Engagement Express

21 May 2025

Community Engagement

Wondering what Community Engagement is? We focus on prevention, collaboration, raising awareness of wellbeing, and promoting local services to young people and their families and friends. We do this through:

  • Free events, programs, information booths, and workshops (e.g., mental health 101 and exam and study stress).
  • Strong relationships in the community with schools, councils, small businesses, services and more! 
  • Encouraging young people 16-25 and family and friends of young people with mental health challenges to volunteer with us and get involved in decisions.

 

Engagement Express!

Our Community Engagement team flew to Naarm/Melbourne and boarded the 2-day Engagement Express! We gathered for the conference on Wurundjeri country in the Kulin nation. Highlights were forming relationships with people we may never have otherwise met, sharing ideas and stories, and enjoying the wonderful food in Naarm.

We're keeping up connections with Community Engagement Officers in WA and interstate who we met. We even visited headspace Albany on Menang Noongar boodja!

For anyone who's curious, here's a summary of what we covered:

Day 1

Day 2
  • Update from Jason Trethowan, headspace's Chief Executive Officer and headspace National support
  • Best ways to engage and collaborate with young people and their families and friends
  • Strategies to promote what we've got on
  • Research on the role and its future
  • Maintaining strong relationships with people from our priority groups (for example, culturally and linguistically diverse young people)
  • Reflection