Healthy mind

Local support

Contact the Barwon Health Mental Health team across Geelong, Bellarine and the Surf Coast. These teams provide community and in-patient services for people aged between 16 and 65 years, affected by serious complex mental illness.

BeyondBlue working to increase awareness and understanding of anxiety and depression in Australia and to reduce the associated stigma.

The Butterfly Foundation is committed to creating better access to support for people with eating disorders and body image issues as well as those caring for them such as their families and friends.

Support for workplaces

Businesses that actively promote good mental health attract and retain top talent because they’re great places to work.

By supporting people with mental health conditions and encouraging openness, they create workplace cultures that are diverse and inclusive.

BeyondBlue's Heads Up can help in creating a mentally healthy workplace.

Support for children and adolescents

headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. headspace can help young people who are going through a tough time.

If you're 12-25, you can get health advice, support and information from headspace Geelong.

The Department of Education has a suite of mental health documents, programs and collateral to support mental health in schools and early learning centres including information on safe and inclusive environments, social and emotional learning and the importance of family. 

Be You is the national mental health in education initiative delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace.

Be You supports educators from early learning services and schools to develop a positive, inclusive and resilient learning community where every child, young person, educator and family can achieve their best possible mental health. 

Smiling Mind is modern meditation for young people. It is a unique web and App-based program, designed to help bring balance to young lives.

Multicultural mental health

There are a range of mental health services available locally and across Australia for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

If you need support for your mental health and wellbeing, please reach out to:

• Your General Practitioner (GP) to discuss your individual needs
• Barwon Child, Youth, and Family has a Refugee and Asylum Seeker Counselling Service which can be reached at 03 5226 8900
• Cultura (Diversitat) has a Mental Health Team and you can contact them on 03 4210 0000
• Lifeline Australia (131 113) is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services
• Embrace Multicultural Mental Health has a range of community information and resources available in multiple languages
• Head to Health is a directory of digital mental health services from some of Australia’s most trusted mental health organisations.