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

Mental Health First Aid Training

Would you like to learn how to safely, helpfully and confidently support and talk about mental health and mental illnesses? [...]
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We are pleased to introduce our online peer support sessions for families and friends who support a person with mental ill health. [...]
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Butterfly is offering a 5 week online workshop for families and friends helping a loved one with an eating disorder. [...]
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The primary organisation providing systemic advocacy for and with mental health families and friends in Tasmania.

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 .