The CHN Board established the Community Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations to the Board to ensure that strategies and initiatives are consumer focused, cost effective, locally relevant and aligned to improving local health care experiences and expectations.
Members as at 30 June 2020
Name | Position/Organisation |
Ms Kate Moore (Chair) | Consumer Representative, Health Care Consumers’ Association (HCCA) |
Ms Jane Grace | Consumer Representative, Mental Health Consumer Network (MHCN) |
Ms Jenny Mobbs | Executive Director, Council on the Ageing (COTA) |
Ms Marcia Williams | Executive Director, Women’s Centre for Health Matters (WCHM) |
Ms Carol Archard | Manager of Policy and Advocacy, Carers ACT |
Mr Samson Wong AM | Multicultural Representative |
Ms Darlene Cox | Board Member, Capital Health Network; Executive Officer, Health Care Consumers’ Assocation of the ACT |
Ms Tracey Hall | Director Client Services, Marymead |
Mr Michael Bleasdale | Chief Executive Officer, ACT Disability, Aged and Carer Advocacy Service (ADACAS) |
Ms Kirsten Cross | Executive Officer, ACT Playgroups |
Dr Emma Campbell | Chief Executive Officer, ACT Council of Social Service Inc (ACTCOSS) |
Ms Katrina Faulder | Indigenous Representative |
Mr Wayne Applebee | Indigenous Representative |
Ms Susan Helyar | (resigned 29 Oct. 2019) former ACT Council of Social Service CEO |
CHN Annual Report 2019-20 - Contents (click to expand)
- From the Chair and CEO
- COVID-19 response
- Priority areas
- Workforce
- Care across the continuum
- Vulnerable groups
- Mental health
- The Regional Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan
- Suicide prevention: LifeSpan
- Mental health support: Next Step
- Support following a suicide attempt: The Way Back Support Service
- Borderline Personality Disorder: Dialectical Behavioural Therapy for Emerging Adults
- Psychosocial support for people with mental illness
- Mental health services for young people: headspace
- Aged Care
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Digital health
- Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Chronic disease management
- Financial Statements