Sector involvement


In order to ensure that the needs and views of young people on issues affecting their mental health and wellbeing are well represented, Inspire staff have been or are currently active as representatives and advisors on a range of boards, committees and professional bodies, including:

Current

  • Australian Social Inclusion Board (since 2008)
  • Technology and Wellbeing Roundtable (since 2008)
  • Suicide Prevention Australia Board (since 2009)
  • Suicide Prevention Australia Taskforce
  • National Body Image Advisory Group
  • Expert Advisory Group to DoHA on e-Mental Health
  • Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth National Advisory Committee (since 2008)
  • Victorian Youth Participation Network (since 2006)
  • NSW Expert Advisory Group on Drugs and Alcohol (since 2002)
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) Youth Work Program Advisory Committee (2009 Onwards)
  • Berry Street Victoria BeNetWise Project Reference Group (2009 Onwards)
  • ACON Substance Support Service Advisory Board

Past

  • Youth Involvement Advisory Committee to ISPCAN International Congress on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Organising Committee (2004)
  • Headspace Youth Participation Advisory Group (2007)
  • The National Reference Group to the development of the National Youth Involvement Strategy to the National Mental Health and National Suicide Prevention Strategies (2004-2005)
  • Telstra Consumer Consultative Council (1999-2005)
  • Evaluation Steering Group of the National Advisory Council on Youth Suicide (1998-2000)
  • NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health Advisory Board (2002-ongoing)
  • NSW Health Participation Council (2002-2003)

Submissions

Inspire promotes the needs and views of young people by actively engaging in public inquiries held by both government and non-government agencies. Below is a list of submissions Inspire has made in order to influence public policy in relation to young people’s mental health and wellbeing and the role information and communications technology play in its promotion.

Government

Inspire Foundation Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety (June 2010)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the Review of the Commission for Children & Young People Act (June 2010)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health & Ageing Inquiry into Youth Suicide Prevention (July 2010).

Inspire Foundation Response to the Ministerial Council on Drugs Strategy’s National Drug Strategy Beyond 2009 Consultation Paper (March 2010)

Inspire Foundation Response to the Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy’s Consultation Paper on Mandatory Internet Service Provider (ISP) Filtering (February 2010)

Joint Submission to the Australian Senate Community Affairs Commission’s Inquiry into Suicide in Australia (November 2009)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the Austraian Senate Community Affairs Commission’s Inquiry into Suicide in Australia (November 2009)

Inspire Foundation Response to the Productivity Commission’s Draft Research Report on the Contribution of the Not-For-Profit Sector (November 2009)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the Department of Health & Ageing Consultation on Health Care Identifiers & National Health Privacy Arrangements (August 2009)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the NSW Legislative Council General Purpose Standing Committee No.2: Inquiry into bullying of children and young people’ (2009). The full report can be downloaded here.

Inspire Foundation Response to the United Nations World Youth Report 2009: Youth and Climate Change (January 2009)

Inspire Foundation Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (2005)

Inspire Foundation Response to the Legal & Constitutional Committee of the Queensland Parliament Discussion Paper Voices & Votes – A Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into Young People’s Engagement in Democracy in Queensland (July 2005)

NSW Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP) submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Enquiry into Children Living in Immigration Detention with contributions from Inspire Foundation (2002). The shortened report can be downloaded from the CCYP website.

Non-Government

Inspire Foundation Response to Suicide Prevention Australia’s Draft Position Statement – Suicide Bereavement & Postvention (2009)

Inspire Foundation Response to Suicide Prevention Australia’s Draft Position Statement – Supporting Suicide Attempt Survivors (July 2009)

Inspire also consults to government, corporate and non-profit organisations on youth issues.