Designed by organisations and people with lived experience, Safe Haven Belconnen reports they’re making a real difference after being open for 6 months.
In her occasional column for Canberra Daily, ‘Why your mind matters’, founder of Anytime Counselling, Tina Kendall-Davis BA, BEd, DipCouns, GradDipPsyc, offers general advice to help us cope in everyday situations. This week’s topic: When 7 8 9.
Neighbour Day, a national campaign to ‘check on your neighbour,’ has evolved into an ongoing, year-round social connection campaign, following gaps in social support revealed by the pandemic.
This week, custodian of Neighbour...
Many important conversations are held over a warm cuppa. So, this Mental Health Month, ACT workplaces are encouraged to take a break and host a Wellbeing Priori-Tea and chat about mental health.
Stricter lockdowns in response to COVID-19 led to higher loss in life satisfaction and worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.
“There is not enough housing in the ACT, but just housing isn’t the answer,” says local homeless services provider, Christine Moore, who seeks to draw attention to the link between mental illness...
Australians will today join the conversation to mark R U OK?Day, a national Day of action and a reminder that every day is a day to ask your friends, family and colleagues, ‘are you OK?’.
Over dinner once a month, Men’s Table creates a unique, safe environment for men to share openly about their lives, their challenges, their highs and their lows.
SANE’s CEO, Rachel Green, reflects on the need to take a systems approach to tackling homelessness to improve Australia’s worsening mental health situation
Canberra-based composer Matthew J Webster has struggled with mental health most of his life, spending time in and out of hospital throughout his adult life before a controversial therapy helped him get a better hold of his illness.
People living with complex mental health issues in the ACT are set to benefit from Australia’s first digital and telephone service that provides continuing mental health support designed specifically for them.
