Mental Health Families and Friends Tasmania

Carers of people affected by mental ill health

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OUR VISION

Families and friends of people affected by mental ill health are understood, respected, valued and supported to build their capacities and improve their quality of life.

2 Terry Street,
Glenorchy, 7010

OUR MISSION

To promote and improve the wellbeing of families and friends of people affected by mental ill health through support and education.

To provide systemic advocacy from a family and friends perspective drawing on lived experience to improve mental health services.

LATEST NEWS

Safe Space Forum (Nov. 19th)

Peer support for families, friends and carers. An invitation to friends, families and carers of people with mental ill health. Join us in a safe [...]
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MHFFTas Forum Presentations

Thank you to all who attended the forum and the reception at Government House as part of Mental Health Week and to celebrate 35 years of mental health [...]
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Mental Health Families and Friends Tasmania is:

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 .


We are not a crisis intervention service. If you need urgent help:



  • Call Emergency Services – Police, Fire, Ambulance 000
  • Go to your nearest hospital emergency service
  • Call Mental Health Triage Helpline - 1800 332 388
  • Call Life Line - 13 11 14
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Carers survey

Thank you for participating in the third of our three year surveys.

 

Your feedback, ideas and shared experiences help us to tell mental health service providers and governments what is important to you.

Mental Health Families and Friends Tasmania work with mental health bodies across the state to understand how to include friends, families and carers of the people they care for in their services.

 

Friends, families and carers are people who provide unpaid physical, practical or emotional support to people living with a mental illness.

Your information is confidential.

 

 

Take the survey here

 

 

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