Free Mental Health Hub for Health Professionals If you work in clinical OT settings—whether in mental health, disability, paediatrics, or supervision—you might find great value in TEN (The Essential Network) by Black Dog Institute https://lnkd.in/eehCW-XU Why it matters to OTs: 🌿 A digital Mental Health Check‑up to help screen for burnout, anxiety, depression—providing tailored, triaged support (blackdoginstitute.org.au, blackdoginstitute.org.au, blackdoginstitute.org.au) 🌿 Up to five free confidential telehealth sessions with a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, no Medicare referral needed, and interactions don’t appear on My Health Record (blackdoginstitute.org.au) 🌿 Access to evidence-based tools, fact sheets, digital programs, plus the TEN “Navigating Burnout” program built specifically for healthcare staff (blackdoginstitute.org.au) 🌿 Peer support networks and resources focused on health‑profession‑specific pressures and barriers to help‑seeking (Lamp Online) As occupational therapy professionals—who understand the daily demands placed on clinicians and frontline support staff—this is a resource you can confidently recommend to colleagues for self-care, team wellbeing, or during supervision and mentoring sessions. www.linkedin.com/posts/sally-pearman-6621566_ten-the-essential-network-for-health-professionals-activity-7356208617194201089-AEBI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAUfVMcB_XfNDd9z3ZMOsoQmEpXLDVpBBXg

But as the reality set in, a new question emerged: how do we keep going? In this piece, I reflect on the emotional journey from advocacy to acceptance, and the hard decisions we’ve had to make to adapt – from shifting staffing to refining service models. Read the full article below...

🧾 548 people responded to our survey on the NDIS Support Lists - including people with disability, family members, carers, providers and advocates. 🔍 The results show that these lists are not working for our community: • Over half said they’ve already gone without supports • 75% had problems with the new In and Out rules • 88% don’t think risks are being properly assessed • 58% said their plans no longer have the flexibility they need People reported delays, confusing rules, mental distress and increasing difficulty managing their supports. 📢 We need the government to hear what our community is saying and take action to fix these lists. Read the full results and what needs to change: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gxdckq2G #EveryAustralianCounts #ProtectOurNDIS #NDIS #DisabilitySupport #DefendOurNDIS

Here is what Sentor Jordon Steele-John said in response to the ministers speech that I posted yesterday "We are seeing confusion reign when it comes to the NDIS and the legislation that is meant to support it. The changes that the government rammed through last year are wreaking havoc in the lives of so many disabled people, their families and their allies. Participants are receiving conflicting information from staff, agency staff are not interacting in a trauma-informed way. Planners continue not to read the evidence they have been provided with and have often requested. There is a continual pattern of planners and agency delegates, making a call, giving a view in relation to clinical evidence that they are not qualified to assess. … Watch the full speech below