Our Vision
CREATING HOPE AND RECOVERY
Living with hope and healing in a community that actively fosters and supports good mental
health.
To improve mental health and well-being for individuals and communities
Our Mission
Our Values
We value the
Lived Experience
We value
Respect
We value
Diversity
We value
Creativity & Innovation
We value
Safety
We value
Resilience
A recovery-focused approach to independent living in the community. Participants are supported through life skills, vocational education, housing support, advocacy and recreational activities.
Pathways to Recovery
A structured activity program that supports people with mental illness to rediscover skills and interests, improve self-confidence, and engage with others through recreational, vocational and arts-based programs.
Day to Day Living (D2DL)
Peer Support
Partners in Recovery (PIR)
NT Partners in Recovery helps people with severe and persistent mental
illness with complex needs, and their carers and families, to access and
coordinate the services they need for their recovery.
Bereavement Support
StandBY is a Suicide Bereavement Support Service provides a 24hr co-ordinated community crisis response to families, friends and associates who have been bereaved through suicide.
Mental Health Tenancy Support Program
MHACA TSP is a free service to public or private tenants who are
having problems managing their tenancy. We help tenants with a
diagnosed mental illness increase their knowledge, skills and
capacity to meet their tenancy agreement obligations and protect
their rights
“I was homeless when MHACA gave me a home! It
gives me my own place to live, my own freedom
and my own space. It’s a secure place to live,
Most important it’s MY HOME.”
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Raising awareness & Reducing Stigma
Schizophrenia Awareness Week
MHACA has awareness raising events during key days in the Health Calendar. Schizophrenia Awareness Week is one such event where we have conducted seminars or activities.
Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Prevention Day – an event to raise awareness about suicide and a healing ceremony conducted every year on R U OK? Day or World Suicide Prevention Day
Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week – usually the second week of October (8 to 16th 2016)
Training Programs
We Offer Training in:Mental Health First Aide (2 day)Youth Mental Health First Aid (2 day)AsistSafetalkSpecial Trainings offered throughout the year.
Training Programs
Suicide StoryWhat keeps our fire strong
Capturing our learning
Water and Rock
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Suicide Story: What is it?
A suicide prevention program developed specifically with and for remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory by the Mental Health Association of Central Australia (MHACA)
An interactive, skills-based workshop, grounded in the practices of suicide prevention education research and ‘two-way’ learning, and comprised of
Storytelling
Group work
Short films and animation
Engages community members with service providers to discuss suicide risk and prevention strategies
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Suicide Story: Aims and Objectives
AIMS
To provide culturally appropriate ways for Aboriginal people to address the issue of suicide in their communities
To build on cultural strengths and stories
To provide communities with a suicide prevention resource
OBJECTIVES
Build on existing knowledge and wisdom of community ways
Define suicide in community terms and break down stigma
Strengthen emotional spirit and equip participants with ‘survival strategies’ of how to stay strong in hard times
Develop the skills to identify the warning signs of suicide and how best to respond
Ensure participants know their available resources
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Mia Mulladad, 2006
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Cultural Safety: Approach and Response
• Safety for you and the person at risk
• Stories of why they are feeling this way and stories of life
• Support in the family and the community
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Underpinned by the philosophy of Cultural Safety
Pre-workshop
• Consultation with community members • Traditional Owners and Elders• Local cultural knowledge • Information about incidence of suicide in the community• Assistance with language and interpretive needs and local resources
• Ensure program is wanted by community, appropriateness of workshop and timing
Facilitator Selection
• All Indigenous Facilitators
• Male to Female ratio
Post-workshop
• Follow up and adherence to community safety plan and goals around suicide prevention
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• Established in 2011 to ensure cultural safety and storytelling integrity throughout program implementation
• The SSAAG provides cultural advice, awareness and consultation, as well as continual guidance on program development
• SSAAG members are made up of individuals who represent a variety of roles in their community and work in a cross-section of organisations in community development, health and in social/ emotional well-being throughout the NT
• Association is voluntary and generally long-term
Suicide Story Aboriginal Advisory Group
(SSAAG)
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Contact Details
Janet Wright, Corporate Services Manager MHACANatalie Williams, Suicide Story Manager MHACA
14, Lindsay AvenueEastsideP: 0889504600E: [email protected]
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