Key initiatives in the 2024-25 budget 

• $32.2 million to continue existing suicide prevention programs and initiatives.
• $10.6 million for an extension to the Active Recovery Team (ART) pilot program.
• $12.3 million to continue the Social and Emotional Wellbeing programs.
• $22.4 million to extend the east metropolitan Acute Care Response Teams (ACRT), and establish three new teams, in the north and south metropolitan areas and the Great Southern region.
• $19.5 million to continue the expanded Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Crisis Connect service.
• $4.7 million to continue the WA Country Health Service Brief Crisis Intervention (BCI) Service.
• $10.7 million for the construction of a new 26-bed Sobering Up Centre (SUC) in Broome.
• $17 million for forensic mental health services required for enactment of the new Criminal Law (Mental Impairment) Act 2023 (the Act), from 1 September 2024. This also includes funding to the Mental Health Advocacy Service and the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist to support the implementation of the Act.
• $7.9 million to a Western Australian Virtual Emergency Department (WAVED) mental health component and an ambulance co-response model in the metropolitan area.
• $13.6 million to ensure eight private psychiatric hostels can continue to meet minimum staffing requirements.