Mind Australia in conjunction with headspace National is proud to announce the opening of a new headspace service in Box Hill.
Funded by the federal government via the Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, the service will provide free mental health and wellbeing support to young people in the Box Hill region aged 12 to 25 years.
Four Mind Australia peer cadets with lived and living experience of mental ill-health are among the first graduates of the Victorian government’s Peer Cadet Program.
Mind Australia will provide valuable employment opportunities for students undertaking a Certificate IV in Mental Health in regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne.
“Trans people deserve better, and this funding will help organisations to provide crucial support, safety, and care.”
Mind Australia and Mallee Family Care have been chosen to develop urgently needed support services for the families and carers of people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges in the Loddon Mallee region.
Mind Australia’s LGBTIQA+ suicide prevention support service has received a month’s worth of referrals in just two days in the wake of a number of appalling anti-trans events around the country.