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Victorian State Election 2022: Provide secure, long-term funding for state-wide suicide prevention and bereavement services
- 24 November 2022
Jesuit Social Services’ recently released Victorian State Election platform, A state of opportunity, builds on 45 years of advocacy and action, to outline our vision for a just society across a range of interconnected social policy areas, from a fairer justice system, to support for people...
World Mental Health Day 2022
- 10 October 2022
COVID-19 gave us an opportunity to speak frankly about mental health – and with the current cost-of-living crises exacerbating the ongoing disadvantage that can leave people at risk of ill mental health, changing social attitudes and tackling disadvantage is imperative to improve wellbeing, writes...
World Suicide Prevention Day
- 9 September 2022
World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10) invites us to reach out especially to them to encourage them speak about the death of the person whom they loved and about how it has affected them. It reminds us that suicide is about more than statistics, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
- 10 September 2021
World Suicide Prevention Day is a time to be grateful for the growing movement to recognise people’s mental illness and desperation and to stand by people who have lost friends and relatives to suicide, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ....
World Health Day 2021
- 6 April 2021
Good health for the young, the old and the vulnerable must be built on respect for their humanity and on good relationships, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ....
Mental health and wellbeing in a time of COVID-19
- 4 December 2020
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International Day of People with Disability
- 1 December 2020
The International Day of People with Disability invites us to remember people who experience from different kinds of disability and to enter their lives compassionately, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ. ...
Social Inclusion Week
- 26 November 2020
In his post for Social Inclusion Week, ANDY HAMILTON SJ writes that social inclusion depends on social friendship – the readiness to welcome others into our lives....
Removing the stigma from mental illness
- 8 October 2020
Mental wellbeing during a pandemic - a chat with Support After Suicide
- 15 May 2020
The social distancing, isolation and separation from regular routines and social connections that are now part of our daily lives as a result of COVID-19 have impacted us all in different ways. Dr Louise Flynn, Manager of Jesuit Social Services’ Support After Suicide program, discusses mental...

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