Have you locked in your QMHW event date for 2022? Once you've made plans, you can register it on the QMHW website to let people know about it.

We’ll be adding a range of downloadable resources to the QMHW website in the coming months to help event hosts with their planning and promotions.

Do you have a lived experience of mental illness or as a mental health carer? Health consumers and carers who are based in Queensland and are interested in becoming involved in the governance of QMHW are encouraged to apply now for representative roles.

Did you know that our friends at SANE Australia host Topic Tuesday every fortnight on the forums? Each event focuses on a different topic with the session facilitated by a Community Manager or Moderator, and joined by a Peer Support Worker.

On Tuesday 22 February the discussion will focus on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Join the biggest walk for mental health - 9kms around the Brisbane River or participate and walk from anywhere! Mental Awareness Foundation are hosting this year's event on Sunday 9 October with registrations already open.

Wesley Mission Queensland, with support from Queensland Health, recently established the COVID Recovery Border Communities Service. The Service is a fully-funded mental health and wellbeing support service available for small business owners, their families, and employees living within the Queensland border community who are experiencing distress and deterioration in wellbeing from COVID-19.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention is holding its Asia Pacific Conference on the Gold Coast in May 2022. Early bird registrations are now open. Full abstract submissions are now closed. Poster abstract submissions remain open until 28th February 2022.

With funding from the National Mental Health Commission,the National Human Rights Commission has launched two surveys to better understand the social, emotional, educational, and other impacts experienced by children aged 9 to 17 and their parents over the past two years’. The 10 minute survey will help inform the support services children and their families need.

Supported with $1.5 million in Australian Government funding, Lifeline has launched a 24/7 crisis text service to expand its support for Australians struggling with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lifeline Crisis Support Text Service is available via text message to 0477 13 11 14. 

The Big Anxiety Festival is coming to Brisbane this May! The festival’s main feature is The Big Reach, a two-day paid event at QUT Gardens Point Theatre from 27-28 May, which is set to include in-depth conversations, sideshows and workshops, reimagining the future of mental health and emotional wellbeing through a creative lens.

Finding ways to like, accept, love or even feel positive about our bodies can be challenging, but we can all strive to be a little kinder. That’s why Butterfly has partnered with Instagram and five of Australia’s top creators to discuss how we can protect our mental health and body image while on social media, so we can be #BodyKindOnline – to ourselves and to others.

The 2022 Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium website has been launched! They Symposium will be held in Adelaide from 9-11 November.

Presenter applications are now open for this year's program if you're interested in sharing your latest research findings, projects, lived-experience learnings or developments paving the way for greater mental health equality in our rural and remote communities.