I entered foster care at just 19 months due to my birth parents’ circumstances. Over the years I lived in five foster homes, one group home, two respite placements and one host family.
Having meaningful and productive conversations with young people can be challenging, especially when trying to discuss their mental health and what’s going on in their lives.
“We need more places that support mental health and housing, and we need to keep the NDIS. The NDIS has changed my life; every day I wake up happy, I’ve got a very good support worker and my life is going well now.”
This is Andrea’s message for Homelessness Week 2025 – a time to raise awareness of the impact of homelessness and the solutions needed to end homelessness.
Mind Australia and our subsidiary One Door Mental Health welcome the New South Wales Government’s continued investment in mental health and suicide prevention in the 2026–27 NSW Budget.
Mind Australia welcomes the Queensland Government’s $400 million commitment over the next four years to fund new and existing mental health services, announced in the 2026/2027 Queensland Budget yesterday.
Mind Australia and One Door Mental Health are delighted to announce Dr Hamish Fibbins and Dr Hayley North as the joint recipients of the 2026 Peter Meyer Research Grant.
In this third and final excerpt from the 2026 Stratford Lecture, Rana Te Huia and Magdel Hammond discuss three structural obstacles to fully realised lived experience organisations.
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