Mind Australia is working with young people and their families within primary school settings to help students manage emotional distress and improve mental wellbeing.
NSW Labor has committed $20 million to build the state’s first Haven residence for people with significant mental health challenges, if it wins election this month.
If elected, a Labor government will build three Haven residences in total - starting with one on the Central Coast.
By Gill Callister - Mind Australia CEO
Revolution is not a one-time event.
So the quote goes from writer and activist, Audre Lorde. It’s a quote that comes to mind as International Women’s Day (8 March) rolls around again.
Mind Australia in conjunction with headspace National is proud to announce the opening of a new headspace service in Box Hill.
Funded by the federal government via the Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, the service will provide free mental health and wellbeing support to young people in the Box Hill region aged 12 to 25 years.
Four Mind Australia peer cadets with lived and living experience of mental ill-health are among the first graduates of the Victorian government’s Peer Cadet Program.
Mind Australia will provide valuable employment opportunities for students undertaking a Certificate IV in Mental Health in regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne.