Altering States Working for Wellbeing

About Us

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  Altering States is the biannual conference for Queensland Alliance for Mental Health. Queensland Alliance for Mental Health has a membership base of 260 community mental health organisations and is the peak body for the community mental health sector in Queensland

   Queensland Alliance for Mental Health envisages a community that values differences, promotes well-being and creates a sense of belonging.

  We aim to achieve this vision by influencing, connecting, strengthening, and collaborating with, our communities to improve mental health and well-being.

  Queensland Alliance For Mental Health is an independent charity which represents community organisations working in mental health.

  What do we do?

  • we support, promote and represent community organisations working in mental health in Queensland
  • we promote the human rights of people with mental illness
  • we influence governments to support people’s recovery in their own homes and communities
  • we advocate for services that promote mental health and wellbeing.

  What do we stand for?

  Queensland Alliance For Mental Health:

  • believes in recovery;
  • believes in human rights, social justice and universal access to health care;
  • believes that responses located as close to a person and their community as possible will best meet their needs; and
  • supports the contribution of people with experience of mental illness in forming policy and design of services.

   

  Our goals are:

  • social inclusion and community well-being;
  • a mental health system focused on peoples’ recovery in their own homes and communities; and
  • easy access to information and strategies that promote mental health.

  For more information go to www.qldalliance.org.au or view our corporate brochure here.

  The Theme “Working for Wellbeing”

  The Queensland Alliance for Mental Health 2012 conference, Altering States will focus on the inter relationship between the workplace and good mental health. The benefits of a positive working environment as an integral part of rehabilitation and recovery from a mental health episode, is well documented. Similarly the connection of mental health issues through a negative working environment is also a common and current concern for business. Less well developed are the opportunities for the business community to engage with providers of mental health support in the working and general population as a whole, to foster discussion, increase awareness and enable solutions which can provide better outcomes for all concerned, patient, employer and the community. This conference seeks to provide such an opportunity.