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
Cabramatta Mental Health
For many years, Cabramatta was known as the heroin capital of Australia. Crime on the streets was rife, so was racism, and people were scared. I have many memories of wanting to play in the park but not being allowed to because there were needles on the ground. There are lots of those stories in […]
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 […]
Behind the Photographer’s Lens
Last month, documentary photographer, Jennifer Blau, exhibited her portraits of people who had had an eating disorder in the series Just ask me how I feel, created in partnership with WayAhead. The portraits were shown at Manly Library as part of the international Head On photo exhibition that runs in Sydney every year. Since […]
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 […]
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 […]
The latest in Australian memoirs
A number of new memoirs have been released in the last few months, exploring the experiences of those who have either experienced illness first hand or have cared for those with mental ill health. Addiction in women isn’t often talked about but Woman of Substances, Jenny Valentish’s research treatise and memoir, never shies away. Having […]
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 […]
