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Friday, 4th August 2023 – Today is Principals’ Day and Camp Australia, the leading provider of Before and After School Care, and Vacation Care, has announced its next Insight Series webinar which will cover wellbeing for school leaders. The Principal Wellbeing Report, recently tabled at parliament, showed a 64% increase in “red flag” alerts from … Continued
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Today, on International Day of Friendship, youth mental health organisation ReachOut has released a new report about the impacts of loneliness on young people across the country. The findings include that more than half (57%) of young people are concerned, stressed or worried about feeling lonely. The new report is based on a national … Continued
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Leading Australian charity, The Missed Foundation (or Missed; previously known as the Missing Persons Advocacy Network, or MPAN) has produced a world-first training tool to help professionals better support families of long-term missing people who are living with ambiguous loss. Launching for National Missing Persons Week, the Ambiguous Loss Masterclass will help police officers, families … Continued
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The results from a Phase 1 clinical trial led by the University of California published today in Nature Medicine has found a single dose of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, administered alongside psychological support, is a safe and acceptable treatment for patients with anorexia nervosa and may decrease eating-disorder behaviours in a subset of patients. Professor … Continued
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As Term 3 commences many young people impacted by school refusal may be struggling to return to the classroom. CEO of youth mental health service ReachOut – Ashley de Silva, is available for comment on school refusal as the issue continues to impact families across the country. Ashley de Silva can speak to: Insights … Continued
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Designers have 3D-knitted bespoke hospital scrubs and 3D printed chill out pods for busy healthcare workers to improve their comfort and workplace mental health. The Safety Sensescaping project, funded by WorkSafe’s WorkWell Mental Health Improvement Fund, is part of Peninsula Health’s Thriving in Health program, which aims to create safe and mentally healthy environments for … Continued
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Promising results in a trial of ketamine for severe depression could lead to treatment becoming more affordable. A low-cost version of ketamine to treat severe depression has performed strongly in a double-blind trial that compared it with placebo. In research published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers led by UNSW Sydney and the … Continued
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The Alliance for Gambling Reform has welcomed the changes to poker machine regulation in Victoria, declaring they will make a significant difference in reducing gambling harm in the State. The Chief Advocate of the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Rev. Tim Costello, said Victorians have waited a very long time for meaningful and significant reforms such … Continued
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The outstanding efforts of volunteers and workers supporting recently arrived refugees will be acknowledged at the 15th year of the NSW Humanitarian Awards on Wednesday 12 July. An initiative of the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) together with the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), the Humanitarian Awards … Continued
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The NSW Service for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) has been awarded joint NSW and Commonwealth Government funding, to deliver programs for refugee communities, that will respond to sexual violence. STARTTS has received $386,775 from NSW Dept of Communities and Justice as part of the Sexual Violence Project Fund grants program. … Continued
