The Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee provides CESPHN with advice and input from a wide range of relevant stakeholders on the development of primary mental health care. 

The Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee is responsible for:

• Providing strategic advice to CESPHN on the development of innovative services, implementation of new models of care and best practice models.
• Advising on how to best support the development of approaches to building regional integration, capacity, capability, quality and safety in local mental health and suicide prevention services.
• Advising on mental health and suicide prevention commissioning activities and priorities.
• Contributing to and supporting the development of regional mental health and suicide prevention strategies.
• Supporting the co-design of mental health and suicide prevention programs.
• Advising on how to better support local primary care providers to improve client outcomes and experiences with their health care within a Stepped Care approach.
• Providing advice and communication channels for the flow of information about current initiatives.