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Opinion / BY Ella Cullen

Surgical precision

3 min read

Dr Ella Cullen, Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, says we must carefully and deliberately consider how to make online life safer.There is no quick fix to such a complex issue

Surgical precision

Peer professional development

Perspective / BY Janice McGill

Peer professional development

2 min read

Growth without development risks weakening the very essence of peer practice.

Have we lost our why?

Opinion / BY Mary O'Hagan

Have we lost our why?

3 min read

If we are not careful, we end up advocating for ourselves rather than for those we are meant to serve. Part of the problem is that we have blurred who is advocating for whom.

INNOVATION

AI , no Mr Fix it

Innovation / BY Frank Lorfino

AI , no Mr Fix it

3 min read

What are the parts of mental health care that require humans, and what are the parts that technology can do better? If we get that balance right, we improve care. If we get it wrong, we undermine it

SafeWatch

Innovation / BY Shane Muller

SafeWatch

4 min read

When it comes to technology and mental health, there is a line we cannot cross.Human relationships must come first.

More resilient communities

Innovation / BY Rob Warriner

More resilient communities

6 min read

Rob Warriner states the case for community based NGOs

Sonder welcomes Ember

Innovation / BY Sonder News Hub

Sonder welcomes Ember

2 min read

As a thought partner to Sonder, Ember will play a key role in guiding Crisis Stabilisation in Australia.

SYSTEMS CHANGE

Rainbow mental health

Systems Change / BY Angus Jenkins

Rainbow mental health

3 min read

Large-scale public health reporting shows higher rates of depression and anxiety among gay and bisexual men compared with men overall

Stigma is the system

Systems Change / BY Jenny Mulkearns

Stigma is the system

4 min read

Jenny Mulkearns says we cannot separate workforce wellbeing from mental health. They are the same conversation.

Caught between cultures

Systems Change / BY Ivan Yeo

Caught between cultures

3 min read

Ivan Yeo, talks mental health, culture, identity and the burden of fitting in

Let's get Peer right!

Systems Change / BY Shelwin Khan

Let's get Peer right!

3 min read

Peer support is not about being cheaper, softer, or inspirational. Peer support is a relational and intention partnership grounded in mutuality through the use of lived experience

WELL BEING

Flow Not Control

Wellbeing / BY Magdel Hammond

Flow Not Control

4 min read

What would it mean to design our systems like braided streams, not as a metaphor, but as a principle?

The library that never sleeps

Wellbeing / BY Jimmy Westerheim

The library that never sleeps

5 min read

Founder Jimmy Westerheim discusses his ward winning and global Life Experience Library, accessible anytime, anywhere.

Global network - status DOWN!

Wellbeing / BY Simon Kozak Editor

Global network - status DOWN!

3 min read

Is this the beginning of a safer digital environment for young people, or the start of a new set of unintended consequences that societies are only beginning to understand?

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