Public Response

In recent weeks, VMHPAA has lodged formal concerns with federal decision-makers, while also petitioning State Premiers, Health Ministers, and Senators to draw urgent attention to the following risks...

The Vocational Mental Health Practitioners Association of Australia (VMHPAA) acknowledges recent correspondence from the Tasmanian Department for Education, Children and Young People regarding the Draft National Standards for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

The Productivity Commission’s recent review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement confirms what many of us working in the community already know all too well: the agreement, while well-intentioned, has failed to deliver real outcomes for the people it was meant to support.

At the Vocational Mental Health Practitioners Association of Australia (VMHPAA), we stand in full support of the urgent call for truth-telling, reform, and renewed commitment to equity across the entire continuum of mental health care.

A growing wave of concern is building across Australia's mental health sector as thousands of vocationally trained counsellors face the risk of exclusion under the draft National Standards for Counsellors, recently released by the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHA).

The Vocational Mental Health Practitioners Association of Australia (VMHPAA) has submitted a formal response to the Department of Health and Aged Care regarding the Draft National Standards for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

The Vocational Mental Health Practitioners Association Australia (VMHPAA) acknowledges the concerns raised by recent scrutiny of Victoria’s mental health reform progress, following revelations that despite the collection of over $1.1 billion through the Mental Health and Wellbeing Payroll Levy, the availability of acute mental health beds remains grossly inadequate.