The ACT Child and Youth Mental Health Sector Alliance acknowledges the Ngunnawal people as the Traditional Owners and continuing Custodians of the lands of the ACT. We pay our respects to the Elders, families and ancestors, and extend our gratitude for their ongoing contributions to the ACT community.

The voices of children and young people with lived experience of mental health issues and caring, families and kinship groups, are vitally important to our work. The Alliance acknowledges the expertise acquired through living with mental health concerns, trauma, neurodiversity and caring for people on their recovery journeys. We place lived experience at the heart of all we do, and value co-design and co-production.

The Alliance strongly supports equality for all. We embrace diversity and condemn any kind of discrimination, be it on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

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