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It must be heartbreaking as a parent to see your child’s mental health spiral and feel helpless to stop it. Sandy, a single mother, began to see changes in one of her teenage boys after the family had a rough couple of years.

Mind Australia is partnering with the Mental Health Legal Centre (MHLC) and Leadership Plus to provide individual and system advocacy to help people with psychosocial disability to find safe and secure housing. 

The recipients of the 2025 Mind Stratford Scholarship will develop an online resource that centres the power, resilience, and resourcefulness of people who have experienced forced medical intervention and psychiatric incarceration.

When Alex displays her photographs and hand-drawn portraits at this month’s EIPSRS art exhibition, she will be sharing herself and connecting with others in ways that were once unimaginable to her.

To mark National Reconciliation Week 2025, we asked Wayne McEwan to share his message for reconciliation. Wayne, a proud Bundjalung man who lives on Wadawurrung country, is Mind’s inaugural Manager – First Nations Relationships. 

A feature in The Age, “Number of mentally unwell Victorians killing their parents doubles…” includes a reference to a submission Mind Australia made in 2019 to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. This reference presents our submission in a different context.