Mental Health Coalition of South Australia in North Adelaide, South Australia | Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

Mental Health Coalition of South Australia

Locality: North Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8212 8873

Address: L1/80 Brougham Place 5006 North Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.mhcsa.org.au

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25.01.2022 Do you know a Lived Experience Worker who deserves a 2020 Lived Experience Award? Do you know an organisation who should be recognised for how it supports and develops its Lived Experience Workforce? Why not nominate them for a Lived Experience Award, presented by the MHCSA and Lived Experience Workforce Program (LEWP)?... More details and nominee forms here: https://bit.ly/3gOKfbp Entries close 5pm Monday 14 September, 2020 #mentalhealth #livedexperience #MentalHealthWeek #MHW2020 #MentalHealthWeekSA

25.01.2022 "Two of the effects that are most clearly known are that contact with nature, views of nature, help rejuvenate our attention and they also help us relax and in a kind of profound way. And surprisingly both of those very simple effects have really huge ramifications," she says.

24.01.2022 Shine a light on Lived Experience work this #MentalHealthWeek. Nominate a colleague or yourself for the MHCSA Lived Experience Awards now: https://bit.ly/2ZEyiyr

24.01.2022 Help shape a new mental health crisis service in Adelaide! Attend some information and consultation sessions to contribute to the co-design of the Urgent Menta...l Health Care Centre (UMHCC). Contact Rebecca for more info: 0437 180 036 [email protected]

23.01.2022 2020 LIVED EXPERIENCE AWARDS NOW OPEN Do you know a Lived Experience Worker who deserves a 2020 Lived Experience Award? Do you know an organisation who should be recognised for how it supports and develops its Lived Experience Workforce?... Why not nominate them for a Lived Experience Award, presented by the MHCSA and Lived Experience Workforce Program (LEWP)? The Lived Experience Awards aim to: - Publicly recognise and celebrate the outstanding or extraordinary achievements of people in designated lived experience roles - Publicly recognise and celebrate the achievements of organisations which have not only embraced the Lived Experience Workforce but demonstrate commitment to supporting and growing it. More details and nominee forms here: https://bit.ly/3gOKfbp

22.01.2022 What's your joy?

22.01.2022 Did you know there are around 37,000 community services workers in South Australia? Thats 4% of our states workforce- and although they do essential work, they dont often get the recognition they deserve. Thats why South Australian Council of Social Service is launching a new campaign to recognise, promote and build pride in the community sector - #HereForSA

21.01.2022 The community services sector plays a huge role in the South Australian economy - 37,000 workers and 54,209 volunteers across 765 organisations, with a total sector revenue of $2.996bn. That's 2.7% of the state's economy! But the importance of our sector goes way beyond its economic value. The 4% of workers who provide vital services to South Australia don't often get the recognition they deserve. Its time to #SAyThanks to all the community services who are #HereForSA South Australian Council of Social Service

21.01.2022 This year the theme for Homelessness Week (#HW2020 2-7 August) is Everybody Needs a Home. Find local events and webinars for the week through our Events Calendar here: https://bit.ly/30ScQpk

20.01.2022 Apply for up to $1000 funding for your very own #MentalHealthWeek event in rural or regional SA. Applications close 5pm Monday 17 August! More details: https://bit.ly/2Od54AM

18.01.2022 Hi everyone, Mental Health Week 2020 is coming up (10-17 October) and the MHCSA and mindshare team want to support you in working to raise awareness and address stigma in your community. Our Rural Grants are still open, offering regional groups the chance to host their own Mental Health Week events. ... Were also busy collating your written works and art pieces for this years #mindshareAwards and #mindshareExhibition. You can even nominate someone you know for a Lived Experience Award through the MHCSA. Our Mental Health Week program will be launching soon, but wed love to know what YOU think will make a difference for mental health in 2020. Comment below, or repost this image with your hopes for community wellbeing moving forward. What does Every person, every community mean to you? This beautiful image was taken by EVKA Photo & Film at last years Mental Health Week launch, featuring bright stars Bec Stevens and Sunny the MindDog. Because sometimes the best thing for your health is music in the square and a little bit of love from a furry friend. #MHW2020 #MentalHealthWeek #EveryPersonEveryCommunity Rural Grants https://bit.ly/3gLT19X Lived Experience Awards https://bit.ly/33NjNes mindshare Awards https://bit.ly/2DIpZKj

18.01.2022 Get creative in a safe space this #MentalHealthWeek. Accessible from across all of SA via the Internet. Limited spaces, so register now!

18.01.2022 "People power is an under-utilised and often hidden super power. There is so much to learn about our potential to help ourselves and others." The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

18.01.2022 Peers at Work will be holding its first information session where they will be introducing the world to Peers at Work and everything that it can achieve. Peers at Work is a co-operative organisation that will be owned, governed and run by those with a lived experience of mental illness and recovery. It is being established to contribute quality, reliability and innovation in the mental health support sector. Join them and help shape this new service and learn about the benefits of becoming a member. Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/peers-at-work

17.01.2022 "We wanted to be able to connect with others, be someone to have a chat to, so that's what we do and that's why we started the business. One cup of coffee at a time.

16.01.2022 It can be daunting trying to work out how to get help with your mental health. Heres how to start seeing a therapist if you never have before.

14.01.2022 "It is definitely a hard time to have mental health challenges, but we must not give up. We must continue to voice our concerns, seek out the support we deserve and demand it where it doesnt already exist. If there was ever a time we needed to bridge the gap and create adequate resources, it is now." The voice of lived experience from inside Victoria's COVID-19 lockdown.

14.01.2022 "Chanceline Kakule says she is feeling how she imagines every black person is right now: exhausted." Some pieces from ABC Adelaide on how to actually deal with the mental health impacts of racism while talk of race and #BlackLivesMatter is everywhere.

12.01.2022 The MHCSA welcomes news that South Australias new Urgent Mental Health Care Centre will be delivered by local community mental health service provider Neami National with RI International. This much needed centre is the first of its kind in Australia while similar models have been operating for a number of years in the United States. It will provide a high quality alternative to the Emergency Department and has been developed based on strong feedback from the experiences of... people with mental illness and their families as well as clinicians. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3kkO8WT

12.01.2022 As part of our #FoNline program next week, SA's MentalHealth Commissioners will be hosting a live-streamed discussion: "What's this thing called Peer Work?" Have you ever wondered the same thing? Are you interested in learning more about the Lived Experience workforce? ... We're asking our community what points and questions they'd like to see discussed on Friday December 4. Comment below and we'll pass your question along! #FestivalofNow #FestivalofNow2020 #FoN #FoN2020 #PeerWork #livedexperience

12.01.2022 For those with lived experience, researchers from the Centre for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne invite you to take part in a research project. This project to inform options for a national approach to reducing stigma and discrimination towards people with mental illness that is poorly understood in the community. More info here: https://bit.ly/3mxXG2X

11.01.2022 For the month of October, Business SA will be running a new Workplace Challenge. By taking part, your business will receive a Mind Your Health Toolkit including posters, challenges, tools, tips and other resources to help create a positive, mentally healthy workplace. Register your workplace here https://bit.ly/2H5AJUo

11.01.2022 Dont snooze on this one! 25 tickets of 65 gone already Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/poetry-prescribed-tickets-1 #MentalHealthWeek #SAMentalHealt...hWeek #MHW2020 #EveryPersonEveryCommunity Draw Your - Swords See more

11.01.2022 "More than three million Australians suffer from depression and anxiety and other mental health problems. How easy is it for people from our multicultural communities to access help? They may struggle navigating our health system, with language skills or gaining culturally appropriate information. Are people in our large ethnic communities accessing and receiving culturally and linguistically appropriate information and treatment for mental health concerns? And how is men...tal health viewed by other cultures? Guests: Dina Korkees - works for Foundation House in their Community Capacity Team on Mental Health programs (Assyrian Christian) Grant Blaskhki is a Melbourne based GP and advisor for Beyond Blue (Works with Chinese community) Suchitra Chari - Mental Health Social Worker and Board member of Sane Australia (Indian Australian) Xavier Mulenga - is a final year trainee in Psychiatry at Royal North Shore Hospital and does outreach work in the African community (Zambian Australian) Producer - Skye Docherty

10.01.2022 Get your tickets early in 2020 to avoid missing out! Limited capacity for all face-to-face events.

09.01.2022 Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and @R U OK Day. We remember those we have lost and acknowledge the suffering of loved ones left behind. This years RUOK theme is Theres more to say after are you okay. Check out the RUOK website for great tips on how to start and stay in a conversation about mental health: https://www.ruok.org.au/ Please reach out for support if you or someone you know is having trouble coping:... Lifeline 13 11 14 Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 Lived Experience Telephone Support Service 1800 013 755 #ruok #ruokday #ruokayday #worldsuicidepreventionday #theresmoretosayafterruok Posting this beautiful flag decorated at the Festival of Now by Jai Grant

09.01.2022 Follow Festival of Now and Festival of Now 2020 for #FoNline updates!

09.01.2022 Laughing Yoga! #FoNline2020

08.01.2022 Are you community hub, centre, library or workplace keen to champion mental health this #MentalHealthWeek? We've made a resource to help you do just that! With tonnes of ideas for how you can get involved and engage your community, download the "Your Mental Health Week" PDF at this link: https://bit.ly/2YYGUzD... Posters and digital assets available! You can also contact our Mental Health Promotions Officer Anna at [email protected] #MHW2020 #EveryPersonEveryCommunity Community Centres SA Inc. Goodwood Community Services Inc Fullarton Park Community Centre City of Adelaide Community Centres Adelaide Hills Council Library Service Adelaide Hills Council Community Centres Marion Neighbourhood Centres Burnside Community Centres City of Marion Libraries The Junction Community Centre Bower Cottages Community Centre Camden Community Center Cheltenham Community Centre Chinese Welfare Services of SA Inc Findon Community Centre Fulham Community Centre Henley & Grange Community Centre Kilburn Community Centre Kura Yerlo Lefevre Community Stadium Nazareth Catholic Community Welcoming Centre Vietnamese Community in Australia - SA Chapter Inc West Lakes Community Centre Bagster Road Community Centre Burton Community Centre Elizabeth Community Connections Elizabeth Rise Community Centre Enfield Community Centre Gawler Community House Greenwith Community Centre Holden Hill Community Centre North East Community Assistance Project Inc - NECAP Reynella Medical Centre Jubilee Community Centre Lutheran Community Care SA/NT Marra Dreaming Midway Road Community House North East Community Assistance Project Inc - NECAP Pooraka Farm Community Centre Jack Young Centre Salisbury East Neighbourhood Centre Surrey Downs Community Centre The Mawson Centre The Paddocks Centre Baptist Care SA Diamond House Clubhouse Skylight Mental Health Carers SA HYPA

08.01.2022 Today is Wear it Purple day! We at the MHCSA are proud to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community by donning as much purple as we can find in our closets. Today is a reminder that everyone's identity is valid, everyone's mental health matters, and a colourful world is much more fun. KAREN Let's celebrate unconditional love and acceptance for all, not just on one day, but all days. We are all worthy!... LOUISE This is my Godson who I still remember as a gorgeous baby. Wearing purple is a reminder to both of us that growing up and finding yourself is not always an easy path to travel, but remember you are not alone. We all have a Fairy Godmother. SHANDY This is me in my purple at the sticks at Port Willunga. My sister Sue married her rock star wife Susie there in 2002 and its now my local beach. Eighteen years on Susie is in her third career as a doctor and Sue is building businesses on KI. I have 2 sisters instead of one I am blessed. Every day is purple for me and I wish it was for everyone. BEL I don't like purple. It is my least favourite colour in the world. I own nothing purple. But I love my LGBTIQA+ friends and I love my son's friends who have and are coming out - and that love outweighs my dislike of this colour. So here I am, Wearing it Purple in a borrowed jersey and taking it for the team in solidarity of all young people who are gender and sexually diverse. ANNA I'd be lost without my queer friends and community. I'll be standing up for acceptance always, and celebrating with great pride along the way... and with dancing Please note Geoff posing with a purple rosemary bush If you are LGBTIQA+, live in SA and need support, check out Uniting Communities's Bfriend: https://bit.ly/3b3LDFc Contact a headspace centre near you: https://bit.ly/2EDLX1f Or call the Lived Experience Telephone Support Service - Adelaide Metro: https://bit.ly/3luknob #WearItPurple #WearItPurpleDay

07.01.2022 "Something useful, something kind, and something you've been putting off."

07.01.2022 City of Adelaide have released their "Wellbeing Benefits of Culture" report. So great to see the City building research in this exciting space and leading by incorporating it into their strategic planning. You can read the report here: https://bit.ly/3l3UDNV

06.01.2022 "The best description of burnout I've heard came from a friend. Joshua Cahill says it's "the feeling of constantly rushing but never being around".

04.01.2022 A fascinating insight into what it's like hearing voices, accepting and learning from them, and embarking on a recovery journey.

02.01.2022 "Covid-19 has changed our world and certainly had a strong impact on carers. As this global health crisis developed, Carers SA has made welfare calls to thousands of carers, provided services to carers - and will continue to support carers into the future no matter what this future may bring." writes Cares SA Senior Engagement Manager, Marianne Lewis. https://bit.ly/2Ozek2g

02.01.2022 Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, check out PACE support groups from Centacare Catholic Family Services or call SA's Statewide Eating Disorder Service on (08) 8198 0800