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NEED: Horsham armed-service veteran Michelle ‘Shelly’ Pedder has joined a call for a 24-hour mental-health centre in Horsham. Her story, page 3.
Crisis centre push G
BY DEAN LAWSON
rowing concern about mental health in the Wimmera has prompted a community push to establish a 24-hour mental-health crisis centre in Horsham.
Rotary clubs and advocacy group Healthy Minds Horsham, in identifying a ‘serious health-service gap’ in the region, have joined forces to tackle the issue.
The partnership has listed creating a crisis centre in Horsham that would provide dedicated support and intervention services to help people trying to cope with depressive and other mental illness as a priority. The project brief is for a crisis centre to be available to anyone at any time and operate as part of, with or alongside, health and service agencies. Partnership representatives Gavin Morrow, Rob Walter and Graham
Gerlach have already discussed the project with Nationals candidate for the Federal seat of Mallee Anne Webster. They plan to lobby and raise it with other politicians and community and business leaders and launch a money-raising project with scope and expectations similar to Horsham’s recently completed Wimmera Cancer Centre. Healthy Minds spokesman Gavin
Morrow said the Wimmera needed a dedicated and targeted way of dealing with the unpredictability of mental illness and the ever-constant threat of suicide. “As a community we can’t afford to accept this,” he said. “Suicide rates across regional Australia are too high and we must be prepared to offer immediate help to people. “One of the things we’ve talked
about with politicians is the lack of investment in dealing with what is really an epidemic. “We rightly see a lot of time, money and effort go into tackling the national road toll. “The number of Australian deaths from suicide is more than five times higher and attracts nowhere near the same amount of attention.” Continued page 3
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