Mental Health Awareness Week challenge a win-win for Southern businesses and community
Organisations across the Southern Lakes region are signing up for a new challenge which aims to boost their staff mental wellbeing this Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 September) and generate funding to support mental health in their communities.
WellSouth and Headlight supporting the mental health of Southern Parents
Headlight has been helping to support the mental health of parents across the Southern District thanks to a recent training project with WellSouth Primary Health Network.
Since November 2022, Headlight facilitators have travelled to five different locations across the Southern region to bring tailored mental health education to breastfeeding peer support volunteers who support the wellbeing of parents and families with young children.
Innovative Queenstown Project Profiled at International Health Conference
A Queenstown-based social enterprise has received international attention this month for its work bringing mental health education to remote and rural communities.
Anna Dorsey, Chief Executive and founder of Headlight was a speaker at the 24th International Mental Health Conference, held in the Gold Coast from the 7th to 9th June.
Headlight celebrates the big 5-0!
The Headlight team is celebrating a major milestone this month; with 50 mental health education workshops having been delivered to the Queenstown Lakes and wider Southern community to date!
Introducing our new Headlight board members - Two new Trustees at Headlight
Our board of trustees was delighted to welcome two new trustees this March.
Dr Marion Poore is a public health physician, based in Arrowtown, who brings with her extensive experience in the public health sector. Marion trained as a GP early in her health career, and more recently has worked as a public health specialist, both at a national level supporting the COVID response, and regionally for Southern District Health Board, in the role of Medical Officer of Health from 2004 until May 2019.
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