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Speaker 1: Mental Health Week is indeed in full swing with a

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Speaker 1: number of top end health professionals recognized with awards. We

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Speaker 1: know that Danilla Dilba, Head to Health Darwin and Catholic

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Speaker 1: Care NT are among those to be honored for their

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Speaker 1: efforts at improving mental health and wellbeing of Territorians. But

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Speaker 1: it's also hoped that locals are going to get involved

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Speaker 1: in events that are planned for the week and have

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Speaker 1: conversations with their mates to reduce the stigma that is

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Speaker 1: attached to mental health. Now joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: to tell us more is Northern Territory Mental Health Coalition

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Speaker 1: CEO Jeff Radford. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, good morning, thanks so much for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much for your time. Now, talk

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Speaker 1: us through some of what is organized for this week.

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Speaker 2: So that the range of activities happening across the top

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Speaker 2: end in Central Australia all this week. There's activities and

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Speaker 2: coach people to get into hobby hobbies, craft being, beating

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Speaker 2: activities in for you that are gardening activity. I'm conducted

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Speaker 2: by CDU. We're really just encouraging people to do the

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Speaker 2: things that they're used to keep themselves well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the real focus of the week, because

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Speaker 1: I think it is such an important thing that we

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Speaker 1: talk about mental health, that we make sure that we

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Speaker 1: break down those barriers that can sometimes be attached to

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Speaker 1: mental health. So what's the focus going to be this week?

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Speaker 2: So the theme for twenty twenty three is celebrating our strengths,

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Speaker 2: calling for us to reflect on things in our lives

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Speaker 2: and committing and communities that we do to keep our

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Speaker 2: mental health and well being and spirits strong. This year,

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Speaker 2: we've conducted a campaign asking people to answer the question

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Speaker 2: what do you do that works for you? Are you

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Speaker 2: able to answer that for me, Katie?

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Speaker 1: Well, for me, well, I think in terms of my

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Speaker 1: mental health, I go running.

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Speaker 2: That's a fantastic thing. And are you running on the

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Speaker 2: treadmill or getting outdoors?

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Speaker 3: I like to get outdoors.

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Speaker 1: I like to, you know, just clear my mind, listen

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Speaker 1: to a bit of music, go for a run, and

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Speaker 1: I find that it gives me a real reset.

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Speaker 2: That's right, all that those things are fantastic and it's

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Speaker 2: great to get out and about because that time in nature,

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Speaker 2: outdoors and breathing in the fresh air of things that

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Speaker 2: also improve our mental health.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me you just said that it is also

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Speaker 1: about celebrating our strengths and speaking of sort of celebrating

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Speaker 1: some of those strengths. So I know that there was

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Speaker 1: a number of award winners. What were they recognized for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So every year we conduct an award ceremony to

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Speaker 2: highlight the fantastic work that's happening in the mental health

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Speaker 2: and well being set to run across the territory. So

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Speaker 2: we had five categories this year and since fantastic award

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Speaker 2: winners as you mentioned. So the one of the programs

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Speaker 2: is an activity that's still living on the Twi Islands

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Speaker 2: and they've done some incredible work to bring in the

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Speaker 2: community leaders to design and lead the work in the

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Speaker 2: communities on the Twi Islands. You also mentioned Danila Dilbert,

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Speaker 2: So they've brought in elders to help develop some new

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Speaker 2: resources to support Aboriginal Entyistrate Island to people and looking

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Speaker 2: after their social emotional wellbeing and the Darwin head To

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Speaker 2: Health Center you might have heard earlier in the year,

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Speaker 2: they've been working with Saint John Ambulance for the ambulance

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Speaker 2: to be able to support people who are experiencing mental

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Speaker 2: distress and bring them straight to their service rather than

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Speaker 2: bring them to emergency.

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Speaker 3: That is really good to hear.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think that they sound like incredibly

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Speaker 1: important programs and I know that there are quite a

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Speaker 1: few people out in the community that do have some

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Speaker 1: mental health concerns and that they want to be able

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Speaker 1: to connect. They want to be able to get that

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Speaker 1: support that they require.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and there's a range of things that people can

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Speaker 2: do if they're needing to reach out to services. We've

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Speaker 2: mentioned that Darwin Head to Health Center, So they're located

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Speaker 2: in Casarina and they're open till ten pm. It's a

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Speaker 2: very friendly and relaxed environment. You can just drop in

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Speaker 2: if you'd like to talk to someone. There's a range

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Speaker 2: of phone numbers and there's one located in the territory

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Speaker 2: called Team Talk and that's run by Territorians and that

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Speaker 2: numbers one, eight hundred, eight three, two six hundred.

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Speaker 3: What can we do as well, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: You know, for a lot of us, we want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we are supportive of those people that

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Speaker 1: be going through a difficult time.

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Speaker 3: What can we sort of do as.

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Speaker 1: Friends and family members if we are trying to look

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Speaker 1: out for somebody who is going through a difficult, difficult situation.

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Speaker 2: So it's to learn the signs of what might what

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Speaker 2: might be happening for people if they're not their usual

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Speaker 2: selves or declining into you know, mental distress. You know,

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Speaker 2: they might be withdrawing, you know, not doing their usual activities.

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Speaker 2: You know, they might not be reaching out, they might

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Speaker 2: going to work as much, they might not be eating

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Speaker 2: well or you know, doing their regular activities. So it's

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Speaker 2: really useful if you can have an accountability buddy, and

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Speaker 2: that's someone that you share. There's few things we talked

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Speaker 2: about to keep ourselves well so that you know, if

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Speaker 2: they do notice those signs, they could just ask you, hey, Katie,

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Speaker 2: have you been doing your usual things? Have you been

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Speaker 2: going out running and getting outdoors?

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Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I reckon, And you know, sometimes we just

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Speaker 1: kind of don't even know where to start, you know,

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Speaker 1: of just making that first step.

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Speaker 2: I guess yeah, absolutely, So you can you can jump

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Speaker 2: online and have a look at some of the resources

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Speaker 2: on head to heelp dot com dot au. There's some

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Speaker 2: really good resources on there that you can have a

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Speaker 2: read of to help you to guide the friends and

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Speaker 2: family and people that we care about, to help us,

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Speaker 2: help us to help them to get the support they need.

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Speaker 1: Good advice, Jeff. I really appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else we should be aware of around

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Speaker 1: Mental Health Week before I let you?

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Speaker 2: Thank Yeah, just to look out on our website for

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Speaker 2: the calendar of activities happening. You can access that at

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Speaker 2: mt MPs dot org. Got a u splash mental Health

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Speaker 2: Week or create your own event you know, any workplace

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Speaker 2: or with some friends and just check in on each

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Speaker 2: other throughout the week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good advice. Jeff Radford, Mental Health. Well, the

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Speaker 1: I should actually say, I was about to call your

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Speaker 1: Mental Health Awareness Week Jeff, the CEO of course.

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Speaker 3: Of Northern Territory Mental Health Coalition. Mate. I really appreciate

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Speaker 3: you having a chat with me today.

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Speaker 2: My pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thanks again, Thank you,