By Belinda Gazic and Marnie Deller.
Mental health challenges are a strong predictor of unstable housing throughout a person’s life. Without access to stable, supported accommodation, cycles of unwellness, housing instability and interactions with clinical systems persist. ₁ (Brackertz, Borrowman, Roggenbuck, Pollock, & Davis, 2020).
Mind Australia, Ballarat Community Health and Grampians Community Health are delighted to announce the official opening of the Grampians Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect – a centre providing lived experience-led support for family members, carers, kin and other people who support someone experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges.
Mind Australia and Primary Care Connect are seeking expressions of interest to help design a new compassionate community based support service in Shepparton, Victoria.
The One Door Mental Health Fellowship has celebrated its one-year anniversary at an end-of-year gathering at Parramatta Town Hall in New South Wales.
Referrals for Mind Australia’s LGBTIQA+ Aftercare support service have increased 65% between 2023 and 2024.
Mind Australia has signed the Changing the Landscape Statement to advocate for better, peer led, suicide prevention services for LGBTIQA+SB* people.
The Changing the Landscape campaign is a project of Switchboard Victoria, generously funded by LGBTIQ+ Health Australia’s Mindout Program.