Resources

New

• Report of the Brisbane Workshop on the Implementation of the Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration and the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention’s Indigenous Governance Framework, 14 Nov 2018 (PDF 3.3MB)
• Health in Culture - Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration Implementation Guide 
  A comprehensive guide for governments and organisations across the mental health system to implementing the Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration as per Article 12.3 of the Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan.
• Health in Culture - Policy Concordance 
  The Policy Concordance cross references documents as diverse as the Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan, the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Mental Health Social and Emotional Wellbeing, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan and the Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration, among many others. It sets out clearly what is required of Australian governments, PHNs and the mental health system overall to improve the social and emotional wellbeing and mental health of, and prevent suicide among, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Media

• MEDIA RELEASE: More detail and funding needed - Indigenous leaders respond to 2019 federal budget 3 April 2019
• MEDIA RELEASE: Cutting through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health policy maze 15 March 2018
• MEDIA RELEASE: NATSILMH call for Indigenous mental health framework action to mark the tenth anniversary of the Apology 13 February 2018
• MEDIA RELEASE: NATSILMH mark the launch of the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Mental Health Social and Emotional Wellbeing, 13 October 2017
• MEDIA RELEASE: On the February 2017 Cairns Exchange of the IIMHL (Queensland Mental Health Commission)
• MEDIA RELEASE: On the Australian Government response to the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services: ‘Promising Start, But Meet With Us to Discuss the Detail’, Say Indigenous Leaders, 3 December 2015
• MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous Leadership Needed to Address Mental Health Crisis August 2015
• MEDIA RELEASE: NATSILMH Mark Close the Gap Day
• World Suicide Prevention Day 2014
• Third Conversation Roundtable on Suicide Prevention, June 2014

Communiqués

• June 2014
• October 2014
• February 2015
• June 2015
• October 2015
• July 2016
• December 2016
• October 2017

Papers

• Future Directions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing
• What works in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
• NATSILMH member Professor Tom Calma AO's keynote speech to the International Initiative on Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) Sydney Exchange, 2 March 2017 Speech (253 KB) Presentation (3.4 MB)

Policy

• National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Mental Health Social and Emotional Wellbeing
• Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan and Implementation Plan
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy
• National Mental Health Commission Review - Specific Challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• NATSILMH comments on the draft-for-consultation Fifth National Mental Health Plan, November 2016

Submissions

• Submission on the Social and Cultural Determinants and Indigenous Mental Health Problems and Suicide, May 2017
• Submission on the National Mental Health Commission’s Review of Mental Health Services and Programmes, 17 April 2014
• Submission to the National Children's Commissioner, 12 June 2014
• Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Health, 6 February 2015
• Submission on the National Framework for Health Services for Aboriginal Children and Families, 26 February 2015

Advocacy

• Principles to Guide the Negotiation of Commonwealth-State Trilateral Partnership Agreements on Indigenous Health 
• Six Steps to Closing the Mental Health Gap

International Initiative on Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) Exchange, Cairns Indigenous Match

IIMHL is a unique international collaboration that focuses on improving mental health and addiction services through international innovation sharing, networking and problem solving across countries and agencies. The 2017 IIMHL Exchange (or conference) was held from 27 February to 3 March 2017 in Sydney. 

A part of the 2017 IIMHL Exchange was the Cairns Indigenous Match (or workshop) - Healing and Empowerment: Indigenous Leadership in Suicide Prevention. This match was co-hosted by NATSILMH, the Queensland Mental Health Commission and Queensland Department of Health and attended by Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Indigenous leaders and experts in mental health and suicide prevention. 

For more information download:

• A report on the Match (723 KB) 
• A video report on the Match (18:30 mins) (short version 4:15 mins)
• Presenter profiles (141 KB)
• Ms Donna Blair, Healing a Maori World View presentation (1.34 MB)
• Dr Mark Wenitong, Apunipima Health, on mental health and social and emotional wellbeing in the Cairns area presentation (1.2 MB)
• Ms Denise Andrews - Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing Action Plan presentation (612 KB)
• Professor Pat Dudgeon on the Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration presentation (494 KB)
• Ms Suzanna Andrews on the Gurriny Yealamucka Aboriginal Health Service presentation (2.3 MB)

Constitution

Work Plan

Sydney Declaration

Wharerata Declaration