  {"id":26282,"date":"2024-10-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&#038;p=26282"},"modified":"2024-09-27T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T04:48:54","slug":"welcome-to-mental-health-week-2024","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/welcome-to-mental-health-week-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Mental Health Week 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mental Health Week is a national celebration dedicated to raising awareness about mental wellbeing, encouraging social connection, reducing the stigma around mental health and promoting prevention strategies to keep our communities healthy. The week is normally scheduled around World Mental Health Day, which occurs on 10 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the theme is: <strong>Empowering communities, thriving workforces: a journey towards investing in our mental health.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<section\n                class=\"block block--no-indent article-overlay \"\n        role=\"complementary\" aria-label=\"Article overlay\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n    <div class=\"grid\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mental-health-week-event-banner-1000-x-500-px.png\" class=\"article-overlay__image\" alt=\"\">\n        <div class=\"article-overlay__inner\" data-overlay-offset=\"default\">\n                            <h2 class=\"article-overlay__title\">Discover what&#8217;s on this week<\/h2>\n                                        <div class=\"article-overlay__content content\">\n                    <p>As part of the celebration this year, there are a variety of events and activities on our Perth campus, as well as online workshops, for you to take part in.<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n                                        <ul class=\"article-overlay__links pink-links last-mb0\">\n                                                                    <li>\n                                                            \n                                <a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/events\/mental-health-week-2024\/\" >Get the details<\/a>\n                                                    <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; <strong>it\u2019s okay to ask for help when you need it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis now, call 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who need support, there are a number of helplines available to call:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0provides 24-hour crisis counselling, support groups and suicide prevention services. Call\u00a0<strong>13 11 14<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/crisis-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">text 0477 13 11 14<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/crisis-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chat online.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suicide Call Back Service<\/a>\u00a0provides 24\/7 support if you or someone you know is feeling suicidal. Call\u00a0<strong>1300 659 467<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kidshelpline.com.au\/\">Kids HelpLine<\/a> \u00a0provides a free 24\/7 phone and online counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25. Call<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beyond Blue<\/a>\u00a0aims to increase awareness of depression and anxiety and reduce stigma. If you or a loved one need help, you can call\u00a0<strong>1300 22 4636<\/strong>, 24 hours\/7 days a week or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/get-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chat online<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13yarn.org.au\/\">13YARN<\/a> on 13 92 76 (24\/7 crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<section\n                class=\"block block--no-indent cards \"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n    \n        <div class=\"card-grid\"\n         data-card-size=\"standard\"         data-card-count=\"3\"\n         data-card-background=\"white\">\n                    <div id=\"learn-how-to-support-a-friend\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Learn how to support a friend<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>To learn more about how you can reach out and support a friend experiencing mental health challenges, <a href=\"https:\/\/rightbyyou.org.au\/\">visit RightByYou<\/a>, a mental health resource and website designed by young people for young people.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div id=\"learn-how-to-chatsafe\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Learn how to #chatsafe<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>Access the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orygen.org.au\/chatsafe\">#chatsafe guidelines<\/a> to learn how to communicate safely online about self-harm and suicide.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div id=\"get-to-know-curtin-support-services\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Get to know Curtin support services<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/students\/personal-support\/counselling-wellbeing\/counselling\/\">Curtin Psychology and Counselling<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/students\/personal-support\/counselling-wellbeing\/wellbeing\/\">Wellbeing Advisory Service<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/guild.curtin.edu.au\/advice\/\">Student Assist run by the Curtin Student Guild<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/compas.org.au\/about-compas\">COMPAS Wellbeing Check<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 5 \u2013 12 October, we\u2019re celebrating Mental Health Week at Curtin by raising awareness of the importance of mental health and hosting a variety of free events all week long. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4418,"featured_media":26285,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"6141,5713,8047,5486,5633,7132","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[146,149],"class_list":["post-26282","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-student-life","oasis-categories-wellbeing"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mental-health-week-event-banner-1000-x-500-px-1588-x-840-px-1000x500.png","author_meta":{"first_name":"Rachelle","last_name":"Erzay","display_name":"Rachelle Erzay"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 08:51:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/26282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/26282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}