Social media is meant to benefit its users by bringing people closer together. You can follow your favourite actor’s day on Instagram, see what your high school crushes are up to on Facebook and even bring powerful politicians down a peg on Twitter. However, recent research has found that for young users, the majority of […]
মানসিক স্বাস্থ্য ফ্যাক্ট শীট বাংলা
WayAhead has had a number of our Mental Health fact sheets translated into Bengali. These fact sheets are available to download and print.এখানে ডাউনলোড করুন Download here
WayAhead Workplaces
Our WayAhead Workplaces Manager, Sharon Leadbetter, talks about how to create a mentally healthy workplace.
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Mental Health Matters
Mandarin Speakers Support Group – Ryde
When Bi Yun Huang started volunteering for Mental Health Carers NSW, (a community-based organisation supporting carers, family and friends of those suffering from mental illness, she wanted to look into how to best have other carers like herself engage in support groups and share their experiences. Chinese-Australians often deal with significant stigma regarding mental health. […]
Interview with Sharon Leadbetter – WayAhead Workplaces Coordinator
At WayAhead, we are lucky to work with some very keen minds, working on some very important issues. Before the WayAhead Workplaces Annual Members Forum, we had a chance to sit down with Sharon Leadbetter, the WayAhead Workplaces Coordinator, to have a chat about the program and the latest research and trends in mental health […]
An Update of Research into Anxiety
Summary of the paper: Anxiety Disorders, by Michelle G. Craske, Murray B. Stein, Thalia C. Eley, Mohammed R. Milad, Andrew Holmes, Ronald M. Rapee, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen; (in press; 2017) Nature Reviews Disease Primers. Precis by Ronald M Rapee, Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. In late 2016, several international researchers, who […]
Meet Alice Cheok: The Grateful Refugee
It is stories like Alice Cheok’s that remind us that while migrants have a past, they also have a future here and have so much to offer to the Australian community. It is stories like Alice Cheok’s that remind us that while migrants have a past, they also have a future here and have so […]
WayAhead Workplaces Annual Forum 2017
Everyone in the workforce can think of a story either positive or negative where their place of work has had an impact on them. The kind of place where we work, socialise and spend a significant portion of our lives plays a huge role in our overall wellbeing. Workplaces are increasingly recognising this and turning […]
Young and Promising
SBS has a streaming video service called SBS On Demand and it is a great way to catch up on shows you may have missed or didn’t know existed. The Scandinavian countries are excellent producers of television content and having plenty of it to catch through the On Demand service can provide many hours of […]
Recent Workings Within
WayAhead’s scope of interests covers a range of different issues relating to mental health and wellbeing. Our public statements, a key part of our work, are now all available online to read. Read our response to the Federal Budget and the proposed investments in improving Australia’s mental health sector. We have also written a statement for […]
