An organisation has released a set of guidelines meant to help people experiencing trauma crisis receive appropriate and informed services from concerned sectors, including healthcare professionals, legal practitioners, and even law enforcement. Besides being a ...
The towns of Ceduna, Cummins, Kimba, and Kangaroo Island will receive 10 years of financial support for their mental health initiatives. The funding will come from Our Town, a Fay Fuller Foundation program supporting mental health initiatives. The foundation works ...
Transport and logistics specialist insurer NTI and Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds (HHTS) are urging workers to be mindful of their wellbeing and encouraging motorists to show their thanks to delivery workers. With more than two million parcels ...
The Banksia Project has appointed its first Chief Executive Officer, Peter Seligman to drive the growth of the mental health not-for-profit as it expands nationally to help even more Australian men on their journey towards mental wellness. Offering free programs to support men in the early intervention of mental health since its inception in 2015, The Banksia Project has grown significantly. This year it launched ...
Two children’s charities will receive a combined total of $475,000 from Sony Foundation Australia, a representative said. The two children’s charities are Rural Aid, a mental health initiative for primary school aged children of drought ...
13 locally-run organisations in rural Australia will receive a total of $200,000 in grants to support mental health initiatives from the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR). FRRR’s In a Good Place program, will award grants of ...
Childhood Dementia Initiative (CDI), a newly–launched not-for-profit organisation has released a burden of disease and white paper report detailing how dementia, a disease usually associated with old age, has been found fatal to children across the world including Australia. According to the report, an estimated ...
In early 2019, my colleague at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) had a conversation with a young woman who’d previously experienced a mental health crisis. She explained that when she’d been in a ...
25 – 31 October is Spiritual Care Week, a time to acknowledge the work our Pastoral Care Practitioners do to support the residents and clients of VMCH’s aged care residences, affordable homes, and disability services. ...
21-year-old Cheslyn has always had a passion for animals and is ‘super excited and keen’ to soon realise her dream of working with them, thanks to the support of Happy Paws Happy Hearts Foundation. Earlier ...
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