News
24 January 2011
Welcome
Our Mission: To enable, support and connect mental health consumers in their recovery and advocate for their voices to be included across all levels of the mental health system
Our Vision: We CAN - We CARE - The Future is In Our Hands
Our Vision: We CAN - We CARE - The Future is In Our Hands
CAN (Mental Health) Inc. is an independent, not for profit, consumer run organisation for people with a mental illness. (Formerly known as the Northern Beaches Mental Health Consumer Network from February 1994 - October 2005- We acknowledge our roots and the support provided by NSCC MHS to our network for 11.5 years to grow to be able to incorporate in our own right!)
CAN manages and runs Pitane Recovery Centre, the first and only consumer run recovery centre in metropolitan Sydney. As a grass roots organisation for mental health consumers, CAN's aims to:
Our overall purpose is to:
CAN (Mental Health) have a Board of Management can consist of up to 9 experienced consumers. The current board come from Sydney, Qld, South Australia and Western Australia.
CAN manages and runs Pitane Recovery Centre, the first and only consumer run recovery centre in metropolitan Sydney. As a grass roots organisation for mental health consumers, CAN's aims to:
- Promote and enhance mental health wellbeing and recovery journeys for people with a mental illness.
- Provide a range of recovery activities at Pitane Recovery Centre.
- Encourage, enable and support consumers independence to have a lifestyle of their choice, and
- Encourage and support consumers to put forward ideas, suggestions and concerns about the mental health service provision.
- Develop linkages with community organisations.
Our overall purpose is to:
- Initiate and advance the empowerment and independence of:
- Consumers' recovery journeys
- Consumers' viewpoints being provided
- Participation, including on the implementation and evaluation of MHS.
- Consumers' viewpoints explicity integrated and an integral component of mental health service development.
CAN (Mental Health) have a Board of Management can consist of up to 9 experienced consumers. The current board come from Sydney, Qld, South Australia and Western Australia.
