headspace Bendigo

About

headspace Bendigo provides free services to support, information and assistance for young people aged 12 to 25 years who are going through a tough time.

Story

Would you like to talk with someone about:
•feeling depressed or anxious?
•feeling like you are not coping?
•finding solutions to issues that are concerning you?
•not sleeping well or sleeping too much?
•finding it hard to concentrate or make decisions?
•changes in your appetite or energy levels?
•feeling alone or no-one understands you?
•concerns with your drinking or drug use?
•concerns about relationships?
•education and training?
•feeling that you don't understand what is happening to you?
•being bullied, hurt or sexually harassed?
•having difficulty finding a job or where you are living?
•concerns about family members' mental health?

Mission

To be the voice in youth mental health in the areas of service delivery, research and development, service reform, community engagement and advocacy.

Products

At headspace Bendigo we have a number of different staff who can help you, including Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Youth workers, Social workers, Drug and alcohol workers, school and work advisors and Counsellors.

MAKING AN APPOINTMENT:

You can drop in at or call to make an appointment, or ask someone you know to make an appointment for you. Call 54 345 345


eheadspace is a confidential, free, anonymous, secure space where you can chat or email with qualified youth mental health professionals:
http://www.eheadspace.org.au/

headspace also has a website packed with helpful information and advice: http://www.headspace.org.au/

Facebook Terms of Use


This headspace Facebook page is for people to find out more about headspace, the services we offer, as well as hosting debate and discussion about important mental health and youth issues. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users.

headspace will remove any posts which:
• are likely to be offensive to other readers
• discusses methods of suicide or self-harm
• discussed drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
• contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
• is dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
• is racist, sexist or discriminatory
• is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
• is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
• for any other reason is likely to cause harm / distress to other young people reading the story
• are posted for commercial purposes
• promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice.

headspace encourages community members to share information about events, support groups or other mental health organisations but request information is only posted once to maintain a flow of discussion and ensure that no one event is given undue prominence. Multiple posts promoting a service, group or product will be removed.

In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a crisis service or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help.

We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
• you are being seriously hurt by someone else
• you are thinking of seriously harming yourself
• someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person.

headspace can take no responsibility for comments on our Facebook page, or any interactions fans may have on or off our Facebook page.