6-14 October 2018

Get ready for QMHW 2018 

Queensland Mental Health Week is 6-14 October 2018. Note it in your diaries. It’s going to be big.

QMHW is an important opportunity to:

• Promote positive mental health and wellbeing
• Create understanding of mental illness and recovery
• Celebrate the lives of people living with mental illness

Please read on to find out how to get involved.

Host an event

Get involved and host an event to promote positive metal health and wellbeing in your community

• Download the event organiser kit for inspiration and guidance
• Register your event online so we can help you promote it

Join the conversation

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Apply for a grant

The QMHW grant program offers grants up to $2500 for successful applicants to host registered Queensland Mental Health Week (QMHW) events.

Grants are now open and local government, non-government and community organisations are invited to apply. Grants will focus on events that promote positive mental health and wellbeing, create understanding of mental illness and engage and include people with lived experience of mental illness.

For more information and to download an application form visit the grants page of the QMHW website.

Applications must be in by 5:00pm on Monday, 6 August 2018

Queensland Mental Health Week Achievement Awards

Nominations are open! If you, or a person or organisation you know have worked to support and empower those with mental illness, then you can nominate for one of these prestigious awards.

Open Minds are the proud hosts of the Awards. Visit the awards page on their website to download a nomination prospectus and complete the online application form.

Nominations close on Monday 3rd September 2018!

The awards are presented at a ceremony over breakfast on Friday 12th October at Brisbane City Hall.

Calling all artists

Applications are open for the 2018 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition to be held in King George Square from 5-12 October during Mental Health Week.

The MIFQ exhibition, hosted by RFQ, is for avid artists living with or who have a lived experience of mental illness. The theme this year is ‘GLOW' and artists are encouraged to draw inspirations from the theme when creating their artwork. Artwork can include paintings in various media, sketches, poetry and photography.

If you would like to exhibit your work, please visit the MIFQ website and complete an online lodgement form button below.

Uplifting. Bright. Empowering.

Art students of St Andrews Catholic College in front of the colourful mural

In 2018 we have updated our website with a mural painted by the students of St Andrews Catholic College, Cairns for Queensland Mental Health Week in 2017. They titled it Uplifting. Bright. Empowering. and we couldn’t agree more!

Our 2018 campaign theme

The theme for our 2018 campaign is to value mental health – with six steps

1.    Be active – do what you can, enjoy what you do, get moving and improve your mood

2.    Keep learning – embrace new experiences, recognise opportunities, surprise yourself

3.    Connect – talk, listen, be there

4.    Give – your time, your words, your presence

5.    Take notice – remember the simple things that give you joy

6.    Care for our planet – it’s the home we all share

Be inspired by these steps to promote positive mental health and wellbeing at home, at work, and at play. 

Use them to help break down the stigma associated with mental illness. 

Let's take six steps to value mental health together— our own, that of our loved ones, friends and colleagues, and people in out communities who need support. 

Stay tuned and share messages of inspiration when out campaign kicks off in August 2018.

Contact us

Have thoughts, ideas or feedback on Queensland Mental Health Week to share with us?  

We’d love to hear from you. Visit our website to contact us

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