Resource Hub
Apps to try:
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Smiling Mind: Easy mindfulness to try during your day
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MindShift: Assisting with managing anxiety
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101 Revolutionary ways to be healthy: skills & info to make healthy choices.
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Teenagers with experience: For mental health, sexuality & gender
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Happify: Games to ease stress and worry
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Calm Harm: tasks to help manage the urge or action of self harm
Sites and Services:
Head to health: headtohealth.gov.au/
Youth beyond blue:youthbeyondblue.com
Genderbread Person :genderbread.org/
Relationship Things (14+): www.relationshipthings.com.au
Butterfly Foundation: www.thebutterflyfoundation.org
Heheadspace: www.eheadspace.org.au
MoodGYM: www.moodgym.com.au
Kids Helpline: www.kidshelpline.com.au
Reach Out: reachout.com.au
Sane Australia: www.sane.org
Local spots to try:
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Killen Falls in Tintenbar
Medium size waterfall and great swimming hole not far from the M1
New research
Jingi Wala! We are very proud of our colleague and brainy sister, Sharman Okan, who has recently achieved 2 incredibly important publications that honour the mobs expertise and knowledge.
Teaching Aboriginal Cultural Competence - Authentic Approaches
Barbara Hill, Jillene Harris, Ruth Bacchus
Chapter 2. Who Are the Experts? Where the ‘Self and the ‘Other’ Meet When Building Relationships with Aboriginal Elders. By Sharman Okan https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-7201-2
Okan, S., & Harris, J. (2020). Walking the line between academic expectations and fulfilling obligations to the mob: qualitative research processes for researching in Australian Aboriginal Contexts. Australian Aboriginal Studies
Journal, 2020/2, 62-73.
Ballina Farmers Market every Sunday Morning near Misshingham Park
Check out Pop Denison Park in Ballina for a BBQ, swim, Bocce, play and more
Angels Beach, Shelly Beach, Broken Head beach, Sharpes Beach are all amazing!
Watch the whales, dolphins and surfers from Boulders Beach headland