Mind Australia congratulates Board Directors Ruth Picker and Dr Margaret Grigg on being recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List.
On Monday 12 June 2023, Governor-General David Hurley announced honours and awards for more than 1,900 Australians, including Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and Member of the order of Australia (AM) recipients.
Mind Australia is hosting an online event discussing what we have learnt from championing lived experience at the heart of everything we do.
Mind Australia strongly supports a First Nations Voice to Parliament.
We believe that constitutional recognition and the opportunity to have a greater say in policies and programs that directly affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is essential for the healing and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Mind First Nations Lead Practitioner Trudy Sansbury says one reason many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people don’t access mental health services is because they don’t know they exist.
Mind Australia is now accepting applications for the second round of the Victorian government’s Peer Cadet Program.
Mind is one of nine community service organisations taking part in the program, which provides paid employment opportunities for people with lived and living experience of mental ill-health.
Mind Australia clients across Melbourne will showcase how they use creative practice to express themselves and advance their mental health recovery at a public art display.