As part of Australia’s long-term national health plan, there is a strategy designed to implement a preventive, integrated, whole-of-community approach to maintain and support the mental health and wellbeing of children aged 0−12. The new national strategy takes on board recommendations that GPs are central to the ongoing process. The emphasis is on looking at the child in a family or a community context. https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/new-children-s-mental-health-and-wellbeing-roadmap
This World Mental Health Day, Mental Health Australia are asking each of us to make a promise to ourselves for our own mental health. The message is simple, ‘look after your mental health, Australia’, and part of that is promising ourselves that we’re actually going to do so. You can check out more, and see what others have promised, here: https://lookafteryourmentalhealthaustralia.org.au/promise-wall/
Sabra Brock
Madeline Cunningham