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Shifting minds was developed by the Commission on behalf of Queensland Government. Shifting minds sets a five-year strategic direction for whole-of-government to improve mental health and wellbeing and prevent and reduce the impact of mental ill-health, alcohol and other drugs use, and suicide in Queensland. The plan’s scope is broad and reaches across the continuum of care, and as such focuses on not just the health and treatment system, but touches upon a range of social, community, education, housing, employment, and justice systems as critical determinants of health.
Shifting minds seeks to achieve improved outcomes at the individual, population, and system levels through priority actions across three key areas of focus:
1. Whole-of-community. This focus area seeks to strengthen mental health and wellbeing across the population to promote and keep people well, and to intervene early in life and at the early stages of ill-health, alcohol and other drug use, and/or suicidal distress.
2. Whole-of-person. This focus area seeks to improve and expand integrated and holistic care and support services across the life course and to remove the barriers to social and economic participation for people who are vulnerable, or who are disproportionately impacted by mental ill-health, problematic alcohol and other drug use, or suicide.
3. Whole-of-system. This focus areas seeks to strengthen and optimise the systemic enablers for change including collective accountability and leadership, partnership with people with lived experience, and collaborative planning, funding and delivery of mental health, alcohol and other drugs, and suicide prevention service systems.
Shifting minds was developed based on evidence and informed through consultation with a range of cross-sector and cross-government stakeholders, including with people with lived experience, their families and carers.
The implementation of Shifting minds is based on a recognition that many Queensland Government agencies contribute to and make significant investment in services and programs to improve mental health and reduce the onset and impact of mental ill-health, alcohol and other drugs harms and suicide. Implementation of Shifting minds builds on existing Queensland Government policy, program, and funding with many of the activity already commenced under various government initiatives.
The implementation of Shifting minds is overseen by the Strategic Leadership Group which is a cross-sector and whole-of-government group providing high-level oversight, input and advice to ensure collective accountability and leadership of Shifting minds.
Shifting Minds Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
The Commission has procured consultancy services from a supplier to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework (Attachment A). The Shifting Minds Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (the framework) outlines:
• The program logic, including the changes that are expected as they relate to each strategic direction in Shifting minds.
• The key evaluation questions relating to the change that is expected at the implementation level (how well has Shifting minds been implemented), at the impact level (has Shifting minds achieved the intended outcomes), and at the content level (does Shifting minds meet its goals, were the priorities appropriate for achieving the desired outcomes).
• The general approach to evaluation implementation including data collection approaches (types of evaluation data to be used including case study, surveys, milestone reporting, flagship evaluations), proposed indicators and potential sources of information.
There is scope to adjust aspects of the framework to enable implementation of the evaluation, for example the supplier may recommend additional or alternative indicators and existing data sources needed to answer the key evaluation questions more fully.
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