Key messages
- Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy 2021-2024 responds to key recommendations of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
- The Strategy prioritises steps to stabilise the system and lay the foundations for the decade of reform ahead.
- The Strategy will be reviewed and updated every two years.
- Our workforce, our future sets out the skills, knowledge and ways of working that the workforce will require in the new integrated and responsive mental health and wellbeing system.
The mental health and wellbeing workforce is the backbone of our system and is critical to realising the Royal Commission’s vision for reform.
Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy 2021-2024 is an important step towards building the diverse, multidisciplinary workforce we need to provide treatment, care and support for Victorians with mental illness or psychological distress.
We have already made significant progress on many of the workforce initiatives recommended by the Royal Commission. The Strategy prioritises steps to stabilise the system and lay the foundations for the decade of reform ahead.
We will continue to collaborate with community and sector partners to implement the Workforce Strategy, which will be reviewed and updated every two years.
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