Mind Australia has created a comprehensive training program to help upskill the family and carer peer workforce in Victoria.
This workforce initiative became necessary when Mind and its partner organisations encountered staffing challenges while establishing two of Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centres.
Mind Australia mental health practitioners in Queensland are maximising the positive impact of family members and other carers in a young person’s mental health recovery.
Mind Australia and Mallee Family Care are proud to announce the official opening of Loddon Mallee Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect – a centre providing support for family members, carers, kin and supporters of people with mental health and/or substance use challenges.
The origins of community mental health and recovery as a core component of mental health care were the topics of discussion at Mind Australia and the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Australia’s (WAPR) recent online event with Dr Roberto Mezzina.
For Mental Health Awareness Month (October) and Mental Health Week (5-12 October) the Mind Australia Group is celebrating the influence of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, personally or as a family member, and lived expertise across its organisations.
New research has found NDIS support workers believe emergency departments to be unsafe environments for NDIS participants with psychosocial disability.
Research conducted by Mind Australia and the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group has been exploring the experience of NDIS participants when presenting to emergency departments.