Mental Health First Aid Australia is committed to improving the mental health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia, and to equipping individuals and communities with the skills to provide culturally informed care to those...
Mental Health First Aid Australia recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians. Our formal reconciliation journey began in 2022, as we started to change our ways of working and move towards building a stronger and more unified...
Researchers at the University of Melbourne are proposing the introduction of a new field of research and intervention on mental health literacy for supporting children. Since Mental Health First Aid Australia®’s co-founder Tony Jorm first coined the term back in 1997,...
A survey of the Australia’s commercial fishing industry has revealed it is in the midst of a mental health crisis, with fishers experiencing mental health problems at double the rate of the average population. The survey, conducted by Deakin University and the...
The CEO of Mental Health First Aid Australia®, Shannon Anderson, has informed the Board of her intention to step down from the role. Since taking on the role in 2019, Shannon has led our organisation through a period of major transformation and growth. Much of this...
A course that teaches participants how to have conversations about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been found to be safe, acceptable and effective. In a recently published paper, researchers from Mental Health First Aid® Australia and the University of Melbourne’s...
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