community awareness & engagement

headspace Albury Wodonga and headspace Wangaratta

To request the support of our Community Awareness and Engagement team, please fill out a request form here. 

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meet the CAE team!

Youth Pride Coordinator

Belle (They/Them)

Belle facilitates the Way Out Wodonga program, supporting LGBTQIASB+ young people by providing advice, information, and support. Belle is your go-to for anything Pride, including event attendances and social connection opportunities for LGBTQIASB+ young people. 

If you would like to request Belle's attendance at an event, activity, or meeting, please fill out this form. 

Community Awareness & Engagement Coordinator

Lara (She/Her)

Lara supports young people, services and organisations within our communities by facilitating mental health and wellbeing presentations, workshops, collaborations and events. 

If you are a school, service, club, community group or organisation, please fill out this form to begin the booking process. 

Cultural Connections Coordinator 

Ruby (She/Her)

Ruby's position aims to ensure the cultural safety and inclusiveness of our local headspace centres by engaging with culturally-and-linguistically-diverse-focused groups and organisations throughout our communities. 

If you would like Ruby to engage with the young people at your multicultural group, organisation, or service by providing information about headspace Albury Wodonga and headspace Wangaratta, or attend or collaborate on a multicultural event or activity, please fill out this form. 

Peer Worker

Jo (She/Her)

Jo utilises her lived experience to provide safe, inclusive social connection opportunities for young people. If you would like to contact Jo with any questions regarding Peer Work or your current social groups, please see this form. 

our mission

Our small, part-time Community Engagement team is dedicated to supporting headspace by promoting positive mental health among young people, families, schools, and organisations throughout Albury Wodonga, Wangaratta and surrounding communities.

We focus on spreading awareness of headspace National resources and our centre-specific services, the importance of early help-seeking and optimising accessibility of our services.

presentations

We conduct health-focused presentations for students, parents, educators, and school staff focusing on headspace Albury Wodonga and headspace Wangaratta services. Our talks cover a range of topics, more information can be found here. 

Our presentations aim to encourage early help-seeking behaviours and cover various topics including mental health awareness, tips for a healthy headspace, physical and sexual health, substance use, bullying education, and how to help a friend.

collaborations

We love teaming up with schools, organisations and community groups to organise events and activities, coincing with dates of significnace; such as Wear It Purple Day, Harmony Day, Youth Week, and NAIDOC Week. We can also support you by providing resources, or hosting a stall at your organised wellbeing event. 

Click here to get the process started!

Together, we can design engaging events, workshops and presentations, centred around wellbeing.

priority groups

Our priority groups include young men, young people disengaged from education or work, First Nations young people, young people who use alcohol and other drugs, linguistically and culturally diverse young people, and LGBTQIASB+ young people.

Requests aligned with these groups are prioritised

We cannot assist with medical or crisis interventions or requests with a therapeutic focus. For evidence based, clinical run programs, please click here.