grassroots support for mental health reforms that mean you and your loved ones get better care and get it when you need it. Our vision is that all Australians have someone to turn to and somewhere to go when they are experiencing mental illness. One in five Australians will experience mental illness in their lifetime. We now have several roadmaps and blueprints with recommendations for how to fix this problem. But what we dont have is the political urgency to do something about it. There are two key systematic problems with our mental health system: The #MissingMiddle people whose needs arent met by current mental health services, and #FixTheWaitlist unlike most other healthcare, there is no formal waitlist for people seeking mental healthcare. As a result...