Alliance Human Rights Survey 2024

This national survey being undertaken by the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance (the Alliance) is looking at how well mental health consumers had their human rights met in 2024. We want to hear about how human rights-based approaches have respected, protected, and promoted people’s dignity, as well as times when people’s inalienable rights to mental health have been breached. Your experiences may have been in the mental health system, but also in justice, health, or other social sectors.

While we understand that there is strong evidence that applying Human Rights frameworks across society will improve the experience of people involved with the mental health sector, we also recognise that some people do not identify as mental health consumers nor identify as a person with disability.

Please complete this survey if you are a mental health consumer/person with lived experience and/or identify as having psychosocial disability. The three terms can be interchanged for the purposes of this survey, i.e. for psychosocial disability please read mental health consumer/lived experience/person with a mental health issue. There are 51 multiple choice/check box questions.

You may find some of the questions in this survey distressing. If you need someone to talk to, please consider reaching out to one of the following support services:

* 13YARN: 13 92 76 (national crisis support line for mob who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping)

* QLife: 1800 184 527 (3pm - midnight)