Maintaining good mental health in the high-pressure environment of university is crucial, and Flinders offers excellent programs and services to help, but sometimes community resources like the Southern Wellbeing Hub can provide additional support for those in need.
One of the key challenges for those studying and/or working in higher education is maintaining good mental health.
University is a high pressure, high workload environment and most people are also juggling other significant challenges in their lives (e.g. other work, caring responsibilities, family, illness, etc).
High levels of psychological demand = pressure and pressure = stress.
If that stress isn’t managed well, it can lead to burnout and illness.
Flinders already has a range of excellent range of programs and services for students, designed to help with these pressures [contact me if you aren’t sure what is available or how to access them]
But sometimes you might want or need to access services in the community.
Navigating the community services sector is, to put it nicely, a bit of a nightmare 😱
It isn’t that good services don’t exist. In fact, we have a great range of community services. But finding them can be challenging.
So, it is helpful when those services make contact with ours to let us know about them. That means we can let you know about them 🙂
We were recently contacted by the Sarah from the Southern Wellbeing Hub at Neami National, previously known as Links to Wellbeing (side note: I hate that the services keep changing names).
They provide mental health support for people living in the south aged 16-65, and are located at Morphett Vale (good for those in the South).
They have a range of programs with different intensities and have a peer support stream as well.
Below, I’ve reproduced some information from their website: https://www.neaminational.org.au/services/southern-wellbeing-hub/
Whilst you are welcome to chat to one of our GP’s or counsellors about the service, you can contact them directly, without needing a referral from us.
About Southern Wellbeing Hub
What to expect
Our range of services include:
- Evidenced-based Therapies: One on one support for people experiencing mental illness.
- Low Intensity Interventions: Short-term mental health support including phone-based therapy and group support programs.
- Suicide Prevention Service: Support to manage distress, prevent self-harm and suicide, and reduce the need for emergency support such as hospital admission.
- Psychological Evidenced-based Therapies for Families and Children: Family focused services for children up to 11 years old presenting with mental health conditions.
- Clinical Care Coordination: Support to coordinate with all the people involved in someone’s care and support networks to ensure the right support.
- Perinatal Program: Individual and group services for women/expecting or new parents who are experiencing perinatal depression and anxiety.
- Mothers and Infants dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) groups and other DBT groups: Therapy for mothers and individuals experiencing very strong emotions.
- Shared Care Program: A long term evidenced based individual therapy service with experienced mental health clinicians for people experiencing mental illness.
- Access to psychiatric assessment as required.