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Nominations Open for Australian Mental Health Prize

Deadline: 17-Jul-23

Nominations are now open for the Australian Mental Health Prize, which seeks to recognise the important and ground-breaking work that many Australians are doing for mental health.

The Australian Mental Health Prize’s aims

  • Raise public awareness on the importance of mental health
  • Provide an incentive to improve services and outcomes for people with mental illness
Categories
  • The four categories of awards are:
    • Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander:
      • To recognise and celebrate outstanding Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander mental health leadership at a national or community level.
    • Lived experience:
      • To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership by someone with lived experience of mental health, either personally or as a supporter, at a national level.
    • Professional:
      • To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership in the clinical, academic or professional sectors at a national level.
    • Community hero:
      • To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership at a State or community level.

Prize Purpose

  • The purpose of the Prize is to recognise outstanding contributions to mental health in Australia by an individual.
  • The Prize will raise awareness of the importance of mental health and highlight the outstanding work of Australians and Australian residents in this field.
Eligibility Criteria
  • The Prize is awarded annually to Australians who have made outstanding contributions to either the promotion of mental health, or the prevention/treatment of mental illness – in areas such as advocacy, research or service provision. The prize will recognise contributions undertaken in Australia which are of national significance.
  • Entry is by nomination only.
  • Any member of the public or a third party organisation (public, non-government or private) may nominate an entry for the Prize.
  • Self-nominations will not be accepted.
  • Employees of UNSW Sydney may nominate a person for entry.
  • Current UNSW employees are ineligible for nomination.
  • If a nominee is not over the age of eighteen (18), a parent/guardian must accept the nominee’s entry on the nominee’s behalf.
  • A nominee must be an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident.
Judging
  • Chance plays no part in determining the winner of the Prize.
  • The winning nominee will be decided by a panel of judges comprising the Australian Mental Health Prize Advisory Board.
  • The panel of judges shall select 4 winners of the Prize, one for each category listed:
    • Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander: To recognise and celebrate outstanding Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander mental health leadership at a national or community level.
    • Lived experience: To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership at a national level by someone with lived experience of mental health, either personally or as a supporter.
    • Professional: To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership at a national level in the clinical, academic or professional sectors.
    • Community hero: To recognise and celebrate outstanding mental health leadership at a State or community level.
  • Selection of the winning entries will be based on the panel’s assessment of outstanding contribution to either:
    • the promotion of mental health; or
    • the prevention or treatment of mental illness, in areas such as advocacy, research or service provision.
  • If no one is deemed suitable for any of the prizes, no award shall be made for that prize.
  • The panel of judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • All discussions and deliberations of the judging of the Prize will be strictly confidential.
  • The names of the winners of the Prize will not be made public until each person has accepted their nomination for the Prize and selection as a winner in writing.
  • All potential winners must agree to their individual announcement as a winner before the public announcement of the winners.

Details

  • The four winners will be announced on the 25 September 2023.

For more information, visit Australian Mental Health Prize.