By Nicola Ballenden
In this monthly update, I share highlights from Mind Australia’s advocacy work over the past month – including the key issues we’re speaking up on, the conversations shaping the sector, and the opportunities we see to improve outcomes for people experiencing mental health challenges, as well as their families and carers.
At this year’s One Door Mental Health Symposium in Sydney, Mind Board Director, lived experience advocate and award-winning poet Tim Heffernan shared Gaps – a powerful poem exploring the spaces that can exist throughout a person’s mental health journey.
Mind Australia is pleased to announce it has been awarded the contract to provide psychosocial support at the Parkville Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) service in Victoria.
It is with mixed emotions that Mind Australia announces that Katie Larsen, our Executive Director of Lived Experience, will soon leave Mind to take up the newly created role of Deputy Commissioner with the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.
People in Kyneton can now access free, face-to-face mental health support closer to home with the opening of the Mount Alexander Mental Health and Wellbeing Local’s new satellite site.
