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Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER Queenstown’s Filipino and Brazilian communities and new and expectant parents have been the first to go through free mental health education work shops, which could be rolled out nationally. Southern Wellbeing Trust’s partnering with the national Good Programmes Trust to adapt its ‘GoodYarn’ programme to suit the diverse Whakatipu community. Using seed funding from various organisations and funds, the southern trust’s been training community-based facilitators to deliver the workshops since December. They’re being supported by a clinical team, including a GP and a mental health counsellor. Southern Wellbeing Trust co-founder Anna Dorsey says the workshops help people talk openly about mental health and wellbeing, learn how to recognise symptoms of mental illness and support people experiencing mental distress to access help. ....
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:00 pm An innovative pilot project to support the mental health and resilience of the Queenstown Lakes community now has the chance to become a national model thanks to a new strategic partnership. The Queenstown-based Southern Wellbeing Trust has joined forces with the Good Programmes Trust, national provider of the award-winning, evidence-based mental health education programme “GoodYarn”. Through the strategic partnership, the two Trusts are now working to maximise the potential of a pilot project being run in the Queenstown Lakes community, with a view to creating a model that more communities across New Zealand can access over time. ....
Press Release – Central Lakes Trust Central Lakes Trust (CLT) closes its 20th financial year, 31 March 2021, having granted $9.45 million into the Central Lakes community, the largest amount granted in any one financial year the Trust has operated. Trust chair, Linda Robertson says, … Central Lakes Trust (CLT) closes its 20th financial year, 31 March 2021, having granted $9.45 million into the Central Lakes community, the largest amount granted in any one financial year the Trust has operated. Trust chair, Linda Robertson says, “Prudent investment has allowed CLT to maintain a healthy and growing grants budget. It is however the community members that drive the projects and causes we see across the board table and it is these groups that enable the Trust to meaningfully contribute to charitable causes at the heart of the community’s needs.” ....
Mountain Scene By TRACEY ROXBURGH A new Queenstown charitable trust with a focus on mental health has received a $40,000 funding boost from Central Lakes Trust. The Southern Wellbeing Trust was co-founded in September by local GP Tim Rigg and health communications specialist Anna Dorsey after they saw the pressures Covid was putting on local health and social services. ‘‘We could see first-hand how big a challenge this was going to be for our communities,’’ Dorsey says. ‘‘Not just the risk to our physical health but the far-reaching and ongoing threat to people’s mental health and wellbeing.’’ Trustees are Dorsey, Rigg and Queenstown Medical Centre boss Ashley Light, who have since worked with a team of volunteers to develop new strategies to help prevent mental illness and promote good health across the district, collaborating with local agencies, the community and providers. ....