MHFA in the Media
April 2006
The Senate Select Committee on Mental Health has released its final report: "A national approach to mental health - from crisis to community".
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This enquiry is one of the
largest and most comprehensive investigations into the state of mental health in
Australia. The MHFA course is included in 2 of its recommendations:
Recommendation 4 (p7-8)
"The
committee recommends that Australian Health Ministers agree to….
- Establish and fund a National Mental Health Advisory Committee made up of consumers, carers and service providers to:…
- promote and manage MHFA programs aiming for 6% of the population to be trained and accredited, targeting those with the greatest probability of coming in contact with mental health issues - terachers, police, welfare workers and family carers.
Recommendation 88 (24)
"…ensure that rural police and ambulance services are a high priority for MHFA training".
31 March
2006
Betty Kitchener interviewed by the Alberta Mental health Board,
Canada about the introduction of the MHFA Program to Canada.
http://www.amhb.ab.ca/news/pdfs/AMHB_OpenMindsMarch_Final2.pdf
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13 July 2005
Julie McCrossin from the Life Matters Program on ABC National Radio talks with Betty Kitchener & Tony Jorm about Mental Health Literacy.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s1412629.htm
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18th November
2004
Paula Goodyer from the Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Betty
Kitchener and Professor Tony Jorm about the Mental Health First Aid program. The
resulting article was published in the Sydney Morning Herald's Health section on
the 18th November 2004. The text from that article can be found here:
smh_181104.doc
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30th August
2004
When the successful evaluation trial of the MHFA Program in the
workplace was published, Dr Norman Swan interviewed Prof Tony Jorm & Betty
Kitchener on ABC Radio National for the Health Report Program. The script can be
read here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1186674.htm
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16 May 2003
There is
also a report of the Mental Health First Aid Program written up in the
Psychiatric News:
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/38/10/32
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2 October 2001
The MHFA
Program was first in the media on ABC TV on the Health Dimensions Program. The
script of the interview between Dr Norman Swan and Betty Kitchener can be read
here:
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/health/transcripts/s381353.htm
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