This Mental Health Month (October), why thousands of Australians are embracing a different way to shop – bringing food, purpose and human connection back into focus as everyday ingredients of wellbeing.There was a time when buying food meant knowing your local butcher, greengrocer or corner-store owner, bumping into neighbours and having some connection to where…
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Australia Post and Beyond Blue Send out Five million Connection Postcards
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Five million mailboxes, including every regional and rural home across Australia, will receive a special prepaid postcard this May, thanks to an expanded campaign between Australia Post and Beyond Blue. In response to the pressing need for mental health support, Australia Post and Beyond Blue have significantly increased distribution of their annual campaign, adding an…
MDFF- This Man’s Worth
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Director Ash Cottrell Rated E Score 5/6 At the conclusion of fulfilling working lives, two very different men, Graeme and Michael, convinced of their loss of identity and disconnection to the world around them, decide that suicide is their only option. Only one man survives the attempt on his life. I think that this might…
Beyond Blue – Big Blue Table
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Beyond Blue is encouraging people to share a meal and start a conversation around mental health to support those impacted by anxiety, depression, and suicide. The new initiative, Big Blue Table, takes place from 1 – 8 October, to kick off the first week of Mental Health Month.With the aim to raise funds for the…
Coles Partners With The Resilience Project
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A positive mental health program to help students build resilience and cope with stress will be delivered in 20 schools across Australia thanks to a new partnership with Coles and The Resilience Project. The education partnership was officially launched at Shepparton East Primary School by Collingwood Football Club’s AFLW young gun Jordyn Allen who shared…
Australia Post Announces 2021 Community Grants recipients
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Australia Post have announced the recipients of its 2021 Community Grants, with 76 organisations awarded a total of more than $500,000 in funding in support of mental health projects. Australia Post Head of Community Nicky Tracey said she was delighted to support projects making a real difference to mental health, with recipients catering to a…
Australia Post Providing 4 Million Free Postcards To Remote and Rural Households
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Australia Post is helping Australians stay connected by delivering more than 4 million specially designed prepaid postcards to rural and remote households across the country as part of its continued focus on mental health. Australia Post Head of Community Nicky Tracey said that the postcards were designed in collaboration with Australia Post’s mental health partner…
ISOlation Photography for Mental Health
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Editor’s Note: A Big thank you to Karen Merry for writing and submitting this article. 2020 will go down as the year the world changed. Coronavirus, Covid 19, Social Distancing, flattening the curve, unprecedented, unchartered are all words some of us would prefer never to hear again. Some of the stressors of daily life have…
OzHelp and SIHQ collaborating to deliver nationwide access to mental health support
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A ground-breaking collaboration between OzHelp Foundation and SIHQ will launch a new digital counseling platform to provide access to life saving mental health services to Australian workplaces across the country. OzHelp and SIHQ have been developing the fully automated, encrypted video psychology platform over the past 18 months to provide essential health support to workers…
What Song has had a Positive Impact on your Mental Health?
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TV and radio personality, podcaster and SANE Australia Board Director Osher Günsberg is calling for people to share their top song that’s had a positive impact on their mental health. The songs will be added to a playlist which will celebrate the power of music in improving moods. “As someone who used to play music…