Juggling scarves or smashing plates may not sound like your typical therapy session but for Honora Jenkins, it offers the ideal way for kids, and adults, to feel engaged and connected in a fun, energetic and safe space. The Wollongong-based circus facilitator has been working with Flourish Australia, formerly Richmond RPA, for the past 12 […]
2017 Annual Report
Read about our achievements and work during 2016/17 improving NSW mental health and wellness.
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WayAhead Workplaces
Our WayAhead Workplaces Manager, Sharon Leadbetter, talks about how to create a mentally healthy workplace.
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The Mind Reader
Meet Jo – Carer, Sister, Aunt, Mother
Jo is a resilient woman. As a carer to her sister and nephew, both of whom lived with schizophrenia, and then to her son, who developed clinical depression and bipolar disorder, she has experienced a road full of personal heartache and despair, and while there have been moments on her journey where her resolve has […]
Peer Led Recovery
Imagine you walk into a restaurant and ask for the day’s special. Instead you’re served the same dish as everyone else. You try to speak out but you’re told it’s what everyone else gets, that it’s been taken by hundreds of customers before you. Explaining what you need to a business but being sold something […]
Accommodating OCD
Our families are one of our best support networks that we can rely on when we need a hand. In the mental health sector, family can be someone who actively cares for a consumer and supports them through recovery. However, among obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) consumers, the family can potentially become engrained in a person’s […]
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 […]
Reflections from five years leading the NSW Mental Health Commission
During July, WayAhead, Being and Mental Health Carers NSW hosted a farewell lunch at the joint Collective Purpose office for outgoing NSW Mental Health Commissioner John Feneley. Before the lunch Mr Feneley spoke to Mental Health Matters about his time as Commissioner, a role he has held since July 2012, and the achievements of the […]
The impacts of unemployment on youth mental health
Caught in the cycle of ‘need experience to get a job; need a job to get experience’, mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and depression are rising alongside unemployment rates – and young Australians are among those who are the most affected. The Participation, Job Search and Mobility survey conducted by the Australian Bureau […]
From Cambodia to Australia – Leakhena Sous
One woman’s remarkable story of survival. Jean Roxon talks immigration; looking at one woman’s extraordinary story of escaping Cambodia in the 1970s, the impacts it had on her and her family’s mental health, and what it means to be Australian. Walking through Sydney recently, it has been hard to miss the ‘Real Australians Say Welcome’ […]
