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

NDIS Home and Living Consultation

NDIS are developing a new approach to Home and Living and want to give participants more choice and control over where and how they live. They also [...]
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The Hobart Clinic’s Carer Support Sessions

The role of meaningful occupation in recovery and how to support loved ones to explore or engage Susan Austin (Occupational Therapist) will lead [...]
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Housing Ends Homelessness; Children’s Homelessness Forum

Children’s Homelessness Forum Featuring the Commissioner for Children & Young People and representatives from the Tasmanian community sector, [...]
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SANE Topic Tuesday – Self Care for Carers

Self care Self care is a term that we speak about on the forums, so what does it mean? Self care is the activities that you do each day that promote [...]
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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 .