@kerryhawkins.bsky.social
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my friend Michele speaking out about this bullshit
“I’m trying to cope with return of the cancer on top of communication issues. I haven’t cried this much since I was a teenager and I was excluded from social gatherings because I was deaf”
hearingpractitionernews.com.au/calls-for-he...
“I’m trying to cope with return of the cancer on top of communication issues. I haven’t cried this much since I was a teenager and I was excluded from social gatherings because I was deaf”
hearingpractitionernews.com.au/calls-for-he...
Calls for health workers to improve communication with the hard of hearing
Sydney woman Ms Michele Nealon, who has hearing loss and cancer, has called for better communication and empathy from health workers towards patients who are hard of hearing.
hearingpractitionernews.com.au
May 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
my friend Michele speaking out about this bullshit
“I’m trying to cope with return of the cancer on top of communication issues. I haven’t cried this much since I was a teenager and I was excluded from social gatherings because I was deaf”
hearingpractitionernews.com.au/calls-for-he...
“I’m trying to cope with return of the cancer on top of communication issues. I haven’t cried this much since I was a teenager and I was excluded from social gatherings because I was deaf”
hearingpractitionernews.com.au/calls-for-he...
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disability organisations, including mine, and legal folks, calling for changes to voting laws that say some disabled people can't vote
alhr.org.au/wp/wp-conten...
alhr.org.au/wp/wp-conten...
alhr.org.au
May 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
disability organisations, including mine, and legal folks, calling for changes to voting laws that say some disabled people can't vote
alhr.org.au/wp/wp-conten...
alhr.org.au/wp/wp-conten...
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🛑 STOP 🛑
doing universal
mental health
interventions
in schools
They don’t work & young people don’t like them
Another great thread from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Thanks Lucy!
#FutureProofingStudy
#YouthMentalHealth
#Depression
doing universal
mental health
interventions
in schools
They don’t work & young people don’t like them
Another great thread from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Thanks Lucy!
#FutureProofingStudy
#YouthMentalHealth
#Depression
This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions
A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y)
No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia)
(🧵)
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y)
No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia)
(🧵)
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
April 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🛑 STOP 🛑
doing universal
mental health
interventions
in schools
They don’t work & young people don’t like them
Another great thread from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Thanks Lucy!
#FutureProofingStudy
#YouthMentalHealth
#Depression
doing universal
mental health
interventions
in schools
They don’t work & young people don’t like them
Another great thread from @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Thanks Lucy!
#FutureProofingStudy
#YouthMentalHealth
#Depression
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Age-at-migration and ethnicity may increase psychosis risk buff.ly/3obYRIt
#Migrants #Migration #Psychosis #RiskFactors #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
#Migrants #Migration #Psychosis #RiskFactors #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
April 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Age-at-migration and ethnicity may increase psychosis risk buff.ly/3obYRIt
#Migrants #Migration #Psychosis #RiskFactors #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
#Migrants #Migration #Psychosis #RiskFactors #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
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"'The system wasn't broken; it was built this way.'
Four years after Victoria's Mental Health Royal Commission, I examine why reform is stalling and what lessons we can take from the process.
www.croakey.org/lessons-from...
Four years after Victoria's Mental Health Royal Commission, I examine why reform is stalling and what lessons we can take from the process.
www.croakey.org/lessons-from...
Lessons from a stalled mental health reform process in Victoria
Introduction by Croakey: Just over four years after a Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System tabled its final report
www.croakey.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"'The system wasn't broken; it was built this way.'
Four years after Victoria's Mental Health Royal Commission, I examine why reform is stalling and what lessons we can take from the process.
www.croakey.org/lessons-from...
Four years after Victoria's Mental Health Royal Commission, I examine why reform is stalling and what lessons we can take from the process.
www.croakey.org/lessons-from...
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On the eve of a new parliament, these are three areas disability advocates want addressed, write Evan Young and Nas Campanella.
Three big disability issues the next government needs to address
On the eve of a new parliament, these are three areas disability advocates want addressed, write Evan Young and Nas Campanella.
www.abc.net.au
April 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
On the eve of a new parliament, these are three areas disability advocates want addressed, write Evan Young and Nas Campanella.
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interesting new data from the NDIS showing how few folks move from supported employment (paying sub-minimum wages) at all. this is not a transition to open employment
www.ndis.gov.au/understandin...
www.ndis.gov.au/understandin...
Supports in employment | NDIS
The NDIS can fund supports in employment for participants who need extra help to achieve their employment goals.
www.ndis.gov.au
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
interesting new data from the NDIS showing how few folks move from supported employment (paying sub-minimum wages) at all. this is not a transition to open employment
www.ndis.gov.au/understandin...
www.ndis.gov.au/understandin...
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read this and weep, about what is happening to disabled people, exploited by profiteers and neglected by those meant to be safeguarding them
I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Inside a squalid house linked to a suspected NDIS fraudster
People with mental illness are getting lost in the NDIS system, isolated from friends and family and abandoned while their lucrative government funding is drained. This is how they're living.
www.abc.net.au
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
read this and weep, about what is happening to disabled people, exploited by profiteers and neglected by those meant to be safeguarding them
I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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A disabled man dies, and no one knows. Providers of intensive home and living support have to be regulated much more strongly. @inclusionoz.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
NDIS housing provider enters liquidation days after death of man
The death of a man with disability in NDIS-supported housing last month sparks a police investigation and renewed calls for mandatory provider registration.
www.abc.net.au
April 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A disabled man dies, and no one knows. Providers of intensive home and living support have to be regulated much more strongly. @inclusionoz.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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End sub-minimum wages now
“People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Charlotte’s friends with Down syndrome are paid $3 an hour. It’s legal in Australia - and she’s taking a stand
Down Syndrome Australia launches campaign to encourage politicians to abolish subminimum wage
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
End sub-minimum wages now
“People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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horrifying and important story. so, so many similarities in disability support provision - abuse and violence, neglect, lack of regulation, profiteering and exploitation for money. how much more evidence is needed about utter market failure in social care?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Whistleblowers reveal what's really happening in private childcare centres
The mother knew something was wrong. Her four-year-old's tear-streaked face stopped her cold. Heart pounding, she pulled out her phone and hit record.
www.abc.net.au
March 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
horrifying and important story. so, so many similarities in disability support provision - abuse and violence, neglect, lack of regulation, profiteering and exploitation for money. how much more evidence is needed about utter market failure in social care?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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“Accessibility and affordability are central elements of the human right to adequate housing and it’s shameful that the NSW and WA governments are refusing to sign up to the same accessibility standards that all other states agreed to years ago."
humanrights.gov.au/about/news/m...
humanrights.gov.au/about/news/m...
Commissioners slam NSW and WA govts over ‘shameful’ inaction on accessible homes
Australia’s Disability and Age Discrimination Commissioners have called out the governments of NSW and Western Australia for failing older people and people with disability by not requiring new homes ...
humanrights.gov.au
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Accessibility and affordability are central elements of the human right to adequate housing and it’s shameful that the NSW and WA governments are refusing to sign up to the same accessibility standards that all other states agreed to years ago."
humanrights.gov.au/about/news/m...
humanrights.gov.au/about/news/m...
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big investigation into how many disabled people live in group homes, focusing on one provider and the role of the public guardian
not a single word of this should be a surprise to anyone, particularly after the Royal Commission
archive.md/Ykj1Z
not a single word of this should be a surprise to anyone, particularly after the Royal Commission
archive.md/Ykj1Z
March 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
big investigation into how many disabled people live in group homes, focusing on one provider and the role of the public guardian
not a single word of this should be a surprise to anyone, particularly after the Royal Commission
archive.md/Ykj1Z
not a single word of this should be a surprise to anyone, particularly after the Royal Commission
archive.md/Ykj1Z
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Come and be on the NDIS RAC (Reform Advisory Committee) with me and @dougieherd.bsky.social
EOIs and details here:
engage.dss.gov.au/ndis-reform-...
EOIs and details here:
engage.dss.gov.au/ndis-reform-...
NDIS Reform Advisory Committee Expression of Interest | engage.dss.gov.auNDIS Reform Advisory Committee Expression of Interest – engage.dss.gov.au
engage.dss.gov.au
February 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Come and be on the NDIS RAC (Reform Advisory Committee) with me and @dougieherd.bsky.social
EOIs and details here:
engage.dss.gov.au/ndis-reform-...
EOIs and details here:
engage.dss.gov.au/ndis-reform-...
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'The share of wealth held by Australia’s bottom 40% has declined sharply in the last two decades while 3.3m live below the poverty line, a damning report into Australia’s track record on quality of life shows.'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Share of wealth held by Australia’s poorest falls sharply since 2004 – report
Study by Monash University recommends spending increase to fix inequalities in housing, health and education
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
'The share of wealth held by Australia’s bottom 40% has declined sharply in the last two decades while 3.3m live below the poverty line, a damning report into Australia’s track record on quality of life shows.'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences www.nationalelfservice.net?p=210261
#LivedExperience #MentalHealthLaw #MentalHealthAct #InpatientCare #CompulsoryTreatment #Sectioning #InvoluntaryTreatment #Research
#LivedExperience #MentalHealthLaw #MentalHealthAct #InpatientCare #CompulsoryTreatment #Sectioning #InvoluntaryTreatment #Research
Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences - National Elf Service
Updated systematic review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences.
www.nationalelfservice.net
January 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences www.nationalelfservice.net?p=210261
#LivedExperience #MentalHealthLaw #MentalHealthAct #InpatientCare #CompulsoryTreatment #Sectioning #InvoluntaryTreatment #Research
#LivedExperience #MentalHealthLaw #MentalHealthAct #InpatientCare #CompulsoryTreatment #Sectioning #InvoluntaryTreatment #Research
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Really important ART case 'Melbourne woman’s fight to keep NDIS support raises legal questions about agency’s ‘troubling’ processes'
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Melbourne woman’s fight to keep NDIS support raises legal questions about agency’s ‘troubling’ processes
Tribunal decision for 54-year-old Veronica Stephan-Miller suggests onus of proof should be on NDIA, not recipient, before revoking benefits
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really important ART case 'Melbourne woman’s fight to keep NDIS support raises legal questions about agency’s ‘troubling’ processes'
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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When care causes harm: a systematic review of adverse experiences in mental health wards www.nationalelfservice.net?p=210756
#MentalHealthCare #InpatientCare #Harm #PatientExperiences #Qualitative #Seclusion #Restraint #Coercion #Safety #Dignity #Respect #MentalHealthServiceDesign
#MentalHealthCare #InpatientCare #Harm #PatientExperiences #Qualitative #Seclusion #Restraint #Coercion #Safety #Dignity #Respect #MentalHealthServiceDesign
When care causes harm: a systematic review of adverse experiences in mental health wards - National Elf Service
New review takes a broad approach to understanding and categorising adverse inpatient experiences, informing how best to respond to prevent harms.
www.nationalelfservice.net
January 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When care causes harm: a systematic review of adverse experiences in mental health wards www.nationalelfservice.net?p=210756
#MentalHealthCare #InpatientCare #Harm #PatientExperiences #Qualitative #Seclusion #Restraint #Coercion #Safety #Dignity #Respect #MentalHealthServiceDesign
#MentalHealthCare #InpatientCare #Harm #PatientExperiences #Qualitative #Seclusion #Restraint #Coercion #Safety #Dignity #Respect #MentalHealthServiceDesign
New Study Calls Out 'Obstetric Violence' in Rush to Medicate Postpartum Depression www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/new-...
New Study Calls Out 'Obstetric Violence' in Rush to Medicate Postpartum Depression
Critics warn a new drug for postpartum depression may be more about profit than progress, urging a focus on social support systems for new mothers.
www.madinamerica.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:30 PM
New Study Calls Out 'Obstetric Violence' in Rush to Medicate Postpartum Depression www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/new-...
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The Western Australian mental health lived experience peak has released their 🌭 election platform 🌭 for the 8 March 2025 election.
@colinpenter.bsky.social @nicholasprocter.bsky.social @natashamay.bsky.social @kerryhawkins.bsky.social
comhwa.org.au/advocacy/ele...
@colinpenter.bsky.social @nicholasprocter.bsky.social @natashamay.bsky.social @kerryhawkins.bsky.social
comhwa.org.au/advocacy/ele...
December 12, 2024 at 8:39 AM
The Western Australian mental health lived experience peak has released their 🌭 election platform 🌭 for the 8 March 2025 election.
@colinpenter.bsky.social @nicholasprocter.bsky.social @natashamay.bsky.social @kerryhawkins.bsky.social
comhwa.org.au/advocacy/ele...
@colinpenter.bsky.social @nicholasprocter.bsky.social @natashamay.bsky.social @kerryhawkins.bsky.social
comhwa.org.au/advocacy/ele...