Beth Walker is currently the Chief Executive Officer of TEAM Health, (www.teamhealth.asn.au) the Top End Association for Mental Health. TEAM Health is a dynamic medium sized non-government organisation based in Darwin that provides a wide range services to people with a mental illness in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

TEAM Health's services for people who have a mental health issue include providing information, referral to other services, accommodation options, practical life-skills rehabilitation and practical support with activities such as banking, shopping and accessing other services. The association also has aged care packages for older people with a mental illness who are living in the community. The association also promotes community awareness of mental health and October each year coordinates Mental Health Week in Darwin. Most recently TEAM Health has commenced providing family support to families where a parent has a mental illness.

Beth is a community welfare worker and has since undertaken postgraduate studies in social housing management and business management. She has a keen interest in mental health promotion, child and adolescent mental health, indigenous mental health issues, improving health service accessibility for people in rural and remote areas and the development of a comprehensive range of innovative mental health services for people in the Northern Territory.

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