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

Would you like to know more about being an empowered self-advocate for yourself and the person you support?

Would you like to attend one of the 10 workshops being held in late August and throughout September?

Are you a health professional interested in further resources and services across Tasmania? You have come to the right place.

Click on this link – it will take you to the self-advocacy toolkit landing page. It provides further information about the self-advocacy program, including the dates, venues, and booking links to the intrastate self-advocacy workshops.

The entire toolkit and workshops are free to access.

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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 .