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Advance Mental Wellbeing
Goal:
Advance good mental health and wellbeing for all Tasmanians.
How:
- Promote mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention awareness activities across Tasmania.
- Increase awareness of wellbeing and prevention as fundamental to our mental health system.
- Increase skills and understanding in young people to recognise good mental health and how to support each other.
- Develop strategic partnerships to enable greater collaboration and community driven responses to local need.
See how this aligns with our Strategic Plan.
The Mental Health Council of Tasmania facilitates and supports mental health campaigns and activities that promote self-care, resilience, stigma reduction and general wellbeing. We want all Tasmanians to be equipped with the information, resources, and knowledge they need to help them stay mentally fit and healthy.
Some of our work in this space:
Take a minute
Show "Take a minute"Take a minute is a whole-of-population, positive psychology, strengths-based campaign aiming to raise mental health literacy in Tasmania with a targeted approach at the community level. Our research partners, Be Well Co (affiliated with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute) are experts in mental health promotion and behavioural change and have assisted with the campaign development based on best evidence.
The campaign is centred on a new approach which focusses on promotion, prevention and early action to maintain mental wellness and decrease stigma. A Take a minute app is currently in development (due to be launched in May) which will allow individuals and groups to take part in a series of ‘challenges’ which help highlight the things that people have in their lives that are beneficial to their mental health and wellbeing. The app will essentially streamline the current ‘7 minute challenge’ (as well as other new challenges).
Learn more at www.takeaminute.com.au
Youth Mental Health
Show "Youth Mental Health"The Youth Mental Health Access Project involves development of a Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Program.
This is a positive, new program for young people in Tasmania. It will give them the knowledge, skills and resources to engage their friends, family and community in understanding what positive mental health and wellbeing looks like and how to maintain it.
It has been developed by adapting the Mental Health Council of Tasmania’s Take a minute campaign for young people and will be delivered by trained Youth Peer Leaders in schools, youth services and organisations.
The program will also increase awareness amongst educators, parents and young people of the value of early intervention in cases of poor mental health and the process of identifying what sort of support is needed. This aims to improve the issue of young people being unable to access timely and appropriate support when needed.
Mental Health Week
Show "Mental Health Week"Mental Health Week is part of a national mental health promotion campaign held in October each year, and incorporates World Mental Health Day, held globally on 10 October. The purpose of this awareness week is to engage communities in activities that promote mental health and wellbeing and also increase understanding and reduce stigma about mental illness, and how it impacts on the lives of people in our community.
This includes an annual small grant program to help organisations run events and activities which promote positive mental health.
Learn more by visiting our Mental Health Week page.
A focus on prevention
Show "A focus on prevention"Prevention and early intervention are vital to building positive mental health and wellbeing for all Tasmanians.
As of April 2025, MHCT are developing a submission to the State Government’s 20-Year Preventive Health Strategy. We intend to build on this submission with more initiatives to promote positive mental health, wellbeing, and suicide prevention awareness across Tasmania.
In September 2024, we published a report that made the case for a Suicide Prevention Act for Tasmania.