About QAMH
Leading a United Contemporary Voice for the
Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector
Our Vision
A Queensland where every individual and community thrives with mental wealth, supported by innovative systems and universal access to community-led mental health services
Our Priority
Our values are grounded in truth-telling, cultural safety, inclusion, and self-determination. We honour lived experience and cultural authority, stepping back when it is appropriate for others to lead.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to amplify and connect the community-led mental health sector to strengthen mental health for all Queenslanders
Our Values
Collective Benefit through Collaboration
We’re stronger when we work together.
Courage to Disrupt
We speak up where it matters. We work to shift systems, influence policy, and lead change for our sector.
Curiosity Fuels Innovation
We don’t just ask what’s possible. We try it. Our projects turn insight into impact.
Integrity with Impact
We lead with integrity, purpose, and a clear commitment to impact.
QAMH Commitments
we build knowledge and foster innovation within the
Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector.
Advocacy: Catalysts for Systemic Reform
We are brave, bold, and strategic in influencing reform.
Innovation: Future Ready to Drive Change
We drive transformational change by embracing design thinking principles, data, and new models of care and support.
Connection: Deliberate, Diverse, Dynamic
We create intentional inclusive connections to strengthen trust, amplify voices, and propel collective action.
Sustainability: Agile, Bold, Effective
We manage with strong financial stewardship and good governance to look after our people and strengthen communities.
Our Story
In the early 1990s a unified voice for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector gained momentum with more than 50 organisations and groups across Queensland forming an alliance.
Today the Queensland Alliance for Mental Health (QAMH) is the peak body for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector and people with experiences of psychosocial disability in Queensland.
Our role as the peak body for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector is to reform, promote and drive community mental health and wellbeing service delivery for all Queenslanders, through our influence and collaboration with our members and strategic partners.
QAMH represents more than 100 Queensland organisations and individual members involved in the quality delivery of community mental health and wellbeing services across the state.
We bring people and organisations together to drive change and ensure innovative and quality mental health services are delivered to people in our community.
In the early 1990s a unified voice for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector gained momentum with more than 50 organisations and groups across Queensland forming an alliance.
Today the Queensland Alliance for Mental Health (QAMH) is the peak body for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector and people with experiences of psychosocial disability in Queensland.
Our role as the peak body for the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Sector is to reform, promote and drive community mental health and wellbeing service delivery for all Queenslanders, through our influence and collaboration with our members and strategic partners.
QAMH represents more than 120 Queensland organisations and individual members involved in the quality delivery of community mental health and wellbeing services across the state.
We bring people and organisations together to drive change and ensure innovative and quality mental health services are delivered to people in our community.
Meet Our
Dedicated Board
of Directors
Our Board of Directors provides strategic oversight and guidance to ensure QAMH remains a strong, effective voice for Queensland’s community mental health sector. Comprised of both member-elected and skill-based directors, the Board brings together deep sector knowledge and diverse professional expertise to support sound governance and leadership.
Our History
Established
