The Queensland Alliance

Is a Non Government Organisation (NGO), which has grown to over 200 members in the past decade. The Queensland Alliance represents the Mental Health Community Sector who meet the needs of people who experience mental illness disability, including consumer groups, family and carer groups and non-government community-based service providers across Queensland. It strives to promote, strengthen and develop the growth of non-government, community-based, recovery-oriented responses to the needs of people who experience mental illness in Queensland.

Our Beliefs and Values

The Queensland Alliance –

• believes in human rights, social justice and universal access to health care
• believes in the consumer inspired recovery orientation
• believes that health is not only the absence of disease, but a state of physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual wellbeing
• believes responses that are located as close as possible to a person and their community as possible will best meet their needs
• promotes the Mental Health Community Service Sector because it is comprised of organisations that are community driven and responsive to peoples’ needs
• supports the participation and contribution of people with the lived experience of mental illness in the formulation of policy and design of the service system
• believes Mental Health Community Sector organisations can provide government with an alternative to public sector services as well as complementing some needed specialised public services
• recognises our communities are diverse and that the Community Sector reflects this diversity through many and varied community organisations.