Mental Health Families and Friends Tasmania – Carers of people affected by mental ill health

DERWENT VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID COURSES

Would you like to learn how to safely, helpfully and confidently support and talk about mental health and mental illnesses? Or would you like to learn [...]
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SORELL/TASMAN MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID COURSES

Would you like to learn how to safely, helpfully and confidently support and talk about mental health and mental illnesses? Or would you like to learn [...]
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Caring Voices Newsletter (February 2021)

Read all about it ... in our latest newsletter including NDIS application support training and support groups for families and friends [...]
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Mental Health TasConnect

You are not alone – support for family and friends As part of our Connections program, we support the family and friends or our participants by [...]
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The primary organisation providing systemic advocacy for and with mental health families and friends in Tasmania.

We do this through:

Ensuring mental health families and friends have access to quality personal support, peer support and knowledge of available mental health services and families and friends support.
Providing training, education and information for mental health families and friends about the practical aspects of advocating for their care recipient and building their own capacity to continue to provide support.
Providing families and friends with relevant information on current policies in relation to mental health funding of services both locally and nationally and avenues to provide feedback on their implementation.
Ensuring mental health families and friends have input to research development and implementation.
Recruiting, training and supporting mental health families and friends to participate in our Families and Friends Representation Program which ensures their perspective is represented on Tasmania’s Mental Health Services committees, staff selection panels and consultation forums.
Supporting Statewide Mental Health Services to consult with and learn from mental health families and friends.
Representing the “Caring Voice” across Government and non-Government Mental Health Services in how to engage with mental health families and friends .