Western Australian Association for Mental Health

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Policy Briefs

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Documents:
Access this URL (/images/stories/policy/WAAMH_Policy_brief-_Three_Strikes_Policy.pdf)Public Housing and the ‘three strikes policy’[ ]
Access this URL (/images/stories/attachments/category/157/NDIS_Brief.pdf)Proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme[Discussion of the proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme and its implications for Mental Health Consumers.]
Access this URL (/images/stories/attachments/category/157/ThreeStrikes.pdf)Public Housing and the ‘three strikes policy’[The recently-introducted Disruptive Behaviour Management Strategy is having unintended, discriminatory consequences for people living with a mental illness and their families, with individuals being evicted for behaviour that arises from their illness.]
Access this URL (/images/stories/attachments/category/157/mandatory_sentencing_and_mental_illness.pdf)Mandatory Sentencing and Mental Illness[A discussion of the unintended consequences of Western Australia's Mandatory Sentencing laws for people living with a mental illness and their families.]
WAAMH Policy Briefs