MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA ARE RUNNING

FREE ONLINE SUPPORT GROUPS!

Mental Health Foundation Australia is making all of their support groups available online until further notice.

Once you register, closer to the support group date, the group facilitator will contact you with the link to join the meeting.

For further information:

email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

phone: 1300 643 287 

website: https://www.mhfa.org.au/CMS/online-support-groups

This Bendigo workshop is open to anyone who has been a consumer of mental health services.  The peer support team will be running this workshop to help consumer prepare their submissions.

Time:     11.00am - 1.00pm

Date:      Friday 28 June 2019

Venue:   Long Gully Community Centre (23-29 Havilah Road, Long Gully, VIC, 3550)

For further information and to RSVP your attendance, visit the website.  

Continuing to raise awareness of mental health within the Loddon community; the Loddon Healthy Minds Art Competition has been on again in 2020!!

This year the themes were

Open Section & Aged 14-18 years: ‘Stop Stigma’

Aged 9-14 years: ‘Living happy & healthy’

Aged under 9 years: ‘Kindness begins with me’ colouring poster

These art themes challenged entrants to explore why mental health is important to everyone, and looking at their own mental health.

This year we had four sections; Open, Upper secondary, Middle school and Junior.

 All 75 entries have now been collected and judging completed on 29 October.

Please note there were no Open section entries this year

And the winners are:

There are mental health and wellbeing services available in your community through the Flying Doctor Wellbeing program, which is offered by the Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria.

Flying Doctor Wellbeing provides free confidential mental health appointments with no need for a GP referral.  You are able to access 6 free sessions with a mental health clinician through a face-to-face meeting or via telehealth.

Judging for the 2019 Loddon Healthy Minds Network Art Competition has been completed.
A total of 21 entries were received for this year’s competition; entrants were challenged to complete an art piece using either of the two chosen items of;

'Mental health matters to us all'
OR

‘Mental health begins with me‘

The Loddon Healthy Minds Network are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Art Competition. A total of 34 entries were received this year, based on the themes “Stop Mental Health Stigma” and “Words For Wellbeing”.

This year also saw our first literary entry from Wedderburn College student Alexis Timu who wrote a great piece titled “Stand Up”.

And the winners are..........

Best In Show Anne-Maree Hansen
Best In Show (Schools) Sophie Perryman (Boort District School)

Open Section 1st Prize Anne-Maree Hansen
Open Section 2nd Prize Anne-Maree Hansen

Boort District School 1st Prize Rebecca Barsdell
Boort District School 2nd Prize Amy Malone

Pyramid Hill College 1st Prize Lizzie Newell
Pyramid Hill College 2nd Prize Isabelle Caspani

Wedderburn College 1st Prize Janet Launder
Wedderburn College 2nd Prize Genevieve Tonkin

Thank you to all the entrants who submitted artwork for this years competition, and congratulations to all the winners!!

We look forward to announcing the 2019 Art Competition theme in the new year!

Psychosocial Recovery Services

On Friday 23 February 2018, the Hon Jacinta Allan MP, Minister for Public Transport and Minister for Major Projects, Member for Bendigo East officially launched the carers video.

This workshop will help you recognise signs that someone may be considering suicide.

Monica Robinson from Boort Best in Show Winner

In 2017 The Loddon Healthy Minds Network held its annual art competition in an effort to raise awareness of mental health with the theme of “Mental Health – Share Your Journey”

Entrants were challenged to create a piece of artwork which shared their mental health journey so far.  This might be as someone who is/has experienced poor mental health and your recovery journey; it may be what you do to support good mental health, your experience with someone who has good or poor mental health, or any stigma you may have encountered on your mental health journey.