Terms of reference
Interim report
Conduct of the inquiry
   Australia/New Zealand Parliamentary Committee Exchange
Structure of the report
Acknowledgments

The COAG National Action Plan on Mental Health
   Other developments
The COAG Plan and the National Mental Health Strategy
   State and Territory variation
Future policy direction
   The New Zealand experience
   Mental health commissions
   A recovery focus in mental health policy
Concluding comment

Government forums for coordination
   COAG Mental Health Groups
   National Advisory Council on Mental Health
   Other government forums coordinating mental health policy
Coordination across areas of responsibility
   The COAG Plan and existing initiatives
   Legislative coordination and compulsory treatment orders
Recognising different service structures
Care coordination
   Funding
   Implementation across the jurisdictions
Concluding comment

Community sector funding
   Effect of the new funding
Competitive tendering
   Valuing local knowledge
   Collaborative tendering
   Onerous application process
   Meeting the needs of specific groups
   Sustainability of services
Concluding comments

The Personal Helpers and Mentors program
   Support for the program
   Concerns about the program
Who is the program for and is it reaching them?
   People who are excluded
Geographic coverage
PHaMs providers
   PHaMs staff
   Peer support workers
   Qualifications and training
Capacity
Evaluation

The initiative
Support for the initiative
Use of Better Access services
   Diagnosis and treatments
   Group therapies
Is Better Access providing 'new' services?
Barriers to access
   Costs
   Geography and workforce distribution
   Awareness
Concerns about the initiative
   Distribution of resources across the states and territories
   Public sector capacity
   Promoting team work?
   GP plans and referrals
   GP training
   Specific groups
Provider eligibility
   NGO providers
   Should counsellors be included among the eligible allied health professionals?
Evaluating the initiative

Support for the initiative
Budget cut
   Concerns about the operation of the initiative

Housing and supported accommodation
   Extent of the shortage
   Types of accommodation needed
   Funded initiatives
   Further commitments required
Workforce shortages
   Funded initiatives
   Tertiary training
   Expanding the vocational workforce
Consumer involvement
   Shortfalls in consumer involvement
   Valuing and supporting consumer involvement
   Consumer run services
Employment
   Welfare to work
Community awareness
   Public awareness and destigmatisation
Comorbidity services
   Funded initiatives
   Remaining gaps
   Criticisms of the COAG Plan approach
Support for living in the community
   Shortfalls and gaps
   Beyond 'health' care
   'Community' based care?
In-patient services
   The Royal Women's Hospital
Standards and rights
Research
Evaluation
   COAG progress reports
   Evaluating outcomes
Concluding comments

Indigenous Australians
Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
Youth
   headspace
   Remaining shortfalls
Aged
Survivors of child sexual abuse and borderline personality disorder
   Borderline Personality Disorder
Prisoners and others in the criminal justice system
   The role of police
Rural and Remote
   Workforce shortages
   E-technology
   COAG Plan Rural and Remote initiative
Carers
   Respite
Concluding comments