Mind Australia has been chosen to operate a new peer-led sub-acute residential mental health service in Victoria Park, Western Australia.
Mind Australia’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs are providing emotional and practical support to Victorians affected by the floods.
Mind Australia’s new Family, Friends and Carers Support (FFCS) provides targeted support to young people who care for someone with mental ill-health or drug and alcohol addiction.
By Leilani Darwin, Director, Mind Australia. Leilani is a proud Quandamooka woman, whose ancestral home is Stradbroke Island.
When you are somebody who happens to work nationally across both the mental health and suicide prevention sectors you would hope that finding help would be possible. What if I told you that it is, in fact, the complete opposite?
Katie Larsen
Senior Manager Inclusion and Participation, Mind Australia
Each World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to take stock and consider where we are at this moment in our long journey towards a mental health system that is more effective, more humane, more just and more enlightened.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become” - Carl Gustav Jung
This year Mind has chosen to focus our World Mental Health Day celebrations on the unique capabilities that people with lived experience bring to mental health and wellbeing recovery.