International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) on 31 August 2023 is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died from overdose, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.  The 2023 IOAD theme...

Young people in the Colac area have increased access to a range of specialist mental health supports and services with the opening of the community’s new headspace centre in October. headspace Colac is providing young people aged 12 to 25 and their families with access to a youth-friendly,...

Specialist support in the comfort of home is changing the way people are treated with acute mental illness, thanks to a Victoria-first Hospital in the Home (HITH) program at Barwon Health. Since April 2021, a multi-disciplinary team has provided an alternative option to hospital admission for...