Access free peer support and professional learning tailored to your local needs.
Mental health practitioners in rural and remote communities face unique challenges and barriers to service provision. With this in mind, MHPN tailor the support provided to interdisciplinary practitioner networks in these areas to access free, high-quality professional development and peer support opportunities, which are relevant to the needs of their local community.
A number of networks (shown below) are looking for a locally-based practitioner to volunteer in leading the network, with the support of MHPN.
This volunteer is called a Network Coordinator. With the full support of an MHPN Project Officer, who provides admin and financial support, the Coordinator works with network members to organise meetings that align with the unique needs of service providers in the local area.
If you see a need for local interdisciplinary collaboration in your area and would like to lead one of the networks below, or learn more about what’s involved in being a Coordinator please email the noted MHPN Project Officer.
If there is not a network in your local area listed below and you would like to establish one, please get in touch with networks@mhpn.org.au
Network Coordinator Opportunities:
VICTORIA
Bairnsdale – Yi Zhai
Healesville & Surrounds
Latrobe Valley
Warrnambool
Hamilton
Mildura
Albury Wodonga
Wangaratta & Surrounds
Colac Otway & Surf Coast
Queenscliff – Jeanne Triol
Portland – Trish Clarke
Castlemaine & Surrounds
Bacchus Marsh & Melton
Kilmore & Surrounds
Grampians
Echuca/Moama
Shepparton
NEW SOUTH WALES
Shoalhaven and Surrounds
Broken Hill
Inverell/Glen Innes
Queanbeyan
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Port Augusta
Whyalla
Walaroo
Mount Gambier
Victor Harbour
Port Pirie
Port Lincoln
Berri & Surrounds
QUEENSLAND
Ayr
Bowen
Mackay
Atherton Tablelands
Mount Isa
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Geraldton
Gascoyne region
Karlgoorlie
Kimberley Region
TASMANIA
North Eastern Tasmania
Smithton
Deloraine
North Western Tasmania
Queenstown and Surrounds
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Alice Spring
Katherine
Tennant Creek
