Mental health and wellbeing matter to everyone.

The Mental Health Commission of NSW is leading the development of the Strategy for Mental Health and Wellbeing in NSW. It will include a focus on the mental health service system as well as the broader goal of better mental health and wellbeing for all in the community. This will include a broad, coordinated effort across all areas of government to prevent suicide.

We want to engage with and learn from anyone with interest in and insights about mental health and wellbeing in NSW.

This consultation is not intended to ask about a person's own mental health and wellbeing. It is asking for opinions about the mental health service system and about community mental health and wellbeing.

There are two ways to participate:

The 5 minute online survey is best for individuals, but anyone can complete it. The survey asks your opinion about mental health services and mental health and community wellbeing. It can be done anonymously.

Written submissions are also invited. This is the best option for organisations but it is open to anyone.

A Consultation Paper provides some background information and poses consultation questions for written submissions. An easy to read version is also available.

Targeted consultations will take place in the coming months, including community visits and virtual roundtables with stakeholders and government agencies.

To find out more, visit the Commission’s website.

Privacy collection notice for Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Have your say consultations are run by the NSW Department of Customer Service (McKell Building, 2-4 Rawson Place, Haymarket NSW 2000).

We are interested in hearing from anyone with interest in and insights about mental health and wellbeing in NSW, and will use the information we collect from you to help develop the programs and services that NSW Government provides.

We may collect basic personal information like your name and contact details, if you choose to provide them. You may provide some personal information in response to questions that we ask you. For example, we may ask you about your experiences or opinions about a particular topic.

Having your say is voluntary and you are not legally required to provide any personal information to us.

If you do provide personal information to us, you have a right to access it, and can ask us to update or correct your information. For more information about how you can access or amend your personal information, please contact us by calling 13 77 88 or by emailing privacy@service.nsw.gov.au

We may provide your personal information to other areas of the Department of Customer Service (for example the Data Analytics Centre and Customer Insights) so that we can conduct analysis across all consultations and refine our engagement methodology. The personal information will be stored on the DAC’s secure platform, which is hosted in a secure commercial cloud data centre in Australia.

Where we conduct a consultation with or on behalf of a partner agency, we would usually share the information that we collect with that agency. In this instance, we are running this consultation with:

• NSW Health (Mental Health Commission)

For privacy information about your use of the NSW Government website generally, please see the NSW Government’s website privacy statement.

You can contact our Privacy Coordinator by calling 13 77 88 or by emailing privacy@service.nsw.gov.au.