On the back of Mental Health Week this year, Out Doors has been lucky enough to secure unlimited Community Service Announcements (CSAs) on ABC TV in Victoria until the end of the year! Make sure you tune into ABC1 between … Continue reading →
Out Doors Inc. wrote an article for the Department of Health’s October 2011 newsletter, Health Victoria, promoting the organisation’s new website, promotional video and 30sec TVC, as well as the importance of getting outdoors and participating in life enhancing activities. … Continue reading →
As today is World Mental Health Day 2011, long time participant and ambassador, Caz Healy, spoke to 3AW’s Tom Elliott about her experiences with mental illness and her involvement with Out Doors Inc. Caz discussed how doing something challenging and … Continue reading →
In 2011, Mental Health Week will run from Sunday 9th to Saturday 15th October. World Mental Health Day is marked every year on the same date: 10th of October. Mental Health Week aims to activate, educate and engage Victorians about mental health through … Continue reading →
The federal government has added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) all the drugs it deferred listing in February. Labor has been heavily criticised by medical and community groups since it deferred PBS listing of seven drugs in February, even … Continue reading →
PREMIER Ted Baillieu last night ordered a wide-ranging inquiry into dozens of patient deaths inside Victoria’s mental health system. The inquiry follows a report in The Saturday Age exposing the high rates of unexpected and unnatural deaths in the state’s mental health … Continue reading →