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25.01.2022 The HALT Guest Artist T-Shirt series is here! The HALT guest artist series is a new project, initiated by Jem, our HALT worker, where we collaborate with artists who interpret and reflect HALT's message! First up is a collaboration between Ray Ahn, bass player for legendary Sydney punk band 'The Hard Ons' who originally drew the design and colourist, Simon Robins.... We thank them both from the bottom of our HALT hearts for their support, interpretation and time spent designing and colouring for the new artist series! This is an extremely limited run of T-Shirts and Hoodies with the T-Shirts selling for $35 and the Hoodies for $60. As band T-shirts they will be available in black...and black... Now is your time to support HALT and our new range of Merch! We are taking orders for the next seven days only so get in fast and leave your order! Black - Small, Medium, Large, Xlarge, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL Cheers

24.01.2022 Thanks to Saji and Robert from the Macedon Ranges Shire Coucil for coming along and filming me for a mental health video. Looking forward to when the video is released and we can share it with you all! Thanks for supporting HALT and the work we do across the Macedon Ranges Shire!

23.01.2022 Great to get down to Gisborne with Jem and Co-present a couple of HALT talks, one to the team at the Gisborne Collision Centre and one to Tekweld in the New Gisborne Industrial estate! Jem and I also cruised across to Romsey to speak with businesses about hosting a HALT event for their workforce! Thanks to the businesses for investing in the mental health of their workers and for Jem to get his first HALT events done! Well done Jem, great to have you out with HALT in community!

23.01.2022 Awesome to get across to the Selkirk Brick Factory in Ballarat today for 5 talks on the factory floor with the workers! Thanks heaps Corina for reaching out to HALT and organising the onsite talks and taking me around the site!

21.01.2022 Fantastic picture! This wonderful shot of the Akzo Nobel staff was taken during Tom’s HALT visit to their factory in Sunshine today! With COVID-19 restrictions easing and Xmas coming up, now’s the time to get HALT workers out to talk with your staff and management!

21.01.2022 The HALT graphic story is taking shape thanks to Darren’s wonderful pictures! While we were discussing the origins of HALT I delved into the history books of HALT and found a few photos from our first HALT event, at TONK’s Bro Castlemaine and our second event at Hume and Iser Bendigo! And a huge thanks again to my HALT Co-founder Catherine Pilgrim. And I had hair...

20.01.2022 Hey there Tradies HALT has an online alcohol education event coming up just in time for the silly season check it out....

20.01.2022 HALT has been going fo almost 7 years and one of the biggest risk factors that can create anxiety, stress and depression is finance. Tradies who run a business, this could be just what you need and It's free! Thanks to the Mornington Shire for setting up this event 'Getting paid in Building and construction'... It's well worth the time for the peace of mind it could bring your small business. Jump on and register!

19.01.2022 We’ve all been struggling during this COVID-19 Pandemic and doing it tough across all parts of the community! This has affected us all in different ways, increased anxiety, stress, pressure and social isolation, I know we are doing the best we can and looking out for each other, we will get through this together! During this pandemic we have seen statistics in posts and articles around suicide stating that rates have increased, mostly these statistics have no genuine and le...gitimate source to such claims, causing further anxiety and stress. Please read the letter below from the Coroners Court of Victoria about the rates of suicide. We are getting better at opening up the conversation around mental health and suicide, talking with our mates, throwing off the stigma and shame attached around mental health, reaching out to services and accessing the help when we need. Please call your doctor, lifeline, headspace, counsellor, psychologist, partner or mate. With a whole of community approach to suicide prevention we can reduce rates of suicide in our communities. You are not alone...take care...and reach out... The HALT team

16.01.2022 Fantastic to have the HALT workers back out in the community! Well done Tom and Mick! Mick was out at Bluescope Steel in Hastings today and Tom was at Akzo Nobel in Sunshine! Now’s the perfect time to reach out and have HALT come along and talk with your workers! Take care and have a wonderful weekend!

16.01.2022 Helping each other get through the tough times is part of what being a mate is. We’re here for you tradies. So get in touch today if you and your team could do with a pep talk to get you through these current challenges. While we can’t be with you in real life in all locations across Victoria we CAN offer online talks to you and your mates. And from the feedback we are getting we know that these talks can be just as effective and interactive as our in person talks. Topics co...vered include (but not limited to): -mental health and self care -recognising the signs you or someone else might be struggling with their mental health -practical tools on how to have a tough conversation with a mate about mental health -support services you can access and how to access them. Give Jeremy a buzz on: 0409756274 or email: [email protected] to find out more!

15.01.2022 HALT had a massive morning in Melbourne with the crew from KANE constructions! Two floors with two talks to two crews! Awesome to get our message across to almost 150 Tradies! A huge thanks to Emeile from KANE Co structures for organising the talks and ongoing support of the work HALT is doing for suicide prevention in the trades!

15.01.2022 HALT is at Park Lane Pitstop in the Romsey Industrial estate shouting Egg and Bacon Rolls amd Coffee from 9.30am to 10.30am! Come down!

14.01.2022 Exciting news! The first shots are through of the HALT graphic story! As part of our three year evidence and evaluation project with Swinburne University, we have the extremely talented Darren Fisher on board for a series of graphic stories around HALT. The first is the origin of HALT, everyone loves a good origins story! This is another way of connecting with tradies, especially the younger building and construction apprentices! ... This is a work in progress, thanks heaps Darren! See more

13.01.2022 This is what HALT Team meetings look like in 2020. So proud of our brilliant and hardworking team for all the work they do and the way they’ve all adapted and evolved this year as we’ve been faced with the challenges of a global pandemic. Hang in the there tradies. We bloody love yas and we do this all for you ... Get in touch today if your workplace, club or team could do with some support and/or resources to get you through.

12.01.2022 Let’s give a huge HALT Happy Birthday to our HALT worker Tom! What a lovely way to spend your birthday, running a HALT event in Kyneton! And then we had a lovely pie and a team meeting! And we’ve got some photos to reflect Tom’s time with HALT Have a lovely night mate!

12.01.2022 Hey tradies! Here is an upcoming event from the HALT South East Melbourne crew! You will have the opportunity to access knowledge from some experts in the field questions around all things alcohol, drugs and gambling, please tell us what you would like to know by sending Mick a private message on the HALT South East Melbourne Facebook page or email [email protected] Hope you can make it along!

12.01.2022 Check out the new wheels! A massive thanks to Tony Groves and the team from Mornington Mazda for Mick’s new Mazda BT-50. And Mick gets his own name on the ute! ... Look out for it in the South East suburbs of Melbourne and on the Mornington Peninsula! Thanks heaps Mazda Australia

10.01.2022 Well done to HALT South East Melbourne team member Mick Matthews for his work getting this informative and interesting talk to the people. Gambling issues can affect anyone at anytime. If you or someone you know is affected by problem gambling you will definitely find this discussion helpful. Plenty of tools and resources out there to help you and your loved ones. Take care everyone.

09.01.2022 Happy 7th Birthday To HALT 7 years ago we held our first ‘Save your Bacon’ brekky at Tonks Bros Hardware store in Castlemaine! Look at what we started Catherine Pilgrim... What an amazing journey we’ve been on! We are now building a National Program! Thanks heaps to every single person that has supported, encouraged and contributed to getting HALT to where we are now! We couldn’t do this without the support of communtiy! Here are some photos from our very 1st HALT event 7 years ago!

08.01.2022 It’s 5.37pm on Fathers Day. I hope all the Fathers out there, the step fathers, father figures, and all other versions, have had a lovely day. For some of us, not so good today, troubled memories, loss, grief, abandonment, frustration and sadness.... If you are struggling today please reach out to someone, anyone...Lifeline 13 11 14 Take care tonight, enjoy the moments, build the memories, practice empathy, be a good listener and know you’re not alone! Send the love, have the conversation and please look after yourself! The HALT team

07.01.2022 Awesome work Mick on the Zoom event this morning, talking with almost 70 students, teachers and educators about the high levels of anxiety and stress that the current COVID-19 pandemic is causing and what support services are out there to help! Thanks to Tom from HALT for supporting Mick as well as several headspace representatives being there just in case people needed some support and advice. Looking forward to the upcoming events tomorrow and Wednesday night!

07.01.2022 A huge thanks to Tom and Jem for their work in community this week! Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic and tough times we are all going through, HALT has been out in the Macedon Ranges community, running events and letting the businesses know HALT is there to support them however we can! We are locking in events across the Macedon Ranges shire! ... We’ve also been shooting videos to help out businesses with our new camera! Thanks lads!

06.01.2022 A huge thanks and gratitude to Michael Wolfe for entering a photo of me, in HALT pose mode, in the Martin Kandor portrait prize at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale! I've known Wolfey for a long time now and as well as being a great mate and amazing artist, he is also the designer of the HALT logo back in 2013! Wolfey has also volunteered a lot of his time during the first few years of HALT to set up and design posters, brochures and lots of one pagers! ... I know I'm no oil paining, so thank you for capturing my better side....

05.01.2022 Come work with HALT.... And here is the link to the jobs!

05.01.2022 World Suicide Prevention Day and RUOK today, although don’t forget we can have the tough conversation with our mates and family every day! HALT took it to the streets today, shouting coffees, egg and bacon rolls and all sorts of goodies across Victoria to Tradies and anyone that was in the shops! Lovely work lads! ... Lots of COVID-19 Wellbeing Toolkits handed out and conversations started from 5.30am onwards! Thanks to all the businesses that supported us and to Kerry and Marg from the Mt Alexander Shire!

03.01.2022 Happy Birthday Tina! Our favourite HALT project coordinator! Tina does a lot of work behind the scenes with the HALT workers and Swinburne, as well as putting up with me and being a wonderful project coordinator! ... Thanks for your patience, energy and support of HALT Tina!

03.01.2022 This is a Public Service Announcement! Tis the season for skin checks! Today I rocked some minor surgery in my fav beanie and flannel...... I had a BCC, Basal Cell Cancer, cut out today at the Skin Health Institute in Carlton. I’m fine, recovering well but I’m putting the call out to tradies out there to get to the doctor or local clinic and have your skin checked! I was talking to one of the nurses today about HALT and she said her father, a bricklayer, passed away from a melanoma and her brothers are bricklayers, working out on the sun and she worries about them. So, tradies, go and get those spots checked, and check in with the doctor about any other physical or mental health issues that are going on in your life! And a huge thanks to Dr Bonnie Swan and the team from the Skin Health Institute, they were supportive, caring and wonderful! Thanks for looking after me today!

01.01.2022 For those missing hanging out with your mates on the footy field...we get it. These are challenging times. HALT is here for you. Please get in touch today if you or your team need support and could benefit from a talk with one of our team. OR check out the huge list of support services listed here and reach out to them today.

01.01.2022 These are certainly tough times we live in and one of the issues we might be facing is our gambling habits getting out of control. If you or someone you know is struggling to keep their gambling under control, tonight would be a good opportunity to listen in to Mick Matthews from HALT and representatives from Gamblers Help Southern. Click on the link below at 6.30pm tonight!

01.01.2022 Tomorrow is both RUOK Day and World Suicide Prevention Day. So what does that mean? Free Coffee’s and Egg and Bacon Rolls! ... And special RUOK Day Kit Kat’s from the Mt Alexander Shire! And lots of information about looking after yourself and your mates! When: Thursday the 10th of September Where? 5.30am to 6.30am, Top Shop, Castlemaine 6.30am to 7.30am Rick’s Coffee Cart, out front of ‘The Snip’ barber shop. 7.30am to 8.30am, back to the Top Shop 9am to 10am, Das Kaffeehaus, The Mill, Castlemaine We wanted to cover a few places to give the tradies plenty of options for coffee and food! See you tomorrow morning, nice and early! (Photo with Rick and the tradies was pre-Covid!)