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Annual Arts and Mental Health Event 07 September 2022 The huge annual celebration that is the Mental Health network's art and performance event is coming up at the end of the month. Held around Mental Health Week each year, the event is a fabulous evening of live performance along with an art exhibition, arts & craft and food market. Last year's event attracted more than 200 people with incredible art exhibited and over half of it sold with proceeds going back to the artists and mental health consumers. The theme for the event this year is 'connection'; a timely subject as we emerge from the period of separation that Covid presented to us. Details of the event are: Date: Friday 30 September Time: doors open 3pm Location: HQ at 60A Frame Court, Leederville Entry: FREE! We encourage you to come along and be part of this fantastic evening. -
Celebrating our staff! 05 September 2022 One of our graphic designers has been recognised as the NMHS Employee of the Quarter for his role in increasing patient and community awareness of the new self-collection option for cervical screening. Cameron Pretsel used his design skills to create engaging collateral to promote the WA Cervical Cancer Prevention Program new self-collection policy expansion which allows all participants to choose between two cervical screening options; a clinician taken sample or a self-collected sample. Cameron's nominator said he reprioritised his workload to ensure the new resource suite was complete in time for the policy change. Cam offered his expertise on graphic design to complement the health information to ensure the resource was of a high standard. One of the judges commented "Cameron is a deserving winner for his willingness to go well above and beyond what is required to ensure his customer... -
Mental Health Service Donation to Ukraine 10 August 2022 MHPHDS Clinical Equipment Coordinator, Chloe Davies, has been busy upgrading equipment for us at Graylands Hospital including securing a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation machine which uses brain stimulation to impact the central nervous system by applying powerful magnetic fields to certain parts of the brain to help with neurological issues. In the course of sourcing this new machines and other equipment for our services, she has amassed a number of ‘retired’ resources that needed a new home, including vital signs monitors and bladder scanners. Chloe has a history of making connections with charitable organisations for the purposes of donating medical equipment and this time she reached out to the Ukrainian Association of Western Australia (UAWA). With her great efforts, she has managed to facilitate the donation of this equipment to be shipped to war-stricken Ukraine for u... -
WA’s first ‘Public Health Nutritionists’ 10 August 2022 NMHS is the proud place of employment of WA’s first 'Public Health Nutritionists' with Julia Platts and Michael Clow becoming the first people to be appointed to this position in Western Australia. As Public Health Nutritionists, their goal is to improve the nutrition of the overall population to help prevent obesity and diet-related diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and many cancers. To do this they will work on identifying the source of nutrition issues within communities and work collaboratively to find ways to address those issues. Julia and Michael will be working in two different streams - the Priority Communities program and the Healthy Population programs – to begin making a real difference to nutritional health amongst the people of WA. A great leap forward for the health of Western Australians. -
Harnessing the power of music in Mark’s mental health therapy and recovery 09 August 2022 ‘Mark Dark’ has brooding deep tones reminiscent of Johnny Cash and a way with words that conjures the lyrics of Nick Cave. It’s hard to believe this is not the description of new talent in the Triple J Unearthed line up. Mark is a client at the Creative Expression Centre for Art Therapy (CECAT) who has been working with Andrew Miller, Senior Occupational Therapist, to harness music as part of his mental health therapy and recovery. With a love of music having played in bands since he was a teenager, Andrew’s talent for instruments, production and sound-engineering has found a synergy with his professional life. Over the past few years, he has been setting up a small recording studio at CECAT and now works with clients to help them express themselves through music. Mark is a prolific poet and has been learning to play instruments, now a quite a dab hand on the ke...
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18/10/2023