Mental Health For Mob
Donation protected
My name is Kristen. I am a Ngunnawal and Dharawal Woman. I live on my ancestral Country, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country here in Kamberri (Canberra).
I have strong connections with my community. I love my community.
I am an Aboriginal Registered Mental Health Nurse who holds a Bachelor of Nursing, Post-Graduate qualification in managing youth mental health, suicide and self-harm, and a Masters in Mental Health specialising in Aboriginal Mental Health and Trauma.
I also hold a range of complementary qualifications in therapies such as dialectical behaviour therapy, emotional resilience, family therapy, play therapy, risk and behavioural disorder interventions, as well as culturally safe interventions and alcohol and other drugs just to name a few.
In addition to the qualifications I hold, I have more than 10 years’ experience in offering psychotherapy and providing therapeutic services for mob and seeing them embark on their journeys.
But we have a problem.
We have no mental health services that are less than 12 month wait and that don’t cost a lot of money.
Statistically, we have the worst mental health issues in so-called Australia, with the highest population in mental health distress and adult prisons because of mental health.
We have mob sent home from emergency departments despite experiencing suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt.
We’re at crisis point, and we must do more to strengthen mob’s mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, to heal.
I have started this campaign to raise funds to establish Mental Health For Mob.
I plan on developing sustainable mental health and social and emotional wellbeing supports for my community here on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, and for mob off Country too.
I love how we have all different mobs, family groups and people living here. I love sharing this part of Country with so many loving mob, and I love that they love Country so much.
While I love supporting my community and my mob, from my own pocket. I self-fund the support that I provide. I want to continue to offer my support and knowledge for free. I want to be able to provide mob with not only my time but also practical and needed therapeutic resources. I want to be able to pay for more therapeutic tools.
I volunteer my time after hours and it’s getting more difficult to sustain as my caseloads increase.
I will never charge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community for my time, knowledge and other expenses.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples deserve to have timely access to culturally safe mental health and social and emotional wellbeing support.
I really want to keep doing this outside my work hours, helping young people and their families who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander with mental health and social and emotional wellbeing needs. Support, psychological intervention and also being able to have a culturally safe space to recover or heal shouldn’t be a privilege. It should be a basic human right.
Please help me support my community directly, and to support mob online from other parts of Country with Zoom appointments and referrals for support.
All money donated to my campaign will be going to set Mental Health for Mob up so that I can apply for grants, and other funding opportunities. I need your help to support my mob here on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country to heal.
Instagram: @mentalhealthformob
Website: www.mentalhealthformob.org
I have strong connections with my community. I love my community.
I am an Aboriginal Registered Mental Health Nurse who holds a Bachelor of Nursing, Post-Graduate qualification in managing youth mental health, suicide and self-harm, and a Masters in Mental Health specialising in Aboriginal Mental Health and Trauma.
I also hold a range of complementary qualifications in therapies such as dialectical behaviour therapy, emotional resilience, family therapy, play therapy, risk and behavioural disorder interventions, as well as culturally safe interventions and alcohol and other drugs just to name a few.
In addition to the qualifications I hold, I have more than 10 years’ experience in offering psychotherapy and providing therapeutic services for mob and seeing them embark on their journeys.
But we have a problem.
We have no mental health services that are less than 12 month wait and that don’t cost a lot of money.
Statistically, we have the worst mental health issues in so-called Australia, with the highest population in mental health distress and adult prisons because of mental health.
We have mob sent home from emergency departments despite experiencing suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt.
We’re at crisis point, and we must do more to strengthen mob’s mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, to heal.
I have started this campaign to raise funds to establish Mental Health For Mob.
I plan on developing sustainable mental health and social and emotional wellbeing supports for my community here on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, and for mob off Country too.
I love how we have all different mobs, family groups and people living here. I love sharing this part of Country with so many loving mob, and I love that they love Country so much.
While I love supporting my community and my mob, from my own pocket. I self-fund the support that I provide. I want to continue to offer my support and knowledge for free. I want to be able to provide mob with not only my time but also practical and needed therapeutic resources. I want to be able to pay for more therapeutic tools.
I volunteer my time after hours and it’s getting more difficult to sustain as my caseloads increase.
I will never charge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community for my time, knowledge and other expenses.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples deserve to have timely access to culturally safe mental health and social and emotional wellbeing support.
I really want to keep doing this outside my work hours, helping young people and their families who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander with mental health and social and emotional wellbeing needs. Support, psychological intervention and also being able to have a culturally safe space to recover or heal shouldn’t be a privilege. It should be a basic human right.
Please help me support my community directly, and to support mob online from other parts of Country with Zoom appointments and referrals for support.
All money donated to my campaign will be going to set Mental Health for Mob up so that I can apply for grants, and other funding opportunities. I need your help to support my mob here on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country to heal.
Instagram: @mentalhealthformob
Website: www.mentalhealthformob.org
Organizer
Kristen Franks
Organizer
Canberra, ACT