By Cassi Strauss – Mind Australia peer practitioner.
To mark Mental Health Week (9-16 October) members of Mind Australia’s Lived Experience Advisory Team are sharing their wellbeing tips based on their own personal experiences.
The Mind Australia-managed headspace service in Greensborough encouraged young people to slow down and take time to prioritise their mental health at their recent National headspace Day celebration.
Mind Australia will continue to support people who experienced homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to a funding extension for the From Homelessness to a Home program, announced by the Victorian government.
Mind Australia will lead the development of an innovative new residential mental health recovery support service in Victoria in which people with lived experience will play a central role.
The link between mental health and safe, secure housing was a prominent theme during Mind Australia’s second webinar in the ‘Respect in action’ series.
Mind’s Respect in action webinars are designed to foster conversations and provide an opportunity to learn more about the mental health needs of people from all backgrounds, ages and abilities.