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Across two days in March, the Life in Mind team attended the Mental Health Victoria Putting It All Together Symposium. In light of the release of several significant reviews into mental health and suicide prevention, this symposium included talks and panel discussions from many key experts dissecting the major reports set to shape mental health reform in the future.

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Meet Life in Mind Champion, Fiona Cornforth, CEO of The Healing Foundation.

From August 2020, users of the Life in Mind portal were surveyed on the impact(s) they experienced during COVID-19. By the end of 2020, results showed that the vast majority of respondents (92%) indicated their emotional, wellbeing and mental health had been impacted.

Black Dog Institute has recently released an insight an impact report into the National Suicide Prevention Trial, an initiative launched by the Commonwealth Department of Health in 2016.

Meet Life in Mind Champion, Samuel Hockey, Youth and lived experience researcher at the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre.

The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT (MHCC ACT) is the latest organisation to sign the National Communications Charter (The Charter), formally demonstrating their commitment to how the organisation will talk about mental health, wellbeing and suicide, as well as improve how these issues are responded to across the community.

View the final edition of Life in Mind eNews for 2020.

Brendan Maher from Movember has shared his insights on the National Communications Charter and what it means to be a Life in Mind Champion leading its dissemination.

Figures recently released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies as part of the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), indicated the need for increased research in youth suicide including a focus on help-seeking and supports for young people to reduce suicide.