As our Spring ISV coincides with Mental Health Month, we felt it appropriate to have a focus on mental health and well-being in this issue.

Domestic violence is at last an issue in the forefront of public interest, with the appointment of Rosie Batty as Australian of the Year. Vicki Johnston explores the problem and…

Providing opportunities to overcome social isolation can be an essential element for recovery by those affected by mental illness as two case studies from Joseph Vella and Agnes Wilson illustrate.

Mental health and wellbeing is an essential part of the fabric of our society. It runs through everything we do. We are all affected by it and we are all…

We have come a long way from the days when people suffering from mental health issues were placed in asylums, discarded and forgotten. Charmaine Jones explains grass roots Cadre programme.

Wayne Haddon has almost sixty competed works some of which delve into mental health issues like the two we have printed here which give a very personal view of two…

Developed to raise awareness about The Inner City Recovery Cave at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst this yearly event coincides with Mental Health month as Bill Yan and Douglas Holmes…

As you commute around Sydney city what do you notice? We live in close accessible communities and yet we do not know the people who travel in the same space…

Community groups and agencies often have a story to get into the media. We asked Bruce Wardley from Australian Red Cross to share some of his media experience.