The Murrumbidgee Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Alliance is a group of passionate local service providers, consumer, carers and people with lived experience.

We have a strategic and region wide approach, raising awareness of services available, identifying gaps and working together to ensure consumers and carers get the support they need.

Alliance members benefit from connecting with others, sharing resources and helping make our community's mental health and alcohol and other drug support system stronger to improve services.

We are proud of our multiagency, consumer focused approach that is truly unique across Australia.

Our Vision is to bridge gaps in service provision through shared projects and outcomes for strategic integration of service delivery.

Our key principles include:

  • Be consumer/client focused, not organisation focused. This means demonstrating respect for consumer/client’s values, preferences and expressed needs, focusing on the coordination and integration of care.

  • Develop innovative models and ways of working together across human services that reflects a shared purpose and productive alliance.

  • Recognise the value that the wider community and social sectors contribute to addressing the needs of mental health and drug and alcohol consumers/clients.

  • Improve communication and for services to work together in a collaborative, respectful and transparent manner while recognising the values, skills and expertise each member and organisation brings to the Alliance.

  • Acknowledge the different cultural and behavioural challenges that some consumers experience, especially those that are most marginalised, and recognise these in strategic directions and initiatives.

Why we are here

Our purpose is to provide a forum through which key stakeholders can develop a strategic approach to meeting the needs of the Murrumbidgee population.

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