Mental health carers confront many barriers and failings in a health system where there is a structural stigma and people with mental illness do not…
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Heidi Everett is an experienced producer of innovative lived experience arts projects based in Melbourne, Australia. Using social media, local resources and minimal funding, Heidi…
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Support in mental health services often defaults to ‘formal support’ which is provided by a trained mental health worker. Formal supports, however, are only one…
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Homelessness is a growing issue in Australia. The 2016 Melbourne City Street count indicated the number of people sleeping rough had increased by 70% within…
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The Mental Health Commission of NSW’s major review into its mental health grants was a co-design review conducted by a team of strategic management and…
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The focus of this poster is why we recruited a larger, part-time team rather than smaller with greater hours and consequently what it means for…
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Mind Blank is a charity that generates awareness and innovative education of mental health topics in youth across Australia. To date we have hosted more…
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Mental health services across Victoria are supported to build a Cultural Portfolio Holder program, which aims to build the capacity of the mental health service…
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This is a brief snapshot of the headspace Youth Early Psychosis Program (YEPP) where they have implemented ‘open dialogue’ model of care utilising the family…
adminMarch 13, 2018