✍ NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE In this new piece, Michael Elwan shared a powerful reflections from the frontlines of mental health. Please read Michael’s writer-in-residence series with awareness and care. Read the full piece here: go.unimelb.edu.au/47x2

We’re excited to share our latest Quick Guide from our Co-Design Living Labs Network! 📖 Explore the guide here: simplebooklet.com/qgbibb2025 👓 Explore the research article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Michael Elwan shared a powerful reflection on migration, masculinity, and the emotional weight men carry when rebuilding their lives in a new country. go.unimelb.edu.au/4n62 Congratulations Michael for the 2025 AASW National Social Worker of the Year at the National Excellence Awards!

NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE We’re proud to share the first piece from Ailsa Rayner: “The Politics of Who Gets Paid to Speak”. Read it now 👉 alivenetwork.com.au/the-politics...

Congratulations to our 2025 Next Generation Researcher Network Capacity Building Funding Scheme recipients: Kirsten Hillman (University of Melbourne) Melissa Opozda (Flinders University) and Caroline Walters (Monash University)! We look forward to seeing your iprojects take shape🪴

Our latest Lost in Translation Zine is here! In this Spring 2025 edition, you'll find highlights from our five-year impact story (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4r...), celebrating the voices, partnerships, and communities shaping the ALIVE National Centre. alivenetwork.com.au/lost-in-tran...

NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PIECE! ✍️ This new series is written from lived experience. It includes personal reflections on illness, loss, and caregiving. Please read Michael Elwan’s “A Son After Suicide: Lessons in Silence” with awareness and care. alivenetwork.com.au/a-son-after-...

🔔 Final call to register for tomorrow’s ALIVE Virtual Café! “From Prototype to Practice: Translating Community-Made Essentials into Wellbeing” Hear from Benjamin Knight and Nicholas Marchesi OAM as they discuss the Goods. Project. Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/r5qp

NEW WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES STARTING NOW! ✍️
 This new series is written from lived experience. It includes personal reflections on illness, loss, and caregiving. Please read Michael Elwan’s new series with awareness and care. alivenetwork.com.au/the-boy-who-...

Yesterday, our Co-Director Professor Michelle Banfield joined ABC Radio Canberra’s Sunday Brunch to talk about how Safe Havens are being used and the difference they can make in people’s lives. You can listen to Michelle’s full interview from minute 36:07 to 47:54: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Connecting with community means listening, partnering, and working together for change. Whose Care…? Our Care! is about connection within and across communities, services, and ensuring that lived-experience drives the formation of strong ecosystems.   #WorldMentalHealthDay #ConnectWithYourCommunity

In this World Mental Health Month, we want to highlight the A-Part of the Crowd, responding to the growing issue of loneliness among young people (aged 18-25) during life transitions. alivenetwork.com.au/community-cr.... Together, we can turn stories of loneliness into pathways for connection.

This year’s theme from one of our partners at Mental Health Australia is “Connect with your community.” Connecting with the people and places where we feel safe, seen, and heard helps us feel supported.

How can #communitymade essentials improve #wellbeing? 🌱 Join Benjamin Knight and Nicholas Marchesi on Thursday 30th October 1pm AEDT for their ALIVE virtual cafe talk: From Prototype to Practice: Translating Community-Made Essentials into Wellbeing Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/r5qp

There are still two opportunities open for Carer, Family and Kinship group members supporting someone with lived-experience of mental ill-health: 1️⃣ Emotion Mapping - 30-45 min activity. Email [email protected]. 2️⃣ Public Co-Design Sessions -Register here go.unimelb.edu.au/kb9p

New paper published! This paper presents the co-design processes for the conceptual design of a model of care for the Southern Melbourne Children’s Health and Wellbeing Local.   Read the full paper here: go.unimelb.edu.au/8z3p

Are you a #Carer, #Family or #Kinship group member supporting someone with #livedexperience of mental ill-health? Join public #codesign sessions to co-create actions for #change! Click here to register: go.unimelb.edu.au/kb9p

Coming up next Thursday 25th September 2025 at 6pm – 7pm (AEST), Dr Veenu Gupta and Tanya Mackay will be speaking on the topic The SUNRISE Mental Health Study: Searching, Unpacking and Naming Research Into Subjective Experiences Research! Register here to join the conversation go.unimelb.edu.au/zd3p

We write today with heavy hearts as we collectively process the actions taken by some over the weekend in Australia. In this moment, we turn to the core values of the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation. From the Co-Directors for our Communities

Are you a #Carer, #Family or #Kinship group member of someone with mental ill-health? We want to hear #whatmatters to you through and online Emotion Mapping activity. Email [email protected] to receive a private link to an interactive emotion mapping board. #mentalhealth #livedexperience

Communities, final call to register! 👇 👇 👇 Come along and hear from Jean Paul about two important projects- The Village Project (on supporting children and #families where parents have mental ill-health) and Healthy Minds (strengthening #perinatalmentalhealth infant #mentalhealth care.)

Thank you to everyone who came along to today's Funding Galaxy Q&A event on the Totality of Partnerships. There were such important conversations had about forming #partnerships from our diverse expert panel. Updated guidebook coming soon! simplebooklet.com/ngrnfundingg... #mentalhealthresearch

Communities, join us on Thursday 28th August at 1pm AEST as we hear from Jean Paul on "Co-designing #community support for #families to strengthen mental #wellbeing, examples from two #research projects based in Austria." Register here 🔗 : www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-alive-...

Have you ever wondered how meaningful research partnerships across the #mentalhealth sector are built & sustained - and how can you write these into your grant applications? Join us next week and hear from the experts at this years Funding Galaxy Q&A! Register here 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/6dwp

August 4-10 is Loneliness Awareness Week. In one of our projects, A-Part of the Crowd, young people have been sharing their real experiences of loneliness during life's big changes. More about the A-Part of the Crowd: alivenetwork.com.au/our-projects... #MomentsMatter #LonelinessAwarenessWeekAU

Communities, we are pleased to announce that the next #Funding Galaxy Q&A panel event will be held on Thursday August 21st 2025. The topic this year is the Totality of #partnerships and will cover how to build meaningful and lasting #ResearchPartnerships. 🔗 Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/6dwp

Our Lost in Translation – Autumn 2025 zine is here ✨ This special issue dives into the 2025 Holistic Transitions Symposium held on beautiful Arrernte Country in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), co-hosted with our amazing research partners, Children's Ground. Read now: alivenetwork.com.au/lost-in-tran...

This NAIDOC Week we celebrate 50 years of a movement that continues to grow, carried by the strength of community, the vision of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the legacy of those who came before us. Together we step forward, grounded in legacy and an invitation to walk together.

Our Year in Review is here! See the highlights, milestones, and the work that shaped our year from March 2024 - March 2025. #YearInReview #LivedExperienceLeadership #ImpactReport #OurJourneyTogether

New Quick Guide released 👏 alivenetwork.com.au/our-research... This guide provides a lay summary of the strategy for growing the strengths of mental health researchers within the ALIVE National Centre Next Generation Researcher Network and Lived-Experience Research Collective.

For Naarm (Melbourne) based folks there is an opportunity to come along tomorrow (Thursday 12th June) at 5.30pm at the Fritz Loewe Theatre to hear from the amazing ANKA arts cultural leaders. Read more about ANKA: anka.org.au/about/who-we... Come to the lecture and celebrate the amazing artworks.

☕ Join us for the next Virtual Café - "Reclaiming Indigenous ways for the future of Indigenous infant and early childhood #mentalhealth" with Meenakshi Richardson, Cary Waubanascum & Sara Waters. 🗓️ Thursday, 26 June 2025 at 9am-10am (AEST) 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-alive-...

Wonderful hearing from Prof James Smith today about Men's #mentalhealth and #wellbeing in Australia, which makes up part of an important stream of work in the Casting the Net for What Matters and for Whom Consortium. We look forward to the exciting work to come as part of the Consortium and beyond🌟

This National Reconciliation Week, we consider how we are Bridging Now to Next. It means listening deeply, standing with, and walking forward together in ways that honour truth, sovereignty and community-led future. This is a time for growth, determination and commitment to walking together.

We are delighted to welcome Michael Elwan and Ailsa Rayner to the ALIVE National Writer-in-Residence Program 📣 Follow along as Michael and Ailsa share their insights, stories, and visions for transformation. We can’t wait to see what they create 🌿✍️ alivenetwork.com.au/the-alive-na...

What have we been up to in the A-Part of the Crowd project? If you are 18-25 and would like to share your story about loneliness, head to linktr.ee/apartofthecrowd or share it with your networks! #YouthVoice #LonelinessResearch #ApartOfTheCrowd #MentalHealth #LifeTransitions

☕ Join us with Prof James Smith from Flinders University. This talk will unpack why men's perceived ambivalence towards seeking help is insufficient to explain current mental health patterns. 🔗 Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/u68p

🎉 Big News! 🎉   The ALIVE National Centre is thrilled to announce being funded until 2030 to lead the Casting the Net for What Matters Consortium for equitable wellbeing and mental health system transformation. Read more about this major achievement here: www.linkedin.com/posts/the-al...

This time last month, we were in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) for the ALIVE National Centre Annual Symposium. 🎥 Rewatch the graphic recordings by Sarah Cook to revisit the core content covered: youtu.be/WxvtZqCehkI

We are looking for 5-8 mental health practitioners to attend a workshop and give feedback about a new practitioner self-reflection tool. Read more and sign up via the following link: go.unimelb.edu.au/j7ip

Day 3 of the ALIVE National Symposium was wrapped up beautifully first with Phil Orcher sharing his story and Bigaagarri and then with the NPY Women's Council sharing Punu Mirritjanu Warngkaringu (the dead tree comes alive). Photographed also an engagement wall from Coolamon Creative from Day 2 .✨

Day 2 of the 2025 ALIVE National Centre Symposium is all about the "Whose Care?...Our Care!" project. Hearing so many great ideas through the interactive workshops. Looking forward to whats to come in the next 5 years reducing structural #inequalities in #priority populations.

Today's afternoon session was on #research partnerships aimed at reducing structural #inequalities. Thanks to our reflective panel for talking us through their incredible initiatives⭐

What an inspiring start to the day with an interactive talk from Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe- Children's Ground on their wonderful work, and an overview of the ALIVE National Centre's journey so far. Thank you to everyone who is here both in person in Mparntwe and online.

Communities, today we are at Araluan ArtsCentre in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and have just kicked off the ALIVE National Centre 2025 Annual Symposium! Today is hybrid- so great to see everyone online and in-person. Join now if you havent already! #Mentalhealth #research #symposium #livedexperience

Today, we stand with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities advocating for health equity and closing the life expectancy gap. Closing the gap means listening, learning, and taking action to ensure everyone has access to the care and support they deserve. #CloseTheGap #HealthEquity

A big thank you to everyone who attended the third Annual ALIVE National Centre e-networking event! We loved seeing you all and hearing all your bright ideas in the world cafe for implementing meaningful change in #MentalHealth systems. ... Next stop ALIVE National Centre Annual Symposium 🌟

We are pleased to share the release of the ALIVE National Centre Phase 3 Consensus Statement The Middle Horizon 2025: Implementation Actions for Pathways of People aged 16-25 years old​! midd.me/kP5s

Hello communities 👋 👋👋 If you haven't yet registered for this years e-networking event there's still time! Join us and connect and brainstorm with fellow #mentalhealth #researchers nationwide about how to make meaningful change in mental health systems. 👉 Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/2iz8

Our thoughts go out to those who are impacted by the cyclone. In times like these, communities and support matter more than ever. If you need help, reach out to local support services, check in on loved ones, and take care of yourself. Stay safe and stay strong.