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Equally Well National Consensus Statement, new National Mental Health Commission Chair appointed, youth mental health support, and links to helpful mental health and disability resources.

This month’s regional news features The Way Back Support Service for Murrumbidgee, The Moon’s a Balloon choir recruitment, and a new photography group at Opening Doors.

Carers and families are an integral part of Australia’s health care system. Wellways is strongly advocating for continued support for mental health carers in the new NDIS environment.

The Wellways service expansion continues, with a new grant to develop an LGBTIQ peer workforce for NDIS service provision, as well as new suicide prevention programs in NSW and Victoria.

Wellways Helpline has this week launched an extended hours service, Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm, to meet the demand for after-hours mental health support for the community.

A focus on footy in Victoria’s Western Port and Gippsland, a Partners in Recovery employment program at Camp Manyung, and a young women’s wellbeing group on Tasmania’s North West coast.

Recruitment is now underway for the Wellways Helpline and Brainwaves 3CR Community Radio programs, both of which have a long and popular history of attracting dedicated volunteers.

Wellways CEO Elizabeth Crowther responds to questions about the organisation’s new strategic plan, which sets the direction for the next five years.

State funding boosts for mental health in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT, Federal funding to support the mental health of Australian children, and the Productivity Commission Study on NDIS costs.

Wellways will soon launch a new media campaign about our NDIS services in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.