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Community Engagement
Goal:
To increase understanding of the role everyone can play in good mental health and wellbeing in the Tasmanian community
Key Initiatives:
- Work with communities, our members and networks to raise awareness and better understanding of how to support each other and identify local need
- Deliver mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention awareness and promotion activities in communities across Tasmania
- Develop strategic partnerships within Tasmania to enable greater collaboration and community driven responses to local need
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.
Tasmanian Mental Health & Wellbeing Literacy Project
Starting in 2023, the Mental Health Council of Tasmania partnered with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute to develop positive psychology campaign.
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 2025) 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).