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Have your Human Rights been upheld in 2024

This national survey looks at how well mental health consumers met their human rights in 2024. We want to hear about how human rights-based...

Are you thinking about joining our Committee of Management? Your membership is due!

The Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) has advocated for the human rights and voice of people with lived experience since 1982. Since then,...

VMIAC invites you to attend a special General Meeting (SGM) on 28 November.

The reason for calling this SGM is for members to consider several changes to the VMIAC Rules. The VMIAC Committee of Management considers these...

VMIAC Statement on Israel-Palestine Conflict

VMIAC is part of a mental health consumer and survivor movement grounded in human rights and social justice. We hope for a community where...

CLIG participant Jess shares her experience

Peer support worker, consumer consultant, and VMIAC member Jess Ferguson-McLellan is one of 28 students in VMIAC’s groundbreaking pilot training program, Consumer Leading in...

VMIAC’s reaction to the Federal Government’s response to the Disability Royal Commission

On 30 July 2024, the Federal Government published its response to the Disability Royal Commission. The Federal Government responded to the 172 recommendations that...

VMIAC deeply disappointed NDIS reforms have passed

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No.1) Bill 2024 passed Parliament on 22 August 2024. This means that...

Alt2Su: When Conversations Turn to Suicide training updates

VMIAC held the final round of Alt2Su: When Conversations Turn to Suicide training.

Is Hay’s Disability Pride Story

Finding Disability Pride in an ableist and sanist society is revolutionary and lifechanging.

VMIAC Victorian Pre-budget Submissions 2024-2025

VMIAC Victorian Pre-budget Submissions 2024 - 2025.

NDIS Review – Ambiguities and Our Concerns

Letter to Minister Shorten

VMIAC UnConference 2023 Wrap Up

Thank you to everyone who contributed to a celebration of lived experience at the VMIAC UnConference 2023!

VMIAC is the peak Victorian organisation for people with a lived experience of mental health or emotional challenges across all of Victoria, supporting consumers in all metro, rural and regional communities. We’re run by consumers, for consumers.

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VMIAC is the peak Victorian organisation for people with a lived experience of mental health or emotional challenges across all of Victoria, supporting consumers in all metro, rural and regional communities. We’re run by consumers, for consumers.

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