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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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…
adminApril 17, 2015
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…
adminApril 17, 2015
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…
adminApril 17, 2015
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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Toi Ora Live Art Trust is a creative (NGO) arts centre for people with experience of mental ill health. Toi Ora provides studio space, resources…
adminApril 17, 2015
Breaking free of the stigma of mental illness has been the main motivation behind the staging of an annual event to celebrate the positives of…
adminApril 17, 2015
For ten years now a group of consumers have provided a powerful and successful mental health awareness program to some 5000 students. From year 9…
adminApril 17, 2015