Rethinking Thoughts

Self-harm involves the deliberate causing of pain or injury to oneself – usually as an extreme way of trying to cope with distressing or painful feelings.

Sometimes the difference between a person attempting suicide and getting the help they need, is the intervention of an ordinary person like you.

safeTALK is a half-day alertness workshop that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper.

Recovery Oriented Practice is an approach to mental health services which prioritises holistic wellbeing, self-determination and consumer-centred practice.

Service providers and practitioners need to take an individualised, strength-based approach to service provision and be able to form strong recovery alliances.

How’s your relationship with your stress levels?

Does your anxiety do what it’s told? Or does it sometimes misbehave?

This course explores practical ways you can manage your emotions, reign in your worry and get your anxiety to lie down and roll over!

Over half of people with a serious mental illness are known to misuse substances, while 84% of substance misusers have some sort of mental health disorder.

These statistics are even more troubling in view of the fact that the mental health and AOD sectors were historically very separate in Australia and even today a majority of professionals are not comprehensively dual-trained.