The Australian Consumers & Carers Mental Health Forum (The Forum) is a national mental health forum that brings together a combined independent voice of consumers and carers to develop shared positions on mental health, suicide prevention, psychosocial disability reform to strengthen links to disability rights and policy, and support collaboration across a diversity of lived experience communities.
The Forum strives to engage with and bring the perspectives of people whose voices are not currently reflected through formal mechanisms. In doing so, we bring more than 20 years of demonstrated expertise that strengthens the breadth, diversity, legitimacy, and broaden lived experience representation. The Forum complements and adds to the work of the national mental health consumer and carer peaks, other lived experience peaks and organisations by providing a combined consumer and carer platform and a cross-system policy development space, including engagement across disability and mental health policy processes and with relevant Australian Government departments and agencies.
AFDO hosts and supports the Forum by providing the administrative and organisational support needed for it to operate. This includes managing funding, coordination and meeting support so Forum members can focus on representing their communities.
Learn more by visiting the ACCMHF webpage.
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