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

Conversations with Mental Health Services

Please join in the next conversation on Wednesday 27th July 2022 from 10:00am to 11.30am Brett McDermott – Professor of Psychiatry, Statewide [...]
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One-on-One Support to Families & Friends

Mental Health Families and Friends are offering one on one support to families and friends who support someone living with mental ill health or [...]
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Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy – Lived Experience Focus Groups

The Department of Health is holding focus groups across the State for people with lived experience of suicidal distress and/or supporting someone [...]
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Self-Advocacy Toolkit and Workshop Program Launch

After 18 months of work, MHFFTas officially launched its self-advocacy program on 21 June 2022 at Moonah Arts Centre in Moonah. An intimate, yet [...]
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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 and alcohol and other drugs 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 and alcohol and other drug 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 .