The Big Issues: Scaling Mental Health Interventions to Meet Community Needs.

There is a global mental health crisis that is not being met by current treatments or available services. An obvious solution is to ‘scale up’ psychosocial mental health interventions. However, there are a vast array of possible methods to do so, each with their own benefits and risks.

In this Big Issues event, we explore public health messaging, community partnerships, digitalisation, transdiagnostic approaches, and workforce innovations to scaling interventions. Our speakers include experts with lived experience of mental health challenges, researchers, mental health practitioners, funders, and service providers.

The Expert Speakers

- Amanda Aiyana | Lived Experience Educator | Curtin University
- Rachel Radcliffe | Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program Manager | Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA)
- Christina Pollard | Director of Mentally Healthy WA | Professor of Public Health Priorities.
- Grace Stanton | Strategic Partnerships and Health Promotion Programmes| Mental Health and Sport | Healthway
- Sue-Ellen Morphett | Public Health Leader| Strategic Planning and Implementation | Healthway
- Professor Nick Titov | Professor of Psychology | Founder of Mindspot Clinic
- Professor Bronwyn Myers | Director of the Curtin enAble Institute 
- Dr Samir Heble | Area Director of Clinical Psychiatry | WA Country Health Service