You can help design mental heath literacy in our region by taking part in an upcoming workshops with Healthy North Coast.

People with a lived experience of mental ill-health, health service providers and community organisations are invited to help co-design a new Mental Health Literacy Project.

What is the Mental Health Literacy Project?

The Mental Health Literacy Project is funded by the Commonwealth and led by the NSW Mental Health Commission.

This project aims to make it easier for people to get clear and simple information about their health, and to make it easier to access mental health services that are right for them.

Working with people with a lived experience of mental ill-health, Healthy North Coast will design, test and evaluate education and training activities for health professionals to ensure they meet people’s needs.

Why?

Health information can be difficult to understand. The right mental health services can be hard to access. If we can make these things easier we can help people improve their health or stop their health getting worse.

The project will listen to people who have a lived experience of mental ill-health, and their carers and kin, to understand their experiences. This information will be workshopped with people with a lived experience of mental ill-health and health providers to come up with a range of ideas to improve their experience. 

Education and training activities will then be developed for health providers to improve their health literacy based on these ideas.

Co-design workshops

A series of co-design workshops will be held in the last week of October. During the co-design workshops, Healthy North Coast will provide a summary of the data gathered from a recent health literacy survey and the discussions held during the ideas generation workshops. Together, we will work to prioritise solutions for our region.

The three areas of focus are:

1. What are we already doing well, what can we do to support existing activities?

2. What are the gaps or challenges?

3. What capacity building activities could be developed/utilised to support health professionals to improve health outcomes for people experiencing mental ill-health?

Register

To register for the co-design workshops, visit https://hnc.org.au/mental-health-literacy