World Mental Health Day
10 October 2007

What is World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is an annual event jointly supported by the International Association for Suicide Prevention in collaboration with other NGO’s and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization.

Every year a different theme is set by the World Federation for World
Mental Health Day. The theme for 2007 is 'Mental health in a changing world: the impact of culture and diversity'.

The aims of World Mental Health Day are:

• to promote mental health awareness
• to strengthen community connections
• to provide advice and activities to enable positive health behaviours

Lifeline’s role in Mental Health

Lifeline provides a range of vital services and resources in support of mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Lifeline’s 24 hour 13 11 14 telephone counselling service plays a uniquely valuable role within the mental health system, overcoming time and distance by providing support day and night, to people in both rural and metropolitan communities.

Over the past 10 years, the issues surrounding mental health have become critically prominent in Australian society. Lifeline’s confidential telephone counselling service 13 11 14 has always provided a safe haven for persons with a variety of social and emotional problems to seek support and assistance due to the non-judgemental, confidential nature of the service.

Other mental health services provided by Lifeline

Lifeline Information Service: Your mental health and self-help resource. This service can be access online or by calling 1300 13 11 14 between 9am and 5pm. It provides information on a range of mental health issues, including resources such as self-help tool kits.
Visit the Lifeline Information Service page on our website.

Lifeline Service Finder : An online searchable directory of community services promoting wellbeing. The Lifeline Service Finder lists details of around 20,000 services and service providers around the country.
Visit the Lifeline Service Finder page on our website

Services provided by Lifeline Centres
Lifeline has Centres operating from more than 60 locations around the country. Many of these Centres offer programs and services tailored to the needs of local communities.
To find a Lifeline Centre near you visit our Lifeline Locations Page.

New Resources

A Rural Men’s Health project has been funded under the Australian Government’s National Rural Primary Health Projects (NRPHP) administered through the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for Lifeline Australia to produce a research based national callers profile on male calls to Lifeline.

Lifeline Calls Profile: Help seeking behaviours in rural men

The profile identifies help seeking behaviours of men living in rural and remote Australia and gives insight into their experiences, highlighting concerns for mental health issues such as depression, and anxiety.

Download the new calls profile

Tool kit for men experiencing difficult times

A tool kit has also been developed as part of this project and is relational to the Profile and promotes and supports men experiencing difficult times and mental health concerns to seek help. The tool kit explores and explains the importance of good mental health and gives information, and resources to support and assist help seeking behaviours

Download the new self-help toolkit

 

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