SANE Research Bulletins

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…
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April 17, 2015

BETTY KITCHENER

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…
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April 17, 2015

Just a Little Mad

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…
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April 17, 2015

The Learning and Development Unit (LDU)

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…
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April 17, 2015

Reaching Out

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…
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April 17, 2015

Farmers’ Mental Health Workshop

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…
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April 17, 2015