One of the most comprehensive overviews of peer work ever produced, Peer Work in Australia: A new future for mental health, covers Australia’s pioneering role and how peer work has been embraced by mainstream mental health services locally and abroad over the past 20 years.
Chris Blums is a Mind peer practitioner who walks to the beat of his own drum. “I want to be the guy that provides surprises and new experiences,” he says of his work at the Mind centre in Williamstown. “I want people to leave our group and say ‘you won’t believe what we did today’.”
The Western Sydney Recovery College’s Manager Jayke Burgess is passionate about human rights and social justice. Through the College’s LGBTIQA+ Inclusivity course, he has an opportunity to help people from all walks of life to make the spaces they live and work in safer and more inclusive for LGBTIQA+ people.
Mind Australia is proud to announce the next step in our reconciliation journey – the launch of our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).