Why is this important?
Communities play a central role in supporting and protecting mental health and wellbeing by fostering social inclusion and connectedness, and enabling access to resources and services.
This occurs through community engagement, participation and cohesion, as well as by addressing specific factors within communities that can facilitate or diminish mental health and wellbeing.
Strengthening approaches to mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention provides a key opportunity to improve outcomes across all life domains.
What we want to achieve
Promotion, prevention and early intervention alongside treatment and support are core pillars of a contemporary mental health and wellbeing system.
It involves targeted action to enhance or maintain individual mental health and wellbeing, prevent mental ill-health, and promote the social, economic and environmental conditions of daily life.
It also includes a focus on identifying concerns and providing support as early as possible, whether in life course, illness or distress.
Protecting the mental health and wellbeing of Queenslanders requires addressing risk and protective factors, as well as supporting groups and communities who experience higher barriers to good health.
This requires a systemic approach to further shift the balance of investment and prioritisation towards the community, with delivery of initiatives occurring in a planned, coordinated and impactful way.
Directions, priorities and actions
Strengthen mental health and wellbeing
Getting in early
Advance First Nations health equity