Not-for-profit frontline mental health services are being forced to beg for small change as they manage the fall-out from the mental health funding model. Suzanne James reports.
counselling services
Monash University plans to remove one-third of its counsellors and replace them with contractor or private practice psychologists.
It says this will improve access to counselling services.
But Monash Student Association spokesperson Kim Stern said: 鈥淪tudents are extremely angry. It鈥檚 a known thing at Monash that the services are minimal, to put it nicely.
"It鈥檚 very hard at the moment to get a counsellor and it鈥檚 a slap in the face that there鈥檚 now moves to cut counsellors and limit their role on campus.鈥