Healthtalk Australia mental health resources to be included on Head to Health website
Healthtalk Australia is an online resource dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Australians by harnessing the power of stories, rigorous research methods, and the internet to understand and share experiences of:
- what it’s really like to have a particular health condition or to care for someone with that condition, and
- what is and isn’t working in our health and social care system.
The only research-based digital repository of health experiences in Australia, Healthtalk Australia’s resources provide support and information to other patients and carers, and information to health professionals and health educators.
HASH network members Renata Kokanović, (Healthtalk Australia Director) and Kate Johnston-Ataata (Healthtalk Australia Co-ordinator) learned recently that four of their mental health digital resources on mental health and supported decision-making, mental health and carers’ experiences, depression, and emotional experiences of early parenthood have been approved for inclusion on Head to Health.
Head to Health is a national digital platform providing links to credible, high quality Australian digital and phone supports, resources and treatment options for mental health, and is working towards establishing a national certification framework for digital mental health services.
Currently Healthtalk Australia is one of only 33 organisations nation-wide listed on the Head to Health platform. Testament to the high quality of Healthtalk Australia’s digital repository of health experiences, Healthtalk Australia’s mental health resources received written support and endorsement from key stakeholder and project partner, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services as part of the application process.
