The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) is an interprofessional association of integrative clinicians who embrace a person-centered, team-based approach to health care. They provide transformational educational programs, connections to a global network of providers, and valuable resources and toolkits. The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) educates and trains clinicians in integrative health and medicine to assure exemplary care. The AIHM’s training incorporates research, emphasizes person-centered care and embraces global healing traditions. By combining science and compassion, we are transforming health care. 

The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine is dedicated to engaging a global community of health professionals and health seekers in innovative education, training, leadership, interprofessional collaboration, research, and advocacy that embraces all global healing traditions, to promote the creation of health and the delivery of evidence-informed comprehensive, affordable, sustainable person-centered care. The core areas of focus of the Academy are:

• Membership for individuals and organizations
• Chapters
• E-Learning
• Conferences
• Publications and
• The Interprofessional Fellowship Program: a program for clinicians who want to become leaders in integrative health and medicine.

   

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Address: 6919 La Jolla Blvd. La Jolla, California

Email: info@aihm.org

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ASHA International's is a non-profit organization based in USA that promotes personal, organizational, and community wellness through mental health education, training, and support.

• Mental Health Education: programs in organizations, workplaces or communities through a wide array of keynotes, panel presentations, films and documentary screenings to promote mental health awareness, hope and holistic wellness. 
• Wellness Workshops: a wide array of programs to enhance your mental health and holistic wellness. 
• Cultural Competence Training: a wide array of keynotes, panel presentations, films and documentary screenings to enhance cultural competence among healthcare providers 
• Speakers Bureau

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Postal Address: P.O. Box 91232 Portland, OR 97291

Email: info@myasha.org

Call +1 9713407190

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Batyr is an organisation that focuses on preventative education in the area of youth mental health. Batyr provides programs that train young people to speak about their personal experience with mental ill health and start a conversation in their community. Batyr takes these speakers into schools, universities and corporate arenas to continue this conversation around mental health. The programs engage, educate and empower the audience to learn from the experiences of others and to reach out to the great services around them.From training young people to share their lived experience of mental ill health, to running dynamic programs in schools and universities, Batyr aims to smash the stigma surrounding mental health and encourage young people to reach out for help when they need it.

• batyr@school programs aim to remove the stigma around mental health and engage, educate and empower young people to reach out for help when they need it. The carefully researched programs are unique in that trained young speakers share their lived experiences with mental ill health, alongside trained facilitators who deliver vital educational information in a fun, safe and engaging way.

• 60 – 90min batyr@school program: a program designed to be both informative and fun for students (and teachers alike) in which oung, relatable speakers and facilitators engage the students with their stories of hope, resilience and courage. The program educates students on the support networks and services available to them (including your school’s services), and empowers them to reach out for help when needed.

• Half day and Full day batyr@school program: an engaging and fun program that provides opportunities for students to further engage with mental health and wellbeing as well as connect with community role models and services. These programs engages the students in activities focused on wellbeing, and how students can implement mental health initiatives in their own school.

• batyr@school parent forums: are programs designed to provide a range of perspectives on the topic of mental health and wellbeing for young people from a variety of experts and speakers. Through a lived experience speaker and a Q&A session, parents will walk away with a greater understanding of mental health and how they can provide support to their teen, as well as what services are available to them.

• batyr@school chapters: are chapeters that equip students with the resources and tools to achieve these goals and continuing to develop a positive culture within the school around mental health and wellbeing.

• batyr@school Teacher Professional Development: accredited interactive and collaborative workshop that equips teachers with the knowledge and skills to look out for the wellbeing of their students. Teachers hear from a trained lived experience speaker, who shares their story of mental ill health. The program looks at batyr’s ‘5 key mental health support strategies’ and implements these in case studies of hypothetical situations that teachers may encounter with their students.

• batyr@uni programs offer a unique form of education that hopes to see a happier, healthier generation of young people by removing the stigma around mental health and empowering young people to reach out for help when they need it. batyr@uni programs act as a bridge between students and avenues of help, assisting them to take that first and crucial step of getting help. batyr speakers share their personal stories of difficult times, educating the students about the first hand benefits of reaching out, the avenues which are available to them both on and off campus, and how best to help themselves or someone else facing similar situations. Long-term batyr@uni partnerships currently exist at the University of Technology, Australian National University, The University of South Australia, University of New England and the University of Sydney. An important aspect of the partnership includes, a student led chapter who plan and implement events and initiatives designed to help reduce mental health stigma and increase help seeking on campus.

• Being Herd: is a free two day workshop that empowers young people to give a voice to their story of mental ill health.

• One Sock One Goal (1S1G) is a batyr campaign designed for Schools, Uni’s, sporting teams and the community in which teams and individuals are encouraged to wear the bright socks to start positive conversations around mental health, whilst visually promoting their willingness to smash the stigma. By wearing the socks you will be contributing to a movement of young people who are creating positive conversations around mental health and wellbeing.

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• Batyr Blue Tie Ball: a party that includes a two course meal, entertainment, drinks, dancing and all round good times, the funds raised from the event will help batyr continue to run preventative education programs all across Australia.

• The White Elephant Winter Ball is a party held in Tamworth every July in memory of Scotty Campbell who lost his battle with depression and anxiety in 2013 and aims to create awareness of mental health in the community and raise funds for batyr.

• Civic2Surf: is a fun run from from Canberra to Bondi Beach to raise awareness for youth mental health.

• Most of the Coast (MOTC): a run that began at Palm Beach and continued along the entire coastline until they reached Bondi Beach, where they finished alongside ANU’s Civic2Surf runners.

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Address: Suite 102, 74 Pitt Street Sydney 2000 Read more at http://www.batyr.com.au/#ccWibiXCxwkDoYJ6.99

Email: hello@batyr.com.au

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Be You is the national mental health and wellbeing initiative for learning communities in Australia. The free, evidence-informed tools and resources can be used in your everyday practice. They are designed to fit within your early learning service’s or school’s existing framework.
 

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The BlackDog Institute provide evidence-informed programs, consultancy, resources and clinical services for everyone including workers, students, health professionals and bodies, and entire communities.

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Blueprint for Learning is New Zealand's leading provider of learning and development for people working in the mental health and social service sectors. Blueprint aims enhance the wellbeing of people and communities through inspirational learning. Thir focus is about bringing learning to life and creating a fun, vibrant atmosphere where all can flourish and grow. Blueprint is also a recognised hub of sector expertise, undertaking workforce research and evaluation projects for both government and non-government agencies. Blueprint's comprehensive range of mental health and social service sector training includes:

• Short courses
• Let's Get Real Training
• MH101 mental health learning
• National Certificate in Mental Health and Addiction Support
• Leadership programmes

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Address: Level 2, Building B 8 Nugent Street Grafton Auckland 1023 New Zealand

Postal Address: PO Box 108-244 Symonds Street, Auckland 1150

Email: info@blueprint.co.nz

Call 0800 4 258377468

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The Centre For Mental Health Education And Research Ltd are undertaking a research study into suicide prevention. They held a Masterclass event during the year with the aim to establish, encourage and promote mental health education and training.

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Address: 300 Warrigal Rd Glen Iris VIC, 3146

Country: Australia

Email: pselar@delmonthospital.com.au

Call 03 9805 7389

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The Centre for Mental Health Learning (CMHL) is the central agency for public mental health workforce development in Victoria. CMHL is the centrepiece for mental health learning in Victoria; leading and driving innovation that strengthens and sustains a flexible, curious, knowledgeable and recovery-focused workforce.

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Address: Level 4 / Jane Bell House 10 Wreckyn St North Melbourne 3051

Country: Australia

Email: contact@cmhl.org.au

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The Centre of Mental Health Education (CMHE) was established in 1999 to provide mental health professionals in Australia with access to international and local training in effective therapeutic interventions. CMHE previously hosted Babette Rothschild (2014-2018) and Marsha Linehan's Senior Trainers from Behavioral Tech LCC (2003-2008) and will be hosting Dr. Sophie Rushbrook (Senior Trainer, Radically Open Ltd) in 2023.

• Australian DBT Institute

• CMHE Academy

• Radically Open

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CMHE Academy support mental health professionals obtain the training and CPD hours needed as a busy health care providers, to deliver the best evidence-informed approaches and get back to the work you do!

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Address: 144 Martin St Brighton VIC 3186

Country: Australia

Email: info@cmheacademy.com

Call +61 3 7065 0789

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CCD Researchers engage with young people and sparking interest in cognitive science and research as a career path. The Centre offers opportunities for students to get involved via the High School Work Experience Program, classroom visits, careers fairs, National Science Week activities and student visits to the Centre.

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High School Work Experience Program at the CCD offers a High School Work Experience program. It is suitable for students in years 10, 11 and 12, during which students have the opportunity to be immersed in a range of research training activities and gain an idea about what it's like to choose a career path in research. Students will have the opportunity to be immersed in a range of research training activities and gain an idea about what it's like to choose a career path in research. Activities may include:

• Observation of research projects
• Attendance at lab meetings and reading groups
• Reading and discussion of accessible research papers
• Shadowing of a variety of researchers and other staff members to learn about their work
• Sampling of an online course about delusions and disorders of the mind
• Design and execution of a mini research project
• Presenting a summary of learning and/or research project findings to a small group

The Centre offers placements to small groups of students during specified weeks each year to facilitate mini research project design opportunities and simulate the experience of working with a research team, in which students have the opportunity to directly experience some research project activities if interested. Availability of specific activities may vary depending on the timing of the student visit.

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The Integrated Mental Health University (IMHU) is a leading resource for integrative mental healthcare The Integrated Mental Health University trains Spiritual Emergence Coaches®, people that have has been trained by IMHU to recognize psycho-spiritual phenomena and support those who are challenged by the ups and downs these unusual phenomena can create such as psychic opening, near-death experience, kundalini awakening, and shamanic journey.  Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU) has certified  95 Spiritual Emergence Coaches®  from 17 countries who have completed the Spiritual Emergence Certification Program, 

SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE COACHES

• Bellingen: Susan Rose Priest - Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist - susanpriest426@gmail.com
• Brisbane: Jaya Jones - Counsellor/Yoga Teacher - subscriptions@jayajones.com - www.JayaJones.com
• Cairns: Teresa Barrett, RN - Psychotherapist - teresabarrett@bigpond.com
• Perth: Susan Morrison, MA - Professional Holistic Counsellor/Psychotherapist - suzanmorrison@bigpond.com
• Perth: Louise Mustard - Transpersonal Art Therapist - louisemustard@gmail.com
• Perth: Iris Whitelock - Peer Support/Transpersonal Art Therapist - iris@crossburn.com.au  
• Perth: Sohalia Fitzgerald - Mental Health Nurse - deepeningthelove@gmail.com
• Adelaide: Barbara Simpson - Peer Support/Hypnotherapist/Energy Worker - barbara@thehealingcoach.com.au, www.thehealingcoach.com.au
• Edmonton, Alberta: Fola Vickers, BA - Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing, Shamanic Practitioner, & Integration Therapist - deepmindsquared@gmail.com - www.deepmindsquared.com
• Vancouver, BC: Ariadne Patsiopoulos, MA - RCC CCC - ariadnewellness@gmail.com
• Ireland: Niamh Moran, Mental Health RN - neevym1@gmail.com
• Israel: Jessica Nathanson - peer support group facilitator - jessicaevenathanson@gmail.com - www.thegloriousbothand.com
• Norway: Susan Klein-Holmen - Peer Support Group Facilitator - skholmen@gmail.com - www.yogasusan.com
• Netherlands: Dorien Knight - Licensed Social Worker - dorien@thekokon.nl - http://thekokon.nl/Info-in-English/
• Russia: Irina Peresetskaya, MS - Psychologist - irinapereseckaa@gmail.com - http://pi.appme.ru/
• Switzerland: Celine Guerin, PhD - Neuroscientist - dr.guerin@conscience21.ch, www.conscience21.
• Kent:  Dr Tracy King - Clinical Psychologist - Drtracycoaching@hummingbirdhealthandhealing.com, www.hummingbirdhealthandhealing.com
• Liverpool: Helen Allmark, Mental Health RMN - h.allmark@tutanota.com
• London: Janine Wunsche - Peer Support Group Facilitator - janine.wunsche@gmail.com
• North Derbyshire/South Yorkshire: Mike Rush - Hypno-psychotherapist - mike@talkaboutspiritualcrisis.uk - www.talkaboutspiritualcrisis.uk
• Phoenix: Marikka Malm - Peer Support - marikkamalm@gmail.com,  
• Berkeley: Michelle Hobart - Associate Marriage and Family Therapist - michelleannehobart.com 0 michelle.a.hobart@gmail.com.
• Los Angeles: Colette St. Clair - Life Coach/Peer Support - Colette.St.Clair@icloud.com
• Los Angeles: Joanne Tortorici Luna, PhD - licensed Psychologist - drluna@heartandsoulpsychology.com - heartandsoulintegrativepsychology.com/   
• Monterey: Dida Kutz, Peer Support - marinaclk@pm.me.  Certified death doula, meditation teacher, nutrition coach.
• San Bernadino: Crystal Mueller, PhD - licensed Psychologist - Mysacredgeometry@gmail.com
• San Diego: Allison Rees - spiritual life coach - depthmystique@gmail.com,   Allison’s interests lie in holding space and offering creative expression to those who seek integration of altered states of consciousness.
• Redding:  Tyrene Siadous, MA -  ty@reddingtherapist.com,  Reddingtherapist.comWorks with those who are highly sensitive to the energies around them, who are undergoing a spiritual awakening and/or who need support as they integrate into higher states of being.  Works compassionately with clients at a core level.
• Colorado: Elisabeth W. Lawaczeck - Health and Life Coach - beetrueyou@outlook.com - www.beetrueyou.com
• Florida: Kathy Portiera - Spiritual Life Coach - sacred.doorway@gmail.com - www.Sacreddoorway.com.
• Massachusetts: Allen Howell, LMHC - Trauma Specialist, Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator - abhwll@gmail.com
• Minnesota: Linda Scherer, LICSW - BrainSpotting Therapist - newdaycouns@gmail.com - newdaycouns.com,
• Princeton:  Kyle Buller, MA -  settingsunwellness@gmail.com, Integration of intense spiritual experiences coming from psychedelic/ plant medicines or arising spontaneously
• Asheville: Eddie LeShure - discover@amindfulemergence.com - amindfulemergence.com. Specializing in trauma-informed, mindfulness, movement and breathing practices for integrating spiritually-transformative experiences and stabilizing recovery from addictive behavior.
• Ashland Area: Jordan M. Blacktop, Ph.D., Coach - Educator, Scientist - jordan.blacktop@solscience.org - solscience.org
• Pennsylvania: Dianne Seaman Poitier - Peer Support/Past Life Therapist/Astrologer - 27sunyata@gmail.com
• Dallas: Katie T. Larson, PhD - Katie@GrowthQuests.com - https://www.growthquests.com/, Dr. Larson specializes in Personal Growth and Development for Highly Sensitive People and Empaths through hypnotherapy. She helps clients explore and integrate Past Life Regressions, Life-between-Lives, and Spiritual journeywork.
• Burlington area:  Lauren Brownell - Life Coach/peer support, sagelotuslc@gmail.com - https://www.sage-lotus.com 
• White River Jct area: Emma Bragdon, PhD - Executive Director of IMHU.org - EB@IMHU.org, EmmaBragdon.com
• Seattle Area: Josh Beil - Peer Support -  jhbeil@gmail.com,(website coming soon).

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Address: 8 Clough Ave Windsor, VT 05089

Country: United States of America

Email: info@imhu.org

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The International Mental Health Learning, Development and Training School aims to address the need and help to transform mental health services and practices across the world. The aims and objectives of the School are to:

• Assist Mental Health providers in the transformation of their services and practices
• Help organisations to develop a Whole Person, Whole Life-Whole System Strategy
• Increase the knowledge of mental health workers in the social determinants of mental health
• Introduce recovery and discovery tools and instruments
• Run regular webinars 
• Online Events

COALITION PARTNERS

• International Mental Health Collaborating Network
• World Federation for Mental Health
• World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation
• Mental Health Europe
• European Community Based Mental Health Service Providers Network (EUCOMS)
• Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN)
• Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI)
• Italian Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology (SIEP)
• Transforming Australia’s Mental Health Service System, Incorporated

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Just a Thought offers free cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) courses to all New Zealanders.

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Email: hello@justathought.co.nz

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Living Life To The Full are courses that communicates an effective life skills program that is widely used across the UK, in the EU and in North America. It is written by a doctor in the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach.  Each course offers free modules including worksheets to print off and use and linked books to read.

• Living Life to the Full – For low mood and stress
• Living Life to the Full for Older Adults aged 65+
• Living Life to the Full with God – For those who attend church
• Living Life to the Full for Farming Communities
• Living Life to the Full for those with Chronic Pain
• Living Life to the Full for those with Diabetes
• Reclaim Your Life – For those living with long-term illness
• Fix Your Drinking in 2 Days
• Enjoy Your Bump – For expectant mothers
• Enjoy Your Baby
• Enjoy Your Infant
• Dental Anxiety support for teenagers
• Support for parents of children who have dental anxiety

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Address: Five Areas Ltd Titan Enterprise Business Centre 1 Aurora Avenue Clydebank G81 1BF

Country: United Kingdom

Email: office@llttf.com

Call 01360 661 078

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Man Anchor is a grassroots mental health and well-being movement that provides mental health education workshops for businesses, schools, and community groups around Australia. We aim to promote a better understanding of mental health issues and how to deal with them.
We strive to create opportunities for discussion, education, and action on mental health issues that affect people every day.

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Address: Collaroy Beach NSW

Country: Australia

Email: info@mananchor.com.au

Call 0405 420 413

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Mental Health Academy is Australia’s leading mental health learning community. They work closely with practitioners, researchers, industry associations and leading educational institutions globally to bring you truly world-class, relevant training. As an MHA member, you’ll enjoy unrestricted access to 750+ hours of learning and other unique benefits.

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Address: 43 Baxter Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Country: Australia

Call 07 2113 3696

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Mental Health Academy (MHA) is a leading provider of online professional development (CPD) education for mental health professionals. Mental Health Academy helps mental and allied health professionals develop clinical skills, fulfill CPD obligations, and connect with global experts, while supporting social causes around the world.

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Address: 43 Baxter Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Country: Australia

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The Mental Health CPE Centre provide Introductory Clinical Pastoral Education for Chaplaincy and pastoral care teams throughout the State including at St Leonards for the Buddhist Council of NSW, at Waverley for the Jewish Council, and at Auburn for the Islamic Scientific and Research Academy. The Introductory programs have led to many pastors from those areas proceeding to Basic (Foundational) CPE Units at Rozelle, Macquarie, Hornsby, Lakemba, Cumberland and Auburn, as well as on Zoom specifically to accommodate remote and interstate students.

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Country: Australia

Postal Address: PO Box 469 Beecroft NSW 2119

Email: Rosemarie.Say@health.nsw.gov.au

Call 0420 359 097

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MHERC is a leading provider of education and professional development in mental health and addictions.

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The Mental Health Education Program program delivers free mental health education workshops to primary* and secondary school communities across Australia.

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Email: MHEP@headspace.org.au

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The Mental Health Education Resource Centre is a province wide resource centre that provides information, education, and mental health resources for all Manitobans. MHERC offers free access to mental health fact sheets, wellness tips, podcasts, presentations, video series, workshops and courses. MHERC houses both on-site and e-Library collections of books and other reading materials.

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Address: 100-4 Fort Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1C4

Country: United States of America

Email: info@mherc.mb.ca

Call +1 204-942-6568

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Mental Health in Higher Education (MHHE) aims to increase networking and the sharing of approaches to learning and teaching about mental health and distress - across the disciplines in higher education. MHHE is open to educators (including service user and carer educators), practice mentors, students, practitioners, educational researchers and all with an interest in enhancing learning and teaching about mental health.

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MIEACT promotes the personal stories of volunteers with lived experiences of mental illness to educate the community, reduce stigma and discrimination, increase knowledge and awareness, and encourage positive health choices. MIEACT gives workplaces and the broader community an understanding of the collective impact that a MIEACT training program, using direct positive contact, can bring to your workplace or staff group. MIACT has a number of programs including:

• School Education Program (Year 9, 10, 11,12): is a curriculum linked school education program with volunteer educator teams that run sessions with over two thirds of government and non-government high schools and colleges in the ACT. Volunteers talk about living with and recovering from mental illness and provide accurate information about mental health to students and teachers.

• Stress Better: is a program for young adults aiming to help young adults manage stress and anxiety in regional NSW & ACT. It uses a unique method of delivery using direct positive contact to break down self-stigma that is linked to help seeking and acknowledgment of health problems.

• Casting Light: a script resource for drama students specifically designed for teachers. It provides a complete package for educators looking to explore mental health issues in the Drama or English classroom and other youth-focused settings. 

• Community Awareness Program: is a program run by key volunteer educators to share real-life experiences of mental health and recovery in non-triggering ways to ensure the safety of participants and your staff. Volunteers promote understanding of what can be happening for a person who is experiencing mental illness, and what factors contributed to help seeking and recovery. The Community Awareness Programs are for government agencies and services, tertiary education providers, businesses, service providers and community organisations; and aim to increase knowledge and understanding of people with mental illness in the workplace.  

• Body Image Education (Any Body’s Cool) is a positive body image program for girls in years 7 & 8 providing personal stories of local young people. The program aims to help young people and teachers become positive body image role models.

• MIEACT’s Do NO Harm - Sharing Stories Safely (DNHSSS) framework supports storytellers to share lived experience in a safe and positive way; enriching people stories allowing the authenticity and the power of the story shine through, whilst not losing the meaning because of a painful or grief laden moment. MIEACT’s DNHSSS helps to keep audiences engaged and protects them from ‘trauma overload’; enrich  peoples stories by helping it to be communicated effectively; hold audience’s attention when talking about personal experiences; ensure the message is heard; leave listeners with helpful, useful and hopeful information; keep storytellers safe and not overburdened by their sharing; and keep vulnerable audiences safe. MIEACT’s Do NO Harm - Sharing Stories Safely (DNHSSS) workshops are designed in consultation with organisations, and are tailored to help staff, representatives and volunteers to share their lived experience in a way that is safe for them and won’t distress others. DNHSS helps keep the storyteller safe and not become diminished by the experience of sharing personal information. 

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Program is a first step for organisations wanting to become a trauma-informed workplace. The program is valuable for frontline staff and people who regularly liaise with the broader community. It raises awareness as well as providing practical tools to help understand PTSD. The workshop provides participants with up-to-date information on trauma, information on potentially traumatic events that may lead to trauma illness, current best practice therapy, how to assist someone to get effective therapy and how to support a person to ensure therapeutic intervention is working for them. MIEACT’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Program aims to reduce stigma associated with PTSD and trauma related illness; explore the impacts of PTSD on a person; educate about supportive behaviours; and encourage help-seeking behaviour.

• Find help for young people in Canberra: local information about services and programs for young people experiencing mental illness was made by combining information about local youth services with the ideas, needs and real stories of young people.

• Find help for adults in Canberra: a quick online guide to mental health services, recovery programs, information and e-mental health portals available for people in the ACT.

   

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Postal Address: PO Box 4074 Ainslie ACT 2602

Email: jacqui@mieact.org.au

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MindBlossom is on a mission to empower people’s mental wellbeing through mental health education and community engagement. We utilize evidence-based and data-driven methods to help people understand themselves and others in ways that are proven to enhance mental health and prevent mental illness. While we work with companies, schools, and other institutions, MindBlossom’s overarching cause is to help develop and implement free of cost mental health education programs in underserved communities. All profits are reinvested in this cause.

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Mental Health Australia is undertaking a project to build the capacity of people with a psychosocial disability, their carers and service providers to engage with the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This includes the:

• Consumer and carer capacity building: a number of activities to build mental health consumer and carer capacity to engage with the NDIS including NDIS peer education, establishment of the NDIS Mental Health Consumer and Carer Advisory Group, providing advice on supported decision making, psychosocial disability and the NDIS and issues mental health carers face in accessing the NDIS. 
• Service provider capacity building: engagement of relevant experts to deliver training and/or resources to help mental health service providers operate in the NDIS environment.
• Sector Capacity Building: activities to build the capacity of the mental health sector to engage with the NDIS including a paper scoping the impact of the NDIS on the mental health workforce, a project describing the range of NDIS supports that people with psychosocial disability may wish to purchase under the NDIS and making recommendations about where new NDIS support items may be needed.
• Project Advisory Group: a group drawing on the expertise of the mental health sector (including mental health consumers and carers) to deliver NDIS project outcomes.
• Mental Health Australia NDIS Community of Interest: people consulted on an as needs basis to provide input to advice to Mental Health Australia, the NDIA and DSS on key NDIS issues affecting mental health stakeholders.
• Supported Decision Making Working Group: provides advice on implementation of specific recommendations on supported decision making, psychosocial disability and the NDIS.
• Newsletter: regular NDIS Mental Health Network updates. 

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The OPDI Peer Support Core Essentials™ Program is a basic skills training for people who have recovered their own mental health to the point of being ready to support others on their recovery journey. It was developed through a thorough consultative process with their members and others, and can be made available on a cost recovery basis whenever there is a critical mass of learners and an OPDI licensed trainer available.

• OPDI Peer Support Core Essentials™ Program involves five full days face-to-face in the classroom with two trainers in which there are many individual exercises, group exercises and role plays in class time, and daily written reflections assigned as homework. Prior to classroom training, a required introductory module is delivered via one webinar by OPDI staff. Then, some content from other modules is introduced in subsequent webinars with trainers. Homework (information gathering) is assigned to be brought for use in class. Participants are evaluated by the trainers, and can earn Level 1 or 1R recognition document. Level 1 means the person successfully completed the classroom training. Level 1R means the trainer recommends them to continue on and do an internship in order to earn their Level 2, or “OPDI Certified Peer Supporter”.
• Diabetes and Mental Health Peer Support Project: a two-day training using the same consultative approach as the Core Essentials program used, and leveraging from trainers that OPDI already has in place. Seven of our first ten Core Essentials trainers were trained to deliver the diabetes training, and in total 80 peer supporters across Ontario to date were trained to provide diabetes support to their peers.

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The Peer Ontario Learning and Recovery Institute is open to clients and participants to provide learning and discovery opportunities. Their courses focus on mental wellness and rediscovering hope and meaning. This complements professional assessment and treatment by helping individuals to understand thei

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Address: 2300 Yonge St suite 1600 unit 17, Toronto, ON M4P 1E4

Country: Canada

Call 416-486-8046

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Person First Solutions provide mental health training, consultancy and clinical services within a wide variety of mental health settings, for charitable organisations, health education establishments, within the public or private sector, and many business environments.  They are unique providers of courses and bespoke training, clinical and consultancy services which offer innovative and specialised solutions to mental health issues, underpinned by the latest research evidence, best practice guidelines and the experiences of people living with mental illness.

Our Person First philosophy considers the Person in their own relational contexts in order to validate and promote visibility as a Person: a member of a community, a father, a mother, a sister, a brother.  The approach seeks to understand and appreciate a Person by focussing on individual strengths and the common goals of humanity in order to achieve recovery and rehabilitation; rather than use impersonal, pejorative and limiting concepts such as: patient, schizophrenia and personality disorder. The Whole Person is greater than any sum of concepts that label, mislead, stigmatise, cause distress or segregate the Person from his or her own context and the support therein.

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• Supported Homes
• Clinical Services
• Resources
• Blog

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Address: 547 Manchester Road, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 2QJ

Email: personfirstsolutions.inquiries@gmx.com

Call 07843046558

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The Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning (Learning Centre) is a Queensland Health based training provider offering a range of core mental health, alcohol and other drugs education programs for mental health professionals.

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Address: The Park - Centre for Mental Health Anderson House Corner Ellerton Drive and Court Road Wacol, Brisbane 4076

Country: Australia

Postal Address: Locked Bag 500 Archerfield, Queensland, 4108

Email: QCMHLTraining@health.qld.gov.au

Call 0436 613 469

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• Postdoctoral Fellows

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CCD Researchers talk to students and answer questions about what it's like to be a researcher or to share their specific expertise. Their scientists regularly engage with schools by:

• Offering expert input for school assignments 
• Hosting student groups visiting the Centre for demonstrations and tours
• Visiting classrooms (either in person or by video conference)
• Participating in careers fairs and National Science Week activities
• Demonstration of EEG with CCD's Emotiv Headset

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CCRN facilitates post-graduate research on severe mental disorders and promote the uptake and implementation of research and evaluation in the mental health workforce. Their goal aims to grow recognition that ‘research active health services provide higher quality care’. Post-graduate training in mental health research provides you with a host of skills and a depth of knowledge that link to a broad range of career paths. Graduates may:

• Go on to professional clinical roles within local mental health services
• Pursue careers in academia and
• Undertake further post-doctoral training in basic or applied research - often interstate or overseas.
• Use their research training with us to further develop their professional practice.
• Take their career in other directions, including health service development and policy-related roles.

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Te Rau Matatini is New Zealand's Centre for Māori Health, Māori Workforce Development and Excellence. They provide a strategic focus that is underpinned by Māori development principles and informed by best practice; leadership, education, evidence base, clinical and cultural capability and capacity building strategies for the advancement of health and wellbeing for our people to achieve Pae Ora. 

Te Rau Matatini is committed to significantly improving the health of Māori that will contribute to increased entire wellbeing for individuals, whānau and their communities by being the lead agency to accelerate the development of a workforce that can implement Pae Ora - the Māori Health Strategy and Strengthen the Māori health workforce in order to decrease levels of sickness and increase Māori wellbeing; to determine contemporary health needs; to contribute across the full spectrum of the Mauri noho (sickness) and Mauri Ora (wellness) continuum; to better align the health with wider Māori aspirations; and to lead collaborations with community leaders, whānau, other services and other sectors in order to prevent poor health and to promote wellness.  

Waka Hourua supports Māori whānau, hapÅ«, iwi, Pasifika families and communities to develop and enhance their capacity and capability to prevent suicide and to respond safely and effectively when and if suicide occurs. Waka Hourua is a partnership between Te Rau Matatini and national Pasifika non-government organisation, Le Va. Waka Hourua has five key components. 

• National Leadership: this is achieved by the National Leadership Group, Pasifika and Māori leaders who monitor the performance of the programme and provide a distinctive and informed voice for Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention. â€‹
• Pasifika Community Suicide Prevention: the national coordination centre for Pasifika Community Suicide Prevention.​
• Māori Community Suicide Prevention
• Te Rau Matatini is the national coordination centre for Māori Community Suicide Prevention.
• Community Fund: a one-off contestable fund was provided to Māori and Pasifika families, whānau, hapÅ«, iwi and communities to establish community based suicide prevention initiatives and effective community based responses when suicide has occurred. 
• A Strategic Research Agenda: a one-off funding pool that was allocated in April 2014 to contribute to the evidence base of what works for Māori and Pasifika. 

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100 Maori Leaders

100 Maori Leaders

100 Māori Leaders is part of the Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation, Leadership strategy... and launched November 2017.

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Addiction

Addiction

Te Rau Matatini as a leader in the sector leads the strategy with a dedicated addiction programme of action aimed at growing whānau centred workforces across sectors of Māori and non-Māori, able to integrate cultural, social and clinical elements into day to day practice.

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Focus on Maori Nursing

Focus on Maori Nursing

Nursing in Te Ao Māori is focussed on the person and their whānau . In turn, this cultivates the connection of their nursing care with that of Māori cultural values and principles such as manaakitanga and whanaungatanga. The double binding of clinical and cultural aspects of nursing is challenging especially within non-Māori institutions where racism exists.  This impedes on Māori nursing potential, by not recognising the Māori models of care they practice from.

Te Rau Matatini recognises the influence whānau have upon Māori who choose to become registered nurses, and subsequently underpins the reasons Māori nurses contribute so greatly to the wellbeing of their people. It is through our message “Every whānau should have a Māori Nurse”, that we will see a paradigm shift occur with whānau, hapÅ« and Iwi to help further lift the gains of Māori health workforce development strategies.  This in turn will assist to increase the number of Māori nurses being available for all whānau across the health and disability sector.

 

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Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation Strategy

Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation Strategy

The Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation (Māori Leadership in Health) was the birth place of the inaugural scholarships programme. The Henry Rongomau Bennett Memorial Scholarship Programme was established by the Health Funding Authority in 2001 with the aim of increasing the level of clinical leadership within the mental health sector.

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Maori Mental Health

Maori Mental Health

Te Rau Matatini is committed to growing, developing and advancing a workforce that can take MaÌ„ori health to new heights.  Tomorrow’s Māori health workforce will be ready to alleviate mental distress and will be equally attuned to the prevention of poor health and the promotion of wellbeing.

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Māori Health Workforce Development

Māori Health Workforce Development

Māori​ aims to improve the understanding and knowledge about the Māori Health Workforce by:

• Promoting entry to the workforce
• Developing and advancing the workforce
• Developing career pathways
• Promoting innovation, and aligning health education and training with Māori, health and social needs
• Implementing agenda conducive to attaining Māori aspirations and health goals
• Improving equitable deployment of Māori health and social service workforces across New Zealand.

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Pae Ora

Pae Ora

Pae ora is the Governments vision for Māori health.  It provides a platform for Māori to live with good health and wellbeing in an environment that  supports a good quality of life.  Pae ora is holistic and includes three interconneccted elements:

• Mauri Ora:  healthy individuals​
• Whānau Ora: healthy families
• Wai Ora:  healthy environments

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Rangatiratanga: Leadership

Rangatiratanga: Leadership

Rangatiratanga: Leaderships fosters Māori health leadership through the promotion and implementation of Leadership Programmes and Workforce Scholarships. Effective Māori health leadership is critical to setting the foundation for addressing health disparities and to achieve improved Māori health outcomes. Supporting this leadership involves empowering individuals, whānau and local Māori iwi leaders, as well as leaders at each level of the health and disability sector. Te Rau Matatini does this by offering Leadership Programmes. We also believe investment in building the capacity of the Māori health workforce is vital to foster effective Māori leadership and that's why we have Workforce Scholarships. Leadership programmes encompass:

• The management and delivery of Te Rau Matatini national programme with increased alignment to the goals health service development plans
• Providing input into key sector initiatives and developments
• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
• Delivering Māori leadership activities
• The administration of a number of Ministry of Health funded scholarships programmes to build the capacity, capability and leadership of Māori working in the mental health & addiction sectors
• Sector and community communications planning and dissemination
• Joint workforce centre programmes where Te Rau Matatini is the key health Māori specialist
• Advisory group contribution
• Research and evaluation
• Lead agent for engagement with Māori in the health sector
• A strategic voice for the National Māori recruitment and retention programme​
• Rangatahi youth leadership.

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Reo motu mō te huringa: National Voices for Change

Reo motu mō te huringa: National Voices for Change

Te Rau Matatini is a national group to represent Māori with lived experience of mental illness and mental health services. Following a series of national hui with Māori, Te Huarahi o te Kete Pounamu was formed to provide an independent vehicle, a structured partnership between Māori with lived experience of mental illness and mental health services, stakeholders and Te Rau Matatini to facilitate meaningful discussions in the pursuit of optimum health outcomes for Māori. The purpose of Te Huarahi o te Kete Pounamu is to provide Māori with lived experience of mental illness and mental health services a voice at a national level to improve health services and Māori health outcomes. 

 

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Te Hau Mārire: Addiction Workforce Strategic Framework (2015-2025) 

Te Hau Mārire: Addiction Workforce Strategic Framework (2015-2025) 

Te Hau Mārire: Addiction Workforce Strategic Framework (2015-2025) brought together the knowledge and experiences of Māori in the addiction treatment sector to provide guidance for the development of a competent workforce that will contribute to the minimisation of addiction-related harm and the achievement of whānau ora. Te Hau Mārire was written for the Ministry of Health on behalf of the addiction treatment sector and the community. It is particularly relevant for the mental health and addiction workforce centres as well as District Health Boards and those engaged in growing the capacity and capability of the workforces working with addiction- related harm. Te Rau Matatini as a leader in the sector leads the strategy with a dedicated addiction programme of action aimed at growing whānau centred workforces across sectors of Māori and non-Māori, able to integrate cultural, social and clinical elements into day to day practice.

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Toitu Accord: Māori Leadership for Health & Wellbeing

Toitu Accord: Māori Leadership for Health & Wellbeing

Toitu Accord: Māori Leadership for Health & Wellbeing has create ten markers have been identified as key touchstones for Māori leadership in health and wellbeing that reflect assertions that can be applied across the full spectrum of services, programmes and facilities, all aiming to improve Māori health or increase levels of wellness

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Whānau Ora & Whānau Centred Approach

Whānau Ora & Whānau Centred Approach

‘Whānau Ora’ and ‘whānau-centred approach’ refer to a culturally grounded, holistic approach focused on improving the wellbeing of whānau (families) and addressing individual needs within a whānau context. Whānau Ora and Whānau centred Initiatives will address these challenges, by placing whānau at the centre of service design, delivery and evaluation and empower whānau as a whole.

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Address: 233 Anglesea Street, Hamilton PO Box 104 Hamilton, 3240 New Zealand

Email: communications@teraumatatini.com

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The Centre and Discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy provides in-depth teaching about Child and Adolescent Mental Health to UWA medical students, and operates an intertional exchange program at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Teaching at The University of Western Australia can be done in relation to:

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• A five-week rotation for final year medical students.
• Postgraduate psychiatric education providing education for psychiatric trainees 
• Electives for overseas medical students

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Asociación de Capacitación e Investigación para la Salud Mental (Association for Training and Research for Mental Health) - ACISAM - is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with treatment and prevention of mental illness in El Salvador. The organisation uses locally-produced video production, as well as radio, to facilitate communication in rural areas about problems related to post-war traumas such as alcoholism, domestic violence, abuse, militaristic attitudes, and feelings of despair and hopelessness. The goal is to improve community self-esteem by using communication to foster a cohesive social identity and local participation in the development of the community.

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Country: El Salvador

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The Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning monitors emerging issues and supports the development of resources and programs for psychiatric education in the United States at every level. These efforts include premedical education, medical education, graduate medical education for residents and fellows in psychiatry (both basic education and subspecialty areas), psychiatry aspects of graduate medical education for other medical specialties, and postgraduate continuing medical education and lifelong learning. The council advises and assists APA’s Division of Education in the development, implementation, and promotion of its education programs and initiatives. Highlights of Responsibilities include:

• Oversee planning, coordinating, and evaluating all continuing medical education efforts and activities of APA.
• Identify emerging issues related to undergraduate medical education and assist in developing effective, appropriate psychiatric education for all future physicians.
• Support medical student recruitment into psychiatry.
• Provide recommendations regarding all aspects of graduate medical education in psychiatry including the development of the highest quality psychiatric training program planning, curriculum, and career development; and residency teaching and interface with medical student education, primary care, and other medical specialty education and post-residency fellowship training.
• Support APA’s response to proposed changes in the ACGME Essentials and the Special Requirements for Psychiatry and subspecialty programs.
• Work alongside other APA components and divisions on issues related to all levels of psychiatric education.

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The Freedom Center aims to centralize the needs of psychiatric survivors, people who experience extreme states/ mental illness/ trauma/ psychosis, people who are labelled with psychological diagnoses, and/or people struggling with psychological issues in their lives. In this context, it is important that we recognize the intersectionality of many forms of oppression in addressing issues of neurodiversity. This organization supports peer advocacy and support.

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The Mental Health Recovery Institute as a boutique educational resource for managers serious about creating immediate and sustainable changes for their organisation’s mental health. Their aim is to prepare managers to care for their team’s mental health.

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Address: Suite 1411, 3 Spring St. Sydney NSW 2000

Email: admin@mhri.com.au

Call +61 2 8935 3885

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TheMHS Learning Network Inc. is an international learning network for improving mental health services in Australia and New Zealand. TheMHS events bring together people from across Australia and New Zealand to stimulate debates that challenge the boundaries of present knowledge and ideas about mental health care and mental health systems. Their forums foster the exchange of ideas, focus discussion on workforce development and are a great place for networking and debate for professionals, consumers, families and carers, managers, researchers and policy-makers.

• TheMHS Conference: an annual conference held in a different city around Australia and New Zealand each year and attracts approximately 1,000 delegates annually.

• TheMHS Summer Forum is a two day educational program that examines the obstacles to good mental health services, highlights recent research, sets out the challenges, and focuses on policies, programs and directions for the future. Each year a different “hot” topic in mental health is chosen and speakers with expertise in the field are invited to present at the Forum.

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• Resource Library

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Postal Address: PO Box 192, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia

Email: info@themhs.org

Call +61 2 9810 8700

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BEING provides training and workshops for consumers, service providers, workplaces and policy makers, with a particular focus on consumer participation and systemic advocacy. This involves the development new and innovative training programs and resources for consumers. BEING is in a unique position to offer training that emphasises consumer perspectives and consumer participation. BEING’s existing training programs focus on:

• Systemic Advocacy for Consumers;
• Consumer Participation for Service Providers; and
• PeerZone peer-led workshops in mental health and addiction recovery.

If you would like to engage BEING for training in your organisation or service provider, please contact us on 

In the near future, BEING will be expanding its training capacity, so watch this space for new training programs and opportunities.

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BEING provides training and workshops for consumers, service providers, workplaces and policy makers, with a particular focus on consumer participation and systemic advocacy. This involves the development new and innovative training programs and resources for consumers that focus on: systemic advocacy for consumers; consumer participation for service providers; and PeerZone peer-led workshops in mental health and addiction recover. Training programs BEING is involved in include:

• Become a Leader Online: an initiative launched by My Choice Matters that provides an online leadership course for people with disability and their families that guides you through becoming a leader in your own life and in your community. 

• Consumer Advocacy Workshop. a 3 day workshop to improve consumer leader's understanding of consumer advocacy and representation. Over 3 full days, the workshop will cover advocacy and social justice principles, consumer advocacy, consumer representation, looking after yourself, committee skills, looking after yourself, networking, essential knowledge and skills for advocacy and evaluations

• Mental Health Training for Inpatient Paediatric Staff: a training package and resources on caring for young people with mental health issues in paediatric inpatient settings.
   

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Address: 80 William St, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, Australia

Email: info@being.org.au

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Verywell Mind is an award-winning resource for reliable, compassionate, and up-to-date information on the mental health topics. They are a library of curated, comprehensive information.

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