Every person in NSW has the right to mental health services that:
- Respect human rights.
- Are compassionate and sensitive to the needs of the individuals they serve.
- Foster positive attitudes to mental health in the larger community.
- Promote positive mental health.
- Encourage true consumer involvement at all levels of service delivery and policy development.
- Provide effective treatment and care across the lifespan.
- Are widely accessible to people with mental health needs.
- Provide care in the least restrictive environment, consistent with treatment requirements.
- Provide effective and comprehensive prevention programs across the lifespan.
- Promote 'living well' with mental illness.
- Address quality of life issues such as accommodation, education, work and income, leisure and sport, home and family and other relationships.
- Use language that reduces stigma, discrimination, or negativity for those affected and their families.
- Respect and are responsive to the diversity in lifestyle, sexuality and sexual preference.
- Are culturally sensitive and appropriate to the needs of the individuals they serve.
- Encourage and support self-help.