employment services available to people with disabilities are fraught with complicated access pathways and hoops to jump through. Adopting a partnership approach, the Vocational, Education,…

The PER Team is a unique, consumer evaluation team, which evaluates the clinical mental health services in the Counties Manukau District Health Board (DHB). The…

Reporting and acting on issues that matter to people affected by mental illness. Since 2005, the SANE Research Bulletins have brought together the views of…

The rate of tobacco use amongst people with mental illness is very high and as a result many have significantly reduced life expectancy, poor physical…

Betty Kitchener is the Director of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training Program. She started this program as an unpaid volunteer in 2000. In…

This aim of this documentary was to take the viewer into the world of someone suffering from schizophrenia. Peter Butler, a 32-year-old man who believes…

The Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC) established the Learning and Development Unit (LDU) in 2007 in recognition of the need for mental health specific training…

At a time in our region where property owners were becoming increasingly depressed and we were hearing of more suicides, I was asked to write…

Youth Focus’s approach to address youth suicide, depression and self harm through prevention and early intervention strategies has been firmly focussed on solution and evidence…

An article calling for farming men to attend a mental health workshop in Gunnedah, with extensive quotes by one man whose brother committed suicide and…