National Mental Health Consumer Alliance's National Human Rights Survey
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Prince & Virtual via OnAIR
| Tuesday, August 12, 2025 |
| 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Prince Room |
Overview
Priscilla Brice – NMHCA
Speaker
Priscilla Brice
CEO
NMHCA
National Mental Health Consumer Alliance's national human rights survey
Presentation Overview
Three Key Learnings:
1. The national mental health lived experience peak body’s advocacy priorities for policy and service reform, and how folks can get involved in its advocacy work.
2. Importance of language in mental health, with examples.
3. Outcomes of the only national Human Rights survey for people with lived experience of mental health challenges and what this means for you.
Funded from July 2024, the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance is the new national peak body for people with lived experience of mental health challenges. As mental health challenges fit within the neurodivergent paradigm, the NMHCA is also YOUR national peak body.
Priscilla Brice, CEO of the NMHCA, will provide an introduction about the NMHCA and how you can become involved. Priscilla will outline what the NMHCA has advocated for to date to inform effective national policies and support systems, as well as NMHCA’s advocacy priorities for the next twelve months.
Priscilla will discuss how the language NMHCA uses provokes the medical idea that mental health challenges are something that needs to be ‘fixed’. They will also discuss how the NMHCA is advocating for a system where people can choose the type of supports and services they need.
Priscilla will also present the outcomes of the first ever national Human Rights survey for people living with mental health challenges, which was conducted by the NMHCA in late 2024. 61% of respondents identified as having experience of neurodiversity, a person living with physical, developmental or intellectual disability and/or chronic illness.
1. The national mental health lived experience peak body’s advocacy priorities for policy and service reform, and how folks can get involved in its advocacy work.
2. Importance of language in mental health, with examples.
3. Outcomes of the only national Human Rights survey for people with lived experience of mental health challenges and what this means for you.
Funded from July 2024, the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance is the new national peak body for people with lived experience of mental health challenges. As mental health challenges fit within the neurodivergent paradigm, the NMHCA is also YOUR national peak body.
Priscilla Brice, CEO of the NMHCA, will provide an introduction about the NMHCA and how you can become involved. Priscilla will outline what the NMHCA has advocated for to date to inform effective national policies and support systems, as well as NMHCA’s advocacy priorities for the next twelve months.
Priscilla will discuss how the language NMHCA uses provokes the medical idea that mental health challenges are something that needs to be ‘fixed’. They will also discuss how the NMHCA is advocating for a system where people can choose the type of supports and services they need.
Priscilla will also present the outcomes of the first ever national Human Rights survey for people living with mental health challenges, which was conducted by the NMHCA in late 2024. 61% of respondents identified as having experience of neurodiversity, a person living with physical, developmental or intellectual disability and/or chronic illness.
Biography
Priscilla Brice (she/they) is an autistic non-binary person with lived experience of mental health challenges.
As the CEO of the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance, they are a professional advocate for and with mental health consumers, and passionate about social justice and upholding human rights. Priscilla is also a board Director of People With Disability Australia, and is the Founder and former Managing Director of anti-racism organisation All Together Now.
Priscilla is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), has an MBA in Social Impact from the University of NSW (MBAx), and a Churchill Fellowship.
