To Live Life to the full: Mental Health in Australia
This year, as we deal with the challenges that COVID-19 has brought to us, to our families and to our friends, the Catholic Bishops Conference is focused on the issue of mental health.
The Bishops acknowledge that while COVID-19 is a physical, social, political and economic threat, it is also putting pressure on people’s mental health. “We want to say clearly that mental ill-health is not a moral failure, the result of a lack of faith, or of a weak will.”
See the full Social Justice statement on Mental Health below, together with other resources:
Australian Catholic Bishops Social Justice Statement 2020
Podcast – The Revolution of Tenderness (by Office for Social Justice, Australia)
Some useful resources:
Mary MacKillop Outreach (Haberfield)
Befriend a person living with mental illness (Vinnies Connect program)
St Vincent's Ashfield Social Justice Group 