Grow Your Own Non-Clinical Community Mental Health Workforce — Mt Isa Working Session

Mount Isa's community mental health and wellbeing sector is under sustained pressure. Community services organisations across Queensland report the same pattern: rising demand and thinning capacity to meet it. In the 2025 QCOSS State of the Sector survey, 81% of services reported increased demand for what they provide over the previous six months, while 48% reported difficulty finding and keeping appropriately skilled and qualified staff. In the Queensland Outback region, which includes Mount Isa, searches for mental health services rose 18% over the past year, now the fourth most common category of service search in the region.

Queensland Alliance for Mental Health is working with the region to develop the Grow Your Own Non-Clinical Community Mental Health Workforce Plan (Mt Isa region) , a locally designed blueprint to create sustainable pathways into non-clinical mental health roles for First Nations peoples, multicultural communities, people with lived and living experience, and local community members.

This is not a consultation. It is a working session to set priorities for action.

Morning Session - 9:30am -12:00pm

All registered attendees join the morning working session to map workforce gaps, identify what's already working, and set the priorities that will shape the Plan - with a particular focus on assessing the feasibility of a Multicultural Peer Workforce GYO approach for the region

Morning tea provided | Networking lunch follows (12.00 to 1.00pm)

Contact the host of Mt Isa Grow Your Own Non-Clinical Community Mental Health Workforce Plan

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