Peel Mental Health Taskforce
The Peel Mental Health Taskforce brings a renewed focus on mental health service delivery to consumers living in the local government areas of Mandurah, Murray and Waroona.
The taskforce is committed to removing access barriers to mental health services and improving the patient journey of mental health consumers living in the Peel region.
Established in mid-2021, the taskforce is focused is delivering strategies and projects that reduce mental health service duplication, increase collaboration and improve patient journeys.
Initial focus areas are services for the youth population aged 12 to 25 years, and early psychosis, personality disorders, and anxiety and mood disorders.
Read an update on the taskforce's progress.
Membership
The taskforce has over 90 representatives from more than 40 organisations, including:
- South Metropolitan Health Service
- Mental Health Commission
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- WA Primary Health Alliance
- WA Police
- Department of Education
- Department of Communities
- Peel Development Commission
- Peel Health Campus
- mental health service providers
- consumers and carers with lived experience.
The taskforce has the authority to take action and bring together resources to achieve results and is informed by three sub-groups:
- Service provider stakeholder engagement
- Aboriginal consultation
- Consumer and carer.
Read our newsletters
Stay up to date with the taskforce's activities via our newsletters.
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To join the mailing list, please send an email and include:
- your full name
- your job title and organisation (if applicable)
- whether you are a consumer or carer (if applicable).