Families and Mental Health Network

An intersectoral group promoting the wellbeing of families with dependent children where parents have a mental illness.

Purpose of group

To lobby for improved service structure and service delivery for parents with mental illness and their children through:

• exchanging information about program, policy and service developments
• providing collegiate/peer support and professional development bringing into focus, raising consciousness and advocating for the rights of families where one or both parents have a mental illness (children, adult children, parents) fostering intersectoral linkages encouraging and facilitating invlovement of and consultation with family members and consumers