Some of our functions include:
- Promote the improvement, awareness and understanding of mental health and wellbeing across government, business and the wider community;
- Elevate lived experience leadership, and support the effective participation of people with lived experience in decision-making processes;
- Design and deliver initiatives that create awareness of people with lived experience and their unique experiences, including promoting the role of families, carers and supporters of persons living with mental illness or psychological distress;
- Develop and support the leadership capabilities of people with lived experience of mental illness or psychological distress;
- Promote the role, value and inclusion of families, carers and supporters of persons living with mental illness or psychological distress in the mental health and wellbeing system;
- Handle complaints about Victorian publicly funded mental health and wellbeing services, which include mental health and wellbeing services run and delivered by a public hospital in Victoria;
- Lead and support initiatives to prevent and address stigma related to mental illness;
- Monitor and report on the performance, quality and safety of the mental health and wellbeing system;
- Report on the use of restrictive interventions in mental health and wellbeing services;
- Monitor and report on the progress to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the Victorian community;
- Monitor and report on the progress of implementing the recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system;
- Promote effective complaint handling by mental health and wellbeing service providers;
- Make recommendations to the Premier, Minister and heads of public service bodies;
- to collect, review, report and publish data and information about complaints made to mental health and wellbeing service providers and the Commission;
- Promote and support compliance with the Act and report significant breaches of the Act to the Health Secretary.
Click on the link for our full list of functions under the Act.
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