Our voice is making louder, those many voices and reports already raised with the Victorian government, advocating for the integration of service systems based on the principle of no wrong door. The Victorian government itself has been advocating for a no wrong door approach to all mental health services since 2007. But unlike the NSW government, it has yet to invest in the implementation of an integrated service systems framework that would make it a reality. A reality that would improve the accessibility, and therefore the effectiveness, of mental health services for every Victorian, including for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.  Whom face very significant barriers to disclosure and therefore access to, vital specialist services and supports.

Those voices advocating for no wrong door include (but aren't limited to) in order of recency:

• Australian National Mental Health Commission, The National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, October 2021.
• Sexual Assault Services Victoria submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission: Improving the Response of the Justice System to Sexual Offences, December 2020.
• Victorian survivors of childhood sexual abuse engaged by the Federal Government, Department of Social Services. National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Stakeholder Consultation Report  August 2020.
• Mental Health, Australian Productivity Commission Inquiry Report, 30 June 2020.
• Blue Knot Foundation, Beyond Blue, Orygen, Joint submission - Mind, Wellways, Sane Australia and Neami National, Anglicare, Relationships Australia, Reachout Australia, National LGTBI Health Alliance, Mental Health Commission NSW, Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners, headspace, Victorian Drug and Alcohol Drug Association, Victorian Council of Social Services, National Rural Health Alliance, Mental Health Carers Australia, and Community Mental Health Australia submissions to the Productivity Commission’s on Mental Health, February 2020
• Victorian Council of Social Service, VCOSS Submission to Issues Paper into the Social and Economic Benefits of Improving Mental Health, April 2019.
• Submissions from headspace, Victorian Drug & Alcohol Association, Youth Affairs Council Victoria, Tandem Inc. representing Victoria’s mental health carers, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria, Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative, VincentCare, the Victorian Government, Australian Association of Social Workers, and Jesuit Social Services to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, July 2019.
• The Final Report, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Recommendation 9.1, increasing the accessibility of specialist services through integration, collaboration, and case management,15 December 2017.
• Australian Psychological Society, submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, November 2015.
• The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc., submission to the Victorian Government’s 10 Year Mental Health
  Strategy, September 2015.

Resharing what you need to know regarding the tabling of our petition in Victorian parliament in June. You can also keep up to date about what's happening, via the event on our Facebook page, or emailing us on 3193survivorsfamilies@gmail.com 

Celebrate Our Petition Being Tabled In Victorian State Parliament

• We are aiming for 7- 9 June sitting week to table the paper.
• The Chamber needs to agree to table papers, and given the nature of our petition we expect this to happen (almost all pass).
• Once tabled it is on the public record. This means that any personal details of signatories will be on the public record and therefore publicly accessible forever.

If you don’t want your name in the public record

You can ask us to manually remove your name and details, by editing the petition details, via the following email, by Monday 30th May at the latest.

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OR

You can remove your signature from the petition, as per the following instructions, by Monday 30th May at the latest.

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