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Welcome to the Spring edition of headspace’s eNewsletter.
This week is Mental Health Week, a time to celebrate good mental health and well-being. headspace centres across Australia will be conducting a range of events and activities this week to raise awareness and encourage young Australians to seek help early. With the theme of World Mental Health Day (this Friday) being 'Making Mental Health a Global Priority: Scaling Up Services Through Citizen Advocacy and Action' I urge you to get involved in local community activities and help spread our important message.
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Snails... Daisies... Avocados... Porridge...
No it’s not ingredients for the latest health shake, nor is it the Table of Contents for a headspace cookbook, but rather a recipe for success!
headspace is preparing to embark on an exciting new advertising and social marketing campaign – headspace centres: Someone else to go to.
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M&C SAATCHI’s Colin Jowell:
What was the best advice your mother and father gave you?
It wasn’t so much advice as it was a principle: Integrity. People will probably laugh at that, given that I work in a profession renowned for its lack of honesty, but I’ve always looked for a way to tell the truth, whatever that truth is, no matter how hard it is to hear. It’s confronting to others, but at the end of the day, people will trust you.
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Making Mental Health everyone’s business was the overriding theme of ‘From Margins to Mainstream - the 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders’. The conference held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 10th to 12th of September explored new ways that individuals and organisations from a range of sectors could promote mental health and prevent mental illness.
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In the lead up to Mental Health Week headspace Barwon launched a competition inviting young people in the Geelong region to ’voice’ their thoughts about mental health. Young people were asked to enter a written piece (in the form of a song, spoken words, or a poem) about their experiences with mental health or how to maintain good mental health.
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headspace’s first centre in the ACT officially opened in Canberra on Tuesday 9 September with a bright, colourful and fun-filled event at the University of Canberra hub. David Crosbie from the Mental Health Council of Australia officially opened the service by unveiling a beautiful vibrant piece of artwork specially created for headspace ACT by young people.
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September has been a busy month in the area of youth mental health on the community and media agenda. No less than four major reports, studies and surveys being released all containing new insights into key issues on youth mental health, binge drinking and help seeking.
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Bullying is consistently one of the top issues of concern for young people visiting headspace’s website. That’s why on Thursday 21st of August 2008, we facilitated our first ‘Ask an Expert’ online forum on bullying. Panelists, Andrew Fuller and Tom Wood were kept busy answering questions from young people, parents, friends and teachers.
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