Delhuntie Youth Care mobile Pinnacle Program is a 5-part youth suicide and resilience program that challenges at risk youth with adventure therapy, aiming to promote team building, motivation, personal development, health and wellbeing.
Funded by NSW Health, Doing It Tough was created by Suicide Prevention Australia in partnership with Australian Men’s Health Forum in consultation with people who have lived experience of suicide and mental health.
Paramedics play an essential and irreplaceable role in our community and are regularly ranked as one of the most trusted professions in Australia. But due to the high stress work with exposure to trauma, long and shifting work hours and low rates of help-seeking – they are nearly twice as likely as the general population to experience mental ill-health.
The PHN’s recent Community Recovery and Reconnection Grants offered the opportunity for organisations to host activities and programs that would help their communities to reconnect and rebuild their resilience.
The Central Coast Local Health District's Mental Health Unit has developed a Disaster Recovery and Resilience Support Information brochure for the general public.
More than 5,000 individuals across the Hunter, New England and Central Coast regions have received federally funded mental health treatment through programs designed and commissioned by the Primary Health Network (the PHN).
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (The PHN) has announced funding of $350,000 to recruit and retain mental health practitioners to the state’s Central Coast, Hunter, Upper Hunter, Mid Coast, New England and North West regions.
Funding of $7.5 million will establish and operate two independent national mental health lived experience peak bodies – one representing consumers and the other representing carers, families and kin.
Alternative service options providing moderate psychological intervention.
A vital service for young people has been officially opened today with Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, the Hon Emma McBride MP, cutting the ribbon at headspace Wyong.