Latest Q & A

Answered: Free Mental Health Awareness Day?

"Bringing Back Hope" means People, regardless of life stage, have at times felt life as a struggle and a time of grief.

The "Bringing Back Hope" - Mental Health Awareness Day is a free open day where different aspects of mental health issues will be raised.

It is a day focused not on trying to reinvent the wheel, but to bring the spokes back together. On the day we encourage networking and creative partnerships, bringing together information.

The aim is to raise "the care factor" and reduce the stigma of mental illness and suicide specifically in the Liverpool and hopefully communities at large.

"Bringing back hope" means taking the hopelessness out of mental health.

Answered: Way Ahead Directory Free of charge?

Join the Mental Health Association NSW (MHA) in their Letter Writing Campaign.
Pen poised? Let’s write to make the Way Ahead available Free of charge.

The Way Ahead, is constantly changing. For more than 10 years, MHA collected mental health services information, collated it and sold it to a wide variety of buyers - ranging from consumers through to community and allied health workers.

Answered: Mental health and welfare related services across NSW?

The Way Ahead Directory contains up-to-date information on more than 2000 mental health and welfare related services across New South Wales.

Updated annually and now in its 9th edition the directory is available as a CD-Rom, which can be uploaded to your intranet, and a Book.

Answered: What is Social Security Disability (SSD)?

Social Security Disability benefits, which are often referred to as SSD, are financial payments made to eligible individuals who can no longer work as determined by the standards of the Social Security Administration. SSD is for individuals who have a work history and have paid in to the Social Security system through their witholding taxes. In order to be eligible for SSD, you must have worked a certain period of time (usually 5 of the last 10 years) prior to when you became disabled.

Answered: Want to Volunteer?

Make a Friend - Change a life! Become a Volunteer for Compeer

The Compeer Program matches volunteers from the community with someone who has a diagnosed mental illness in a one on one friendship.

Help break down the stigma and loneliness that can accompany mental illness through friendship & social support.