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Subscriber only The Mackay community is backing plans to better support its veteran community with an RSL social club and wellness retreat at Kinchant Dam.
Hub for our Heroes is raising the profile on the ambitious plans to find a place for returned service men and women to call their own while supporting them in civilian life. The campaign, through the Daily Mercury and Courier-Mail, is asking the Mackay region to get behind two projects, one of which is a social and welfare centre in town on the waterfront. The other is a wellness hub at Kinchant Dam that requires state and federal government support, and a feasibility study into the viability of the proposed model.
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Frontline responders are more than twice as likely to be suicidal than other adults.
Their exposure to traumatic and graphic scenes in their roles as paramedics, police officers, firefighters, electrical workers, doctors, nurses and more can be debilitating.
A BeyondBlue survey of more than 21,000 first responders found more than one in four experienced probable post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition impacting their lives and that of their families.
Plans that would make Mackay a revolutionary health and wellness hub for veterans and first responders to treat post-traumatic stress are progressing through a partnership with PTSD Frontline and ReNew Mackay, a locally-led private consortium.
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