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

We’re Hiring!

Position Vacant - Admin Officer Applications close Tuesday 19th April 2022 at 9:00 am. Salary and conditions: Salary and conditions are in [...]
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Do you engage with children 0-12? Burnie Communities for Children Forum and Workshops March – April 2022

mental health families and friends TAS are proud to promote upcoming forums and workshops for anyone who interacts with children 0-12, that are being [...]
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“Get Up Mum” A Justin Heazlewood Performance

Tassie’s creative triple-threat Justin Heazlewood (AKA The Bedroom Philosopher) writes, composes and performs his autobiographical work Get [...]
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Caring Voices Newsletter – March 2022

Read our March eNews In this edition we farewell our CEO Maxine, and welcome Glen O'Keefe into the role. You can register for our Safe Space Peer [...]
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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 .