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

Hobart Clinic Support Group (7th October)

The Hobart Clinic‘s next free families and friends support session is on “Caring for someone with Borderline Personality [...]
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Join us for Our Annual Forum

Families and friends of someone with mental ill health, are invited to join us at our annual forum. WHEN Wednesday 7th October (10.30 am – 3.30 [...]
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Online and Face-to-Face Safe Spaces

MHFFTas is pleased to launch its parallel programs of online and face-to-face peer support, called Safe Spaces. Safe Spaces are held online [...]
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Caring Voices Newsletter (September 2020)

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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 .